socket-release

A setup and release workflow for publishing software through npm, crates.io, GitHub Releases, and a Homebrew tap.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the release kit, configure trusted publishers and GitHub environments, add release channels, publish staged artifacts, or verify an existing setup.
Why use it?
It organizes release configuration and keeps public publishing behind verification, staged artifacts, and human approval.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,400 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 $0.00063 $0.01400
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00700
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured yesterday against content hash 9c7e6efc460b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socket-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/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Socket Release Setup

Install the socket-release kit into the current repo and stand publishing up. Everything destructive is dry-run by default; the bootstrap prints the exact next command after every run, and every human moment renders as a 🖐 HUMAN GATE - stop and show it, never improvise around it.

When to Use

  • Standing up publishing in a repo that has never released - reserving the package name, wiring the npm trusted publisher, restricting GitHub environments, and tightening publishing access to staged-only.
  • Adding a new channel (npm, crates.io, GitHub releases, or a Homebrew tap) to a repo that already publishes on the others.
  • Cutting a release once publishing is stood up: stage the artifact, then clear the human-gated approve before anything becomes public.
  • Any time you want the staged-then-approve safety model - a verified, hashed artifact held behind a human gate - instead of a one-shot publish.
  • Recovering or verifying an existing setup: re-run the bootstrap verify to confirm the trusted publisher, environments, and access are still conforming.

Each channel has its own subskill; this top-level skill installs the kit, runs the bootstrap, and points you at the right channel subskill for the actual publish.

Steps

  1. Get the kit source. Shallow-clone sauce to the canonical clone home:

    git clone --depth=1 --single-branch https://github.com/SocketDev/sauce.git ~/.socket/_wheelhouse/repo-clones/SocketDev-sauce
    

    Done when: ~/.socket/_wheelhouse/repo-clones/SocketDev-sauce/release-kit/install.mts exists.

  2. Install the kit. Plan first, then apply with the channels this repo publishes on (npm, crates, github-release, brew):

    node ~/.socket/_wheelhouse/repo-clones/SocketDev-sauce/release-kit/install.mts --target . --channels npm,github-release
    node ~/.socket/_wheelhouse/repo-clones/SocketDev-sauce/release-kit/install.mts --target . --channels npm,github-release --apply
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 124 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 9c7e6efc460b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

socket-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository SocketDev/sauce (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,400 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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