hindsight: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/hs-release/SKILL.md

hs-release is a skill for Claude Code from vectorize-io/hindsight. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,527 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A release procedure for publishing a new version of Hindsight, a system that gives AI agents long-term memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting a core Hindsight release, updating its version, tagging the code, and opening the related changelog and blog pull request.
Why use it?
It guides the version change, changelog and blog updates, while checking that the right fixes are on the main code branch before publishing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

This is vectorize-io/hindsight's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on hindsight 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 hindsight configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is ./scripts/release.sh <version> # e.g. 0.8.1 (no leading v).

About the project

vectorize-io/hindsight is an agent memory system that stores experiences and helps AI agents learn over time instead of only recalling conversation history. It is used by developers adding long-term memory to agents, including coding agents. Catalogue add-ons connect agents to Hindsight and its memory workflows.

vectorize-io/hindsight · 55,527 stars · on GitHub · hindsight.vectorize.io

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to vectorize-io/hindsight. 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/vectorize-io/hindsight/main/.claude/skills/hs-release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vectorize-io/hindsight

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,527 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, 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 Tool Misuse · line 28
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 109
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 92
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00045 $0.01527
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00611
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2911849170e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hs-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 1mo 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/hs-release/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hindsight Release

Cut a core Hindsight release and open the accompanying changelog/blog PR. This is for the core product version (API, clients, CLI, control plane, Helm). Integrations are versioned independently — use scripts/release-integration.sh for those, not this skill.

The release is irreversible and outward-facing: it tags a version and pushes it straight to main, which triggers CI that publishes packages to PyPI / npm / Helm. Confirm the version number and that the intended fixes are already merged to main before you start.

Step 0 — Pre-flight

  1. Decide the base. A release is cut from the latest origin/main, never from a feature branch. git fetch origin --tags first. Confirm the "couple of fixes" the user means are actually merged to main (git log v<prev>..origin/main --oneline).
  2. Find where main is checked out. main is often already checked out in a sibling worktree (git worktree list). You cannot check out main in a second worktree — run the release in the worktree that already holds it. If that worktree is dirty with throwaway cruft (.next-* tsconfig paths, screenshots), git stash push -u, fast-forward to origin/main, run the release, then git stash pop.
  3. Pitfall: never pipe the checkout in an && chain like git checkout main 2>&1 | tail && git reset --hard ... — the pipe's exit status is tail's (always 0), so a failed checkout won't stop the chain and the reset fires on the wrong branch. Check out as its own command and verify git branch --show-current before resetting.

Step 1 — Cut the release

Run from the worktree on a clean main:

./scripts/release.sh <version>     # e.g. 0.8.1  (no leading v)

release.sh bumps the version in every component, regenerates the OpenAPI spec + all client SDKs, updates docs versioning, commits Release v<version>, tags v<version>, and pushes the commit and tag directly to main. The push triggers the Release GitHub Actions workflow that builds and publishes the packages. It is not a PR.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 2911849170e4
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 41caeacb671b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hs-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository vectorize-io/hindsight (55,527 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,527 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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