release-plugin

release-plugin is a skill for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 22 tokens per session (779 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow that copies skills, agents, scripts, and their supporting files into plugin directories according to a mapping file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to package a plugin release and increase its patch, minor, or major version.
Why use it?
It reduces manual copying and helps keep released plugin contents aligned with the source files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the sdlc-core plugin — 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to package a plugin release and increase its patch, minor, or major version.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices
Claude Code
/plugin install sdlc-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 779 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 $0.00022 $0.00779
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00390
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00078

Measured 8d ago against content hash d237c37f0ed0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-plugin 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 8d 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.

plugins/sdlc-core/skills/release-plugin/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Plugin

Package source files into plugin directories based on release-mapping.yaml.

Arguments

  • patch — Bump patch version (0.1.0 → 0.1.1). Default if no argument.
  • minor — Bump minor version (0.1.0 → 0.2.0).
  • major — Bump major version (0.1.0 → 1.0.0).

Steps

  1. Read release-mapping.yaml from the repository root. This file defines which source files map to which plugin directories.

  2. For each plugin in the mapping, process each component type:

    Skills — for each skill entry:

    • Read the source file (e.g., skills/validate/SKILL.md)
    • Determine the destination path in the plugin: plugins/<plugin>/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md
    • The skill directory name comes from the source path (e.g., skills/validate/SKILL.mdskills/validate/SKILL.md)
    • Copy the file, preserving directory structure
    • For skills with supporting files (templates, references), copy the entire skill directory

    Agents — for each agent entry:

    • Read the source file (e.g., agents/core/sdlc-enforcer.md)
    • Copy to plugins/<plugin>/agents/<filename>

    Scripts — for each script entry:

    • Read the source file (e.g., plugins/sdlc-core/scripts/session-banner.sh)
    • Copy to plugins/<plugin>/scripts/<filename>
    • The validation pipeline itself runs through the validate skill, not via wrapper scripts. Only hook-invoked scripts (e.g., session-banner.sh, check-tmp-usage.py) belong here.

    Hooks — hooks are plugin-native, no copy needed (they reference ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT})

  3. Bump version in each non-stub plugin's plugin.json:

    • Read the current version from .claude-plugin/plugin.json
    • Apply the version bump (patch/minor/major)
    • Write the updated version back
    • Also update the version in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (at the repo root) for this plugin
  4. Validate the result:

    • Verify every source file in the mapping exists
    • Verify every destination file was written
    • Check that plugin.json is valid JSON for each plugin
    • Report any missing source files as errors

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 8d ago First seen · 73 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A d237c37f0ed0

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release-plugin is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 779 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.