What is socket-release?

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

Use it to install the release kit, configure trusted publishers and GitHub environments, add release channels, publish staged artifacts, or verify an existing setup.

It organizes release configuration and keeps public publishing behind verification, staged artifacts, and human approval.

socket-release — Skill for Claude Code by SocketDev/sauce

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 SocketDev/sauce --skill socket-release

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SocketDev/sauce

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install socket-release, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-release)

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,408 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00063	$0.01408
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00563
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00282
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00141

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3ca8274db049, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

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

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.

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.

1mo ago Changed 3ca8274db049
1mo ago 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 (3 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,408 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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