release-checklist

release-checklist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,433 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A go/no-go checklist for releasing a software change, from pre-deployment checks through rollout, monitoring, communication, and rollback.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan staging and production releases, assess database or API risks, coordinate stakeholders, and define rollback steps.
Why use it?
It helps teams catch release risks before users are affected and gives them clear conditions for stopping or reversing a deployment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps plan staging and production releases, assess database or API risks, coordinate stakeholders, and define rollback steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/the-ai-directory-company/agents-and-skills/release-checklist
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.

Any agent
npx skills add The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills --skill release-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,433 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 $0.00032 $0.01433
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00717
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00143

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8d222ba6aa69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-checklist 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/pre-release-check.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/release-checklist/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Checklist

Before you start

Gather the following from the user:

  1. What is being released? (Service name, version, list of changes or link to changelog)
  2. What environments are involved? (Staging, canary, production regions)
  3. What is the rollback strategy? (Feature flags, blue-green, redeploy previous version)
  4. Who are the stakeholders? (Engineering leads, product owners, support, on-call)
  5. What is the risk level? (Database migrations, breaking API changes, new infrastructure)

If the user says "just make me a release checklist," push back: "For which release? I need the scope of changes, target environments, and rollback strategy to build a useful checklist."

Release checklist template

Pre-Release

Scope Inventory

List every change shipping in this release. For each item, note the owner, whether it is behind a feature flag, and whether it touches shared infrastructure or data schemas.

Risk Classification

Classify as low, medium, or high risk based on: database migrations, breaking API changes, new third-party dependencies, and blast radius. State the classification and reasons. High-risk releases require a dedicated rollback runbook before proceeding.

Dependency Check
  • Dependent services are deployed and healthy
  • Database migrations tested against a production-sized dataset
  • Feature flags configured in all target environments
  • Secrets and environment variables set in target environments

Go/No-Go Criteria

Every row must be "Go" to proceed. If any item is "No-Go," the release does not ship.

Criteria Owner Status
All CI checks pass on release branch Engineer Go / No-Go
Staging smoke tests pass QA Go / No-Go
Database migration tested and reversible DBA / Engineer Go / No-Go
Rollback procedure documented and tested SRE Go / No-Go
On-call engineer identified and available Engineering lead Go / No-Go
Stakeholders notified of release window Release manager Go / No-Go

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 124 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8d222ba6aa69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,433 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.