macos-release

macos-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from recomposesh/recompose. It costs 132 tokens per session (1,941 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of macos-release, MIT.

A release process for distributing a native macOS app through GitHub Releases, including DMG installers and Sparkle update feeds. A DMG is a downloadable Mac disk image, while Sparkle enables updates outside the Mac App Store.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating signed DMG files, notarizing apps, updating Sparkle appcast files, and publishing releases on GitHub.
Why use it?
It organizes versioning, signing, notarization, packaging, and publishing so a finished app can be delivered and updated.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/recomposesh/recompose/macos-release
Any agent
npx skills add recomposesh/recompose --skill macos-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/recomposesh/recompose

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 132 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00132 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00194

Measured 4d ago against content hash fdff88b7e569, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-release scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to macos-release — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/macos-release/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release macOS App

This skill covers the full release pipeline for distributing a native macOS app outside the Mac App Store via GitHub Releases with Sparkle auto-update support.

Release Pipeline Overview

Bump version → Archive → Notarize → Export → Create DMG → Sign DMG → Update appcast.xml → Git push → GitHub Release

Prerequisites

The user needs these tools installed:

Tool Install Purpose
create-dmg brew install create-dmg Creates the DMG installer
gh brew install gh Creates GitHub releases
git Built-in Pushes appcast changes
Sparkle sign_update Built automatically when the project is built with Sparkle EdDSA-signs the DMG

The sign_update binary lives in DerivedData after building the project in Xcode:

find ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData -name "sign_update" -type f 2>/dev/null | head -1

Step-by-Step Release Guide

1. Bump Version Numbers

In Xcode, update:

  • MARKETING_VERSION (e.g., 1.2) -- the user-facing version
  • CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION (e.g., 5) -- the build number (must be unique per release)

Or via command line:

# Check current values
grep -E "MARKETING_VERSION|CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION" YourApp.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj | head -4

2. Archive in Xcode

Product > Archive. This creates a release build with the proper signing identity.

3. Notarize and Export

In the Archives organizer:

  1. Select the archive > Distribute App
  2. Choose "Direct Distribution" (or "Developer ID" for notarization)
  3. Wait for notarization to complete
  4. Export to ~/Downloads/YourApp.app

4. Create DMG

create-dmg \
  --volname "YourApp" \
  --window-pos 200 120 \
  --window-size 660 400 \
  --icon-size 160 \
  --icon "YourApp.app" 180 170 \
  --app-drop-link 480 170 \
  --hide-extension "YourApp.app" \
  ~/Downloads/YourApp.dmg \
  ~/Downloads/YourApp.app

5. Sign DMG with Sparkle

/path/to/sign_update ~/Downloads/YourApp.dmg

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 224 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A fdff88b7e569

Subscribe to this mod's changes

macos-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository recomposesh/recompose (27 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to macos-release, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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