freeze

freeze is a skill for Claude Code from tranhieutt/software_development_department. It costs 38 tokens per session (487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-freeze workflow that records why a project is locked, when the lock began, and which branch is affected. During the freeze, only permitted changes such as urgent fixes should proceed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for starting a release or incident lockdown, checking freeze details, and documenting the conditions for restricted development.
Why use it?
It helps prevent accidental changes during releases or incidents when the codebase needs to remain stable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for starting a release or incident lockdown, checking freeze details, and documenting the conditions for restricted development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranhieutt/software_development_department/freeze
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 tranhieutt/software_development_department --skill freeze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranhieutt/software_development_department

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 freeze

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 487 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 $0.00038 $0.00487
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0d3020e058ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

freeze 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 8d 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/freeze/SKILL.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

Code Freeze

Lock the codebase in preparation for a release. Create a .freeze file containing freeze information.

Workflow

1. Read Current Status

Check if .freeze already exists by reading the file. If it exists, display the information and ask:

"The codebase is currently frozen for: [REASON]. Do you want to override the current freeze? (yes/no)"

If no, stop.

2. Get Freeze Reason

If no argument is provided, ask:

"What is the reason for the freeze? (e.g., 'Release v2.1.0', 'Hotfix deployment', 'Sprint end')"

3. Create .freeze File

Write the following content:

FROZEN=true
REASON=[reason]
FROZEN_AT=[ISO timestamp]
BRANCH=[current branch from git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD]

4. Notification

Display:

🔒 CODEBASE FROZEN
Reason : [reason]
Time   : [timestamp]
Branch : [branch]

Non-critical merges are blocked. Only hotfixes are permitted.
To unlock: /unfreeze

5. Suggested Next Steps

  • /release-checklist — Run the full release checklist
  • /guard — Check the freeze status at any time
  • /unfreeze — Unlock after the release is complete

Edge Cases

  • Existing freeze: Ask for override confirmation before overwriting.
  • No git repository: Still create .freeze but omit the BRANCH field.
  • /guard — Check freeze status before merge/deploy
  • /unfreeze — Remove freeze after release
  • /release-checklist — Full release workflow
  • /hotfix — Deploy urgent fixes during a freeze
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. 8d ago First seen · 73 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 0d3020e058ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

freeze is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranhieutt/software_development_department (72 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 487 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.

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