github-release

Release instructions for publishing immutable GitHub releases whose versions are already available in the project’s package registry. A release is a fixed, published version of software, while a registry is a package distribution service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating a release with assets, checking registry availability, producing checksum manifests, or repairing a missing Git tag or release.
Why use it?
It prevents GitHub tags or releases from appearing before users can install the matching package version. It also defines the required draft, upload, verification, and checksum steps.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/socketdev/sauce/github-release
Any agent
npx skills add SocketDev/sauce --skill github-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SocketDev/sauce

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 678 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00070 $0.00678
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00339
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00068

Measured yesterday against content hash 3330ccb1a23d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 yesterday.

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/socket-release/github-release/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub release (immutable, registry-gated)

ORDER RULE (non-negotiable): the immutable GitHub release is the FINAL marker of a release. It can only follow a version that already resolves on its registry - never precede one. requireRegistryLive enforces this in every path; the github-release.yml workflow's gate job refuses a pushed tag whose version is not live (registry-liveness-gate.mjs, zero-dep, runs before any install).

Normal path (automatic)

The npm/cargo promote tail cuts the tag + release itself: after node scripts/socket-release/npm-publish.mts --approve promotes and the version resolves live, the engine tags v<version>, pushes the tag, and cuts the release. Nothing to run by hand when that succeeds.

Cutting a release with assets

github-release.mts --release performs the fleet-canonical three-step immutable cut - gh release create --draft --verify-tag → upload assets → gh release edit --draft=false — and writes a checksums.txt manifest (sha1 + sha256 + sha512) alongside the tarball, so the GitHub-release digest stays directly comparable to the npm published shasum:

node scripts/socket-release/github-release.mts --tag vX.Y.Z --release

Never hand-run gh release create without --draft: the release goes immutable the instant it publishes, so assets and checksums must be attached while drafted.

Healing a release gap

A RELEASE GAP is a version public on its registry with the v<version> tag or GitHub release missing. Re-running --approve does NOT heal it (the approve leg drops already-published versions before the tag step). The healer is:

node scripts/socket-release/github-release.mts --tag vX.Y.Z             # dry-run: confirms liveness
node scripts/socket-release/github-release.mts --tag vX.Y.Z --release   # cuts tag + release

It refuses (exit 1) when the version is not live - an unreachable registry is never read as unpublished. From CI, the operator dispatches the github release workflow with tag + release: true from the Actions UI (gh workflow run is guard-blocked for agents - the human clicks; there is no agent lane for the dispatch itself).

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. yesterday First seen · 67 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 3330ccb1a23d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository SocketDev/sauce (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 678 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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