A release workflow for the zaxy-memory project that updates its version, records changes, merges the code, and publishes it to PyPI, the Python package repository.

Use it to ship a new zaxy-memory version, prepare its changelog and pull request, watch CI checks, create a GitHub Release, and verify the PyPI publication.

It removes the need to remember each release step and helps prevent mismatched versions, skipped checks, or publishing the wrong code.

How syndicalt/zaxy configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to syndicalt/zaxy. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syndicalt/zaxy/master/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/syndicalt/zaxy

Made for: Claude Code.

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/syndicalt/zaxy/release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/syndicalt/zaxy/release)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/syndicalt/zaxy/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/syndicalt/zaxy/release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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/syndicalt/zaxy/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/syndicalt/zaxy/release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,189 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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	$0.00084	$0.01189
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00476
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00238
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00119

Measured 2mo ago against content hash de9acccd3921, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

release scanned grade C with 2 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 2mo 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/zaxy-memory/X.Y.Z/json | python -c "import sys,json;print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])"

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/zaxy-memory/X.Y.Z/json | python -c "import sys,json;print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])"

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release zaxy-memory

Publishing is irreversible. Two hard gates in this flow require an explicit user go: creating the GitHub Release (step 7) is the only one that publishes.

0. Decide the version

Patch = fixes only. Minor = features/CLI surface changes. Any Breaking entry (even a disclosed one) still fits minor pre-1.0-style per this repo's history (3.1.0 broke export). Confirm choice with the user if mixed.

1. Preflight

cd <repo> && git checkout master && git pull -q origin master
git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no   # must be empty
git log --oneline -3

Working tree must be clean. Untracked scratch (reports dirs, .claude/) stays out.
Identify what's shipping: git log v<PREV>..HEAD --oneline.

2. Bump the version — THREE fields, not one

grep -n '<OLD_VERSION>' pyproject.toml server.json

Edit all of:

pyproject.toml → version = "X.Y.Z"
server.json top-level "version"
server.json → packages[0].version ← the one that historically gets missed

Re-grep for the old version in both files; zero hits or you're not done.

3. CHANGELOG

Add/finalize ## X.Y.Z - YYYY-MM-DD at the top (rename ## Unreleased if present). Keep-a-Changelog categories (### Added/Changed/Deprecated/Breaking/Fixed), bold-lead bullets, candid tone. Breaking changes get a migration line.

4. Release PR

git checkout -b release/X.Y.Z
git add pyproject.toml server.json CHANGELOG.md
git commit  # "release: X.Y.Z — <em-dash summary>" + body + Co-Authored-By trailer
git push -u origin release/X.Y.Z
gh pr create --base master --title "release: X.Y.Z — <summary>" --body "<what it bundles>"
gh pr checks <N> --watch --interval 30

All checks must pass. If coverage fails see the ci-triage skill — never lower the floor.

5. Merge (rebase, never squash)

gh pr merge <N> --rebase --delete-branch
git checkout master && git pull -q origin master

6. Verify master CI on the EXACT merged tip

CI runs are per-SHA — a green "latest" may be the previous tip.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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.

2mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 84 tokens per session scan C de9acccd3921

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository syndicalt/zaxy (17 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,189 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Git and workflow Releases ai ai-agents ai-memory llm-tools

release next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
releasesyndicalt/zaxy	Skill	17	2mo ago	MIT	C	84	Claude Code
version-bumpthedotmack/claude-mem	Skill	114k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	64	Claude Code
childhoodthedotmack/claude-mem	Skill	114k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	49	Claude Code
build-and-releasethedotmack/claude-mem	Skill	114k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	13	Claude Code
releasethedotmack/claude-mem	Skill	114k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	13	Claude Code
pre-publishEmpiricaAI/empirica	Skill	255	yesterday	MIT	A	101	Claude Code
changelog-styleGrinv/steam-games-mcp	Skill	5	yesterday	MIT	A	50	Claude Code, Codex

zaxy: Skill for Claude Code