Telepresence is a development tool that connects a local computer to a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster, allowing a locally running service to receive cluster traffic and use the remote environment. Developers use it to test and debug services with their usual tools without repeatedly rebuilding and deploying containers. The catalogue add-ons help operate Telepresence connections and workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to telepresenceio/telepresence. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/release/v2/.claude/skills/prepare-release/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresenceWrote 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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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 | $0.00060 | $0.00690 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00345 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00138 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00069 |
Grade A, and why
prepare-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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
prepare-release
Wraps the make prepare-release step so the local-tag-creation portion of a release is one explicit user action, not a chain of remembered commands. Stops at local tags; the ship-release skill takes over from there.
This is user-only by design (disable-model-invocation: true). The tags this skill creates will eventually drive a public release, so creating them must be an explicit user decision — never a side-effect of Claude inferring intent.
Confirm before doing anything
Ask the user explicitly:
- Version string (
TELEPRESENCE_VERSION) — must be one of:vX.Y.Z-test.N— pre-release, no Homebrew, no "latest"vX.Y.Z-rc.N— pre-release, no Homebrew, no "latest"vX.Y.Z— GA, marked latest, triggers Homebrew update
- Branch — should be a release branch (typically
release/v2). Refuse to proceed frommain-style branches. - Working tree — must be clean. Run
git status; if there are uncommitted or untracked files relevant to the build, stop. - CHANGELOG.yml status — the top entry should have version matching
TELEPRESENCE_VERSION(without the leadingv). If it's stilldate: (TBD), that's expected:make prepare-releasesets the date for GA versions.
Show all four checks to the user before running anything. Wait for explicit "go".
Steps
export TELEPRESENCE_VERSION=vX.Y.Z[-suffix.N]
make prepare-release
This creates:
- An annotated tag
vX.Y.Z[-suffix.N] - An annotated tag
rpc/vX.Y.Z[-suffix.N] - A commit that bumps go.mod references inside the repo
Verify with:
git log -1 --stat
git tag --points-at HEAD
Next: hand off to ship-release
This skill stops here, with the local commit and the two annotated tags. Do not push anything. To carry the release through CI, the docs PR, the Releases workflow, and the PR merges, invoke the ship-release skill (after pushing the branch and opening a PR on it — that's a manual handoff step the user does between the two skills).
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 41466916ebc4
prepare-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository telepresenceio/telepresence (7,295 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 690 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 2026-08-30.
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pr
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create-release
Create a versioned GitHub release with changelog.
commit
Use when making any git commit. Always pass why the changes were made as the argument; when no reason was stated, pass the request that prompted the changes instead — never an invented why.