trace-first-starter: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/tfw-release/SKILL.md

tfw-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from saubakirov/trace-first-starter. It costs 46 tokens per session (256 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release-management skill for projects using Trace-First Workflow, a process that records the reasoning and checks behind changes. It handles version and changelog preparation under the project's release rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a release, update the version and changelog, and verify release requirements without tagging or deploying unless authorized.
Why use it?
Releases can accidentally include unrelated changes or skip required checks. The skill limits the work to approved release files and reports blocked gates before publishing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is saubakirov/trace-first-starter's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on trace-first-starter itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything trace-first-starter configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to saubakirov/trace-first-starter. 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/saubakirov/trace-first-starter/master/.agents/skills/tfw-release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saubakirov/trace-first-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 256 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 $0.00046 $0.00256
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00128
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00051
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00026

Measured today against content hash c38361a6a188, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tfw-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 today.

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.

.agents/skills/tfw-release/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

/tfw-release

This repository skill implements the /tfw-release command.

Contract

  • Treat literal /tfw-release input as a command. Also accept tfw-release and matching natural-language requests.
  • Confirm the repository contains .tfw/; read RELEASE.md only when the project provides it.
  • Resolve the selected project release effect and its authority; do not invent a universal versioning or publication policy.
  • Enforce the Coordinator role lock: permit only the selected release artifacts and explicit project steps; forbid unrelated code changes.
  • Read .tfw/workflows/release.md completely and follow its Read Contract. Root instructions are already active; do not independently preload common files.
  • Do not tag, push, publish, or deploy unless both the workflow and user authorization permit it.
  • Preserve the selected release tree as an isolated complete effect and follow every verification and hard-stop gate.

Report the resolved version, changelog changes, verification results, and blocked gates.

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. today Changed · +1 lines · -1 tokens per session c38361a6a188
  2. yesterday Changed · -1 lines bdf28958b807
  3. 9d ago First seen · 21 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a374d3e9d9f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tfw-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository saubakirov/trace-first-starter (29 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 256 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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