chisel-releases

chisel-releases is a skill for Claude Code from rockcrafters/mason. It costs 102 tokens per session (816 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for writing or reviewing Chisel slice definition files, which describe command-based software changes in a portable format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, test, review, lint, or scaffold Chisel slices in the canonical/chisel-releases repository.
Why use it?
It provides a shared process for checking these files and their tests across several coding agents.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the mason plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, test, review, lint, or scaffold Chisel slices in the canonical/chisel-releases repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rockcrafters/mason/chisel-releases
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 rockcrafters/mason --skill chisel-releases
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rockcrafters/mason

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mason, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for chisel-releases

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 816 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.
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 $0.00102 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00082

Measured 7d ago against content hash b91804cb6d9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chisel-releases 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (scripts/check-diff.py, scripts/check-slice.py, scripts/check-test.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

mason/skills/chisel-releases/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

chisel-releases

Cross-agent skill for working on canonical/chisel-releases. Self-contained: the same skill directory drives claude code, pi, opencode, copilot, and codex.

Where things live

You work inside a checkout of canonical/chisel-releases -- your current working directory. Every repo path you read or write -- slices/<pkg>.yaml, tests/spread/..., chisel.yaml, sibling SDFs -- is relative to this checkout, exactly as written.

Paths below (commands/, shared/, scripts/, schemas/) are relative to this skill's own directory instead -- the one holding this SKILL.md. They are read-only.

Layout

  • commands/ -- command workflows: markdown to read and follow, not executable scripts
  • shared/CHISEL.md -- reference (format, branch model, schema versions, naming, sources of truth). NOTE: in the mason source repo this file lives at mason/_shared/CHISEL.md; the installer materialises it here.
  • scripts/ -- runnable helpers: orientation, deb-list.py (inspect a .deb; --sdf emits a draft SDF), try-cut, scaffold-test.py (emit a spread test skeleton), check-slice.py (deterministic SDF linter), check-test.py (binary test-coverage check), check-diff.py (append-only regression check), review-diff.py (runs all three over a PR diff)
  • schemas/commands.manifest.yaml -- command index (name -> file)

Orient first

Before anything else, run scripts/orientation [<package>]. It prints -- deterministically -- your working dir, this skill's own dir, the target release

  • manifest format parsed from chisel.yaml, and which tools are available here (chisel, dpkg-deb, spread, uv, ...) so you know upfront what you can run. Treat its output as ground truth; don't infer any of it. Then read shared/CHISEL.md for format and conventions.

Commands

write-slice and review-slice are not standalone slash commands -- only /chisel-releases is registered. select a command from the invocation:

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 7d ago First seen · 55 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A b91804cb6d9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chisel-releases is a skill published in the GitHub repository rockcrafters/mason (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.