create-release

create-release is a skill for Claude Code from richkuo/rk-skills. It costs 43 tokens per session (2,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for publishing a versioned release on GitHub. A release is a named, downloadable version of a project, usually paired with notes describing its changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update the project version, create an annotated semantic-version tag, and publish GitHub release notes.
Why use it?
It checks that the repository is clean, current, authenticated, and on the default branch before creating a release. It also determines the version increase from the changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the rk-skills plugin — 39 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to update the project version, create an annotated semantic-version tag, and publish GitHub release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richkuo/rk-skills/create-release
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.

Any agent
npx skills add richkuo/rk-skills --skill create-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richkuo/rk-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rk-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 command.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,359 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found 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 5.1 $0.00043 $0.02359
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00944
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00472
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00236

Measured 21d ago against content hash e4a797a6d965, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-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 21d 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.

skills/create-release/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

create-release

Tag a SHA on origin/<default> (annotated semver) and publish a GitHub release with generated notes. The local branch never decides what ships. Never push to the default branch: the version bump and notes entry land through a pull request (PR).

Preconditions: verify ALL before doing anything

gh auth status
git status --porcelain -- . ':(exclude).claude/worktrees'
DEFAULT=$(gh repo view --json defaultBranchRef -q .defaultBranchRef.name)
git fetch origin --tags

gh auth status must succeed. git status --porcelain must print nothing; if the tree is dirty, stop and surface the diff. Every later read uses origin/$DEFAULT. Any failure: stop and tell the user.

Tag-target invariant. The tagged commit must pass git merge-base --is-ancestor <sha> "origin/$DEFAULT" right after a fresh git fetch origin. No confirmation, flag, or caller instruction overrides this. On failure, stop and report the SHA and origin/$DEFAULT.

Steps

  1. Inspect actual tags. Never trust memory or CHANGELOG: git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -10.

  2. Review commits since the last tag: git log <last-tag>..origin/$DEFAULT --oneline; with no semver tag (first release), git log origin/$DEFAULT --oneline.

  3. Determine the semver bump and state the rationale. Breaking = major (never patch), feature = minor, fixes and polish = patch. Proceed without confirmation: the only question is the bump PR merge. Ask about the bump only when its type is genuinely ambiguous (for example, unclear whether commits are breaking). Then git ls-remote --tags origin refs/tags/vX.Y.Z must print nothing. Never force-overwrite a tag that exists locally or on origin: ask the user.

    Previous version. The newest semver tag without its v. With no semver tag, the value all table manifests below agree on; if they disagree or none exists, ask the user (AskUserQuestion) for the first version and treat each manifest version field's value as its previous value. A first release takes X.Y.Z from the user's version, else from that agreed value.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

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. 21d ago Changed e4a797a6d965
  2. 28d ago Changed · -33 lines bae37a1e651c
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 871dbbbd6bf2

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create-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository richkuo/rk-skills (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,359 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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