release-manager

release-manager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stark-ai-de/agent-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for preparing and publishing software releases through hosted repository workflows, such as automated jobs run by a code-hosting service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect release setup, record affected components, create a generated release pull request, approve publication, and collect post-release evidence.
Why use it?
It keeps release steps, approvals, version changes, and proof of publication organized without creating releases or tags on the local computer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect release setup, record affected components, create a generated release pull request, approve publication, and collect post-release evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stark-ai-de/agent-skills/release-manager
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 stark-ai-de/agent-skills --skill release-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stark-ai-de/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,149 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00059 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00115

Measured 6d ago against content hash 921988446380, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-manager 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 6d 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.

incubator/skills/repo-maintenance/release-manager/SKILL.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Manager

Goal

Prepare and operate a release through repository-owned hosted workflows without creating local tags or releases.

When to use

  • The user asks to prepare, review, or draft a release.
  • Release setup, component impact, generated version PRs, protected publication, evidence, or OpenAI handoff needs review or execution.

When not to use

  • The user wants a PR review before merge; use pr-review.
  • The user wants a repository-wide maintenance audit; use repo-health-audit.
  • The repository has no explicit hosted release contract; first inspect its native instructions and ADRs.

Inputs

  • Requested command and its exact arguments.
  • Repository release configuration, manifest, component versions, hosted runs, release environment policy, and publication evidence.

Inputs to inspect

  • Inspect the repository-native release:manage surface before selecting a route.
  • Check accepted ADRs, current branch/SHA, release history, component versions, hosted validation, environment policy, and evidence by layer.

Process

  1. Select exactly one supported workflow from the finite set below.
  2. Verify repository identity, protected state, and the requested command's authority.
  3. Run the repository-owned command. Read-only commands need no mutation approval; every hosted dispatch or approval must include --confirm.
  4. Report local, hosted, publication, evidence, and portal state separately.
  5. Stop at the next approval or manual portal boundary.

Workflow

The complete workflow set is:

  • status — read-only release and workflow state.
  • setup-check — read-only App, secret, lifecycle-label, environment, branch, and workflow preflight.
  • impact --kind patch|minor|breaking [--skill <name>] — read-only component-impact guidance.
  • release-pr --confirm — dispatch Release Please to create or update its draft PR.
  • publish-plan [--recovery-release-sha <sha>] --confirm — dispatch the read-only hosted publication plan; the optional full SHA selects guarded pre-publication recovery.
  • publish [--recovery-release-sha <sha>] --confirm — dispatch protected publication and wait for environment approval.
  • approve --run-id <id> [--recovery-release-sha <sha>] --confirm — approve the waiting release environment deployment, repeating the exact recovery SHA when applicable.
  • post-release --tag vX.Y.Z --confirm — dispatch tag-bound evidence on protected main.
  • openai-handoff --tag vX.Y.Z — read-only handoff checklist after verifying the latest three-asset release and a newer successful exact-tag Evidence run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 6d ago Changed · +9 lines 921988446380
  2. 10d ago First seen · 122 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 7e029f1c13df

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release-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository stark-ai-de/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,149 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.