Release instructions for the succinctly Rust package, covering change review, testing, version updates, snapshots, and the automated publishing process.

Use them to prepare a new version, review changes since the last release, run builds and tests, update snapshots, and let CI publish the package.

They reduce release mistakes by making the required checks and versioning steps explicit.

How rust-works/succinctly configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rust-works/succinctly. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-works/succinctly/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rust-works/succinctly

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,133 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Excessive Agency · line 88
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00020	$0.01133
Opus 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00453
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00227
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cab7f4de694d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Skill

Creates releases for the succinctly crate. Triggered by terms like "release", "publish", "new version".

Release Process

IMPORTANT: Do NOT run cargo publish manually. The CI workflow handles crates.io publishing automatically after building binaries for all platforms.

Steps

Gather ALL changes since last release
```
git describe --tags --abbrev=0  # Get last tag (e.g., v0.4.0)
git log v0.4.0..HEAD --oneline --no-merges  # ALL commits, not just recent
```
- Review the FULL list - there may be 50+ commits
- Categorize by: CLI, Performance, Memory, SIMD, Compatibility, Fixes

Run quality checks FIRST

./scripts/build.sh
cargo test --all-features

Bump version in Cargo.toml
- Follow semver: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
- MAJOR: Breaking API changes
- MINOR: New features (backward compatible)
- PATCH: Bug fixes (backward compatible)
- Run cargo check or cargo build to update Cargo.lock with the new version
Update version snapshot (ALWAYS required)
```
grep -r "0\.4\.0" tests/snapshots/  # Find version in snapshots
```
- Update tests/snapshots/cli_golden_tests__version.snap
- This test WILL fail if you skip this step
Update CHANGELOG.md - entries are per-PR fragments in changelog.d/; never hand-edit [Unreleased]
```
python3 scripts/changelog.py check                              # all fragments well-formed
python3 scripts/changelog.py collect --version X.Y.Z --dry-run  # preview, writes nothing
python3 scripts/changelog.py collect --version X.Y.Z            # write the section
```
- collect creates ## [X.Y.Z] - DATE (fragments grouped Added, Changed, Deprecated, Removed, Performance, Fixed, Security), carries any text still under ## [Unreleased] into it verbatim (the pre-fragment legacy text goes out with the first release), updates the comparison links at the bottom, and deletes the consumed fragments
- Review git diff CHANGELOG.md; regroup or reword by user impact only if the release needs it
- Cross-check against git log vPREV..HEAD: a merged PR with no fragment (waived or forgotten) is a missing entry

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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.

1mo ago Changed · +5 lines cab7f4de694d
1mo ago Changed · +5 lines · +20 tokens per session b9a9671ba8cf
2mo ago First seen · 105 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fb4924629ad7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository rust-works/succinctly (52 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 1,133 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Git and workflow Releases

release next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
releaserust-works/succinctly	Skill	52	yesterday	MIT	A	20	Claude Code
release-announcementpaperclipai/paperclip	Skill	111k	yesterday	MIT	A	42	Claude Code, Codex
releasethedotmack/claude-mem	Skill	114k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	13	Claude Code
release-notesphuryn/pm-skills	Skill	28k	8d ago	MIT	A	57	Claude Code
multi-agent-release-managerchromium/chromium	Skill	25k	yesterday	BSD-3-Clause	A	27	Claude Code, Codex
pack-submitaeonfun/aeon	Skill	788	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code, Codex
updater_guidesiddsachar/row-bot	Skill	1.7k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	22	Claude Code, Codex

succinctly: Skill for Claude Code