release-codexbar

A release checklist for signed and notarized macOS apps, including apps distributed through Sparkle or Homebrew. It covers versioning, release notes, update feeds, and post-release version changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing macOS app releases, checking changelogs and tags, creating Sparkle update feeds, updating Homebrew casks, and completing post-release version bumps.
Why use it?
It helps avoid missed release steps and keeps signing credentials out of logs and source files.

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/steipete/codexbar/release-codexbar
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/CodexBar --skill release-codexbar
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,574 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 $0.00027 $0.01574
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00787
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash f2a3699e1888, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-codexbar 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/release-codexbar/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CodexBar Release

Use for releasing signed/notarized macOS apps, especially repos with Sparkle appcasts and Homebrew casks.

Start

  1. Work from the app repo unless asked otherwise.
  2. Check repo state, current version, latest tag/release, and release docs/scripts.
  3. Confirm CHANGELOG.md is complete, user-facing, deduped, and dated for the release.
  4. Prefer the repo release script; patch small script/test blockers instead of bypassing the release path.
  5. Never print key material. Keep 1Password references and local key paths as references only.
  6. Load $release-private if it exists before resolving Peter-owned credential locators.

Key Material

Use $one-password for secret handling. op only in tmux/persistent shell; no broad env, set, export -p, or secret scans.

Known App Store Connect shape:

  • fields: private_key_p8, key_id, issuer_id
  • keep all three fields from the same 1Password item; do not mix with stale values from ~/.profile
  • resolve Peter-owned item refs from $release-private

Known Sparkle key:

  • resolve the private key file from $release-private
  • pass as SPARKLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE

Safe env file pattern:

APP_STORE_CONNECT_API_KEY_P8=<1Password ref from release-private>
APP_STORE_CONNECT_KEY_ID=<1Password ref from release-private>
APP_STORE_CONNECT_ISSUER_ID=<1Password ref from release-private>
SPARKLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=<path from release-private>

Run with op run --account my.1password.com --env-file <file> -- <script>, then delete the temp env file.

CodexBar

Paths:

  • repo: ~/Projects/codexbar
  • release script: Scripts/release.sh
  • signing/notarization: Scripts/sign-and-notarize.sh
  • appcast: Scripts/make_appcast.sh, appcast.xml
  • release assets: CodexBar-macos-universal-<version>.zip, CodexBar-macos-universal-<version>.dSYM.zip
  • packaged app: CodexBar.app
  • version file: version.env
  • changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Homebrew tap: ~/Projects/homebrew-tap
  • cask: ~/Projects/homebrew-tap/Casks/codexbar.rb
  • formula: ~/Projects/homebrew-tap/Formula/codexbar.rb
  • CLI release workflow: .github/workflows/release-cli.yml

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 2d ago First seen · 142 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A f2a3699e1888

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-codexbar is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/CodexBar (20,730 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,574 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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