release-readiness

release-readiness is a skill for Claude Code from rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer. It costs 128 tokens per session (2,571 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An evidence-based release decision that rates readiness as green, amber, or red and states whether to proceed. It also records unresolved risks and unknowns for formal approval discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before go-live, at a change advisory board or stage gate, or whenever a team needs a defensible recommendation about shipping.
Why use it?
It prevents release decisions from relying only on confidence or seniority. Known gaps remain visible instead of being hidden behind a simple yes or no.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fde-core plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before go-live, at a change advisory board or stage gate, or whenever a team needs a defensible recommendation about shipping.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/release-readiness
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 rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer --skill release-readiness
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fde-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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 release-readiness

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/release-readiness"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/release-readiness.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 128 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,571 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 $0.00128 $0.02571
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.01286
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00257

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5687352be047, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-readiness 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 8d 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.

fde-core/skills/release-readiness/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release readiness

Turning accumulated evidence into a defensible go/no-go.

Why this exists

Release decisions in large organizations are usually made on vibes and seniority. Someone asks whether we're ready, the people closest to the work say they think so, and the residual uncertainty — which is real, and which someone privately knows about — never makes it into the room.

Then it fails, and the post-incident review discovers that three people each knew one piece of it.

This skill exists to make the uncertainty explicit at the moment the decision is made. Its distinguishing property is that it refuses to launder uncertainty. A recommendation of "go" with three unverified items says so, in the recommendation, where the approver reads it. That's what makes it worth anything: an assessment that always says yes carries no information.

It also happens to be the fastest way for an FDE to build trust. An engineer who says "no, and here's exactly what's missing" once is believed when they say yes.

When this applies

  • Approaching go-live on anything non-trivial
  • A CAB, stage gate, or formal approval is required
  • "Are we ready to ship?"
  • You think the answer is no and need the reasoning to survive scrutiny
  • A release decision is being made and nobody has assembled the evidence

When it doesn't

  • Routine low-risk deploys in a mature pipeline — don't add ceremony to a well-managed process
  • Emergency mitigation during an incident, where the calculus is different and explicit
  • You have no evidence to assemble. Then the honest output is "we can't assess this yet, and here's what's needed" — which is itself a legitimate and useful finding.

Prerequisites

This skill gathers; it doesn't re-derive. It reads:

Artifact Provides
03-requirements.md The acceptance criteria being claimed
07-verification.md Which criteria have evidence, and the gap list
06-blast-radius-*.md Who and what is exposed
03b-nfrs.md Performance, security, compliance obligations
06b-change-log.md What actually shipped, flags, rollback notes
runbooks/deploy-*.md The deploy and rollback procedure

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 8d ago First seen · 198 lines · 128 tokens per session scan A 5687352be047

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release-readiness is a skill published in the GitHub repository rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer (6 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 128 tokens to every session and 2,571 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.