release

A release-management skill for preparing a software version, including checking the changelog, installing Git hooks, and creating the release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running commands such as releasing version 1.0.5 or a patch release, reviewing changes since the previous version, updating release notes, and checking dependencies.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable release process so version changes, documentation, pending work, and required checks are not overlooked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobi/qmd/release
Any agent
npx skills add tobi/qmd --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobi/qmd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,368 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00058 $0.01368
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00684
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00137

Measured 2d ago against content hash dbc94e782428, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/install-hooks.sh, scripts/release-context.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/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Cut a release, validate the changelog, and ensure git hooks are installed.

Usage

/release 1.0.5 or /release patch (bumps patch from current version).

Process

When the user triggers /release <version>:

  1. Gather context — run skills/release/scripts/release-context.sh <version>. This silently installs git hooks and prints everything needed: version info, working directory status, commits since last release, files changed, current [Unreleased] content, and the previous release entry for style reference.

  2. Commit outstanding work — if the context shows staged, modified, or untracked files that belong in this release, commit them first. Use the /commit skill or make well-formed commits directly.

  3. Write the changelog — if [Unreleased] is empty, write it now using the commits and file changes from the context output. Follow the changelog standard below. Re-run the context script after committing if needed.

  4. Check dependency updates — before cutting the release, check for updates to sqlite-vec (and platform packages), node-llama-cpp, and better-sqlite3. Run pnpm outdated and report any available updates for these packages. If updates exist, bump them (pinned, no ^ ranges) and re-run tests before proceeding.

  5. Cut the release — run scripts/release.sh <version>. This renames [Unreleased][X.Y.Z] - date, inserts a fresh [Unreleased], bumps package.json and the plugin version in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (so installed plugins see the update), commits, and tags.

  6. Show the final changelog — print the full [Unreleased] + minor series rollup via scripts/extract-changelog.sh <version>. Ask the user to confirm before pushing.

  7. Push — after explicit confirmation, run git push origin main --tags.

  8. Watch CI — after the push, start a background dispatch to watch the publish workflow. Use interactive_shell in dispatch mode with:

    gh run watch $(gh run list --workflow=publish.yml --limit=1 --json databaseId --jq '.[0].databaseId') --exit-status
    

    The agent will be notified when CI completes and should report the result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 2d ago First seen · 142 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A dbc94e782428

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobi/qmd (29,423 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,368 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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