vale-ai-tells: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

release is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/vale-ai-tells. It costs 73 tokens per session (913 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release workflow for the vale-ai-tells repository. A release is a prepared version that is tagged and published for others to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when releasing, tagging, or publishing a version of this repository, including updating its changelog and waiting for the workflow that publishes three ZIP files.
Why use it?
It puts version checks, changelog updates, package-pin updates, commits, tagging, and publication into one defined process. It also refuses to start when the repository is not clean or is not on the main branch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is tbhb/vale-ai-tells's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vale-ai-tells itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vale-ai-tells configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tbhb/vale-ai-tells. 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/tbhb/vale-ai-tells/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells

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.

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README.md
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for release

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 913 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 19
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00073 $0.00913
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00091

Measured 10d ago against content hash 127e700e6444, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Perform a full release for version $ARGUMENTS.

1. Pre-flight

  • Run git status. Working directory must show no changes and stay on main.
  • Run git log --oneline -3. Confirm the tip commit matches what you want tagged.
  • Check version format: must match vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
  • Get the previous version tag for use in step 4: git tag --sort=-version:refname | grep "^v" | head -1

2. Update CHANGELOG.md

Read CHANGELOG.md and make these edits:

  1. Replace ## [Unreleased] with ## [$ARGUMENTS_NO_V] - YYYY-MM-DD, using today's date. The heading uses the version without the leading v to match the existing convention and to match the link reference added in step 3 (rumdl will report MD053 Unused link/image reference if the two get out of sync).
  2. Insert a new empty ## [Unreleased] section before it
  3. Add a comparison link at the bottom of the file, before the current top link: [$ARGUMENTS_NO_V]: https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells/compare/PREV_TAG...$ARGUMENTS where PREV_TAG refers to the tag found in step 1 and ARGUMENTS_NO_V strips the leading v

Writing CHANGELOG entries: Metacommentary uses scope: raw, which bypasses <!-- vale off --> inline suppression. Don't quote literal trigger phrases from that rule (the Let's [verb] patterns) in the CHANGELOG. Paraphrase them instead, as in v1.4.0.

3. Update README.md

The release workflow builds three packages at every tag (ai-tells.zip, ai-tells-commits.zip, ai-tells-experimental.zip). Bump the version in every releases/download/vX.Y.Z/... URL in the README so all package references point at the new tag.

Use grep -n "releases/download" README.md to enumerate every occurrence before editing.

4. Pre-commit checks

Run:

  • mise run repotools:lint-yaml: confirm any new YAML files pass
  • mise run test-clean: confirm false positives file remains clean

5. Commit

Invoke the commit skill, telling it to stage CHANGELOG.md and README.md and nothing else, and to use chore: release $ARGUMENTS as the subject. That skill owns the COMMIT_AGENTMSG draft, the Assisted-by and Signed-off-by trailers the commit-trailers hook requires, and the gates. A hand-written git commit here fails that hook, since a bare subject carries no trailers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. 10d ago First seen · 69 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 127e700e6444

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/vale-ai-tells (91 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 913 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.