glab-release

glab-release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills. It costs 66 tokens per session (727 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for managing software releases on GitLab, a service for hosting code and its project history.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, list, view, and delete releases, and upload or download release files such as binaries and other build artifacts.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manage release pages and downloadable files manually through the GitLab website.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills/glab-release
Any agent
npx skills add vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills --skill glab-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 727 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 5.1 $0.00066 $0.00727
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00364
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00073

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3dedeaba8a04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glab-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 6d 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.

glab-release/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

glab release

Overview


  Manage GitLab releases.
  USAGE
    glab release <command> [command] [--flags]
  COMMANDS
    create <tag> [<files>...] [--flags]  Create a new GitLab release, or update an existing one.
    delete <tag> [--flags]               Delete a GitLab release.
    download [<tag>] [--flags]           Download asset files from a GitLab release.
    list [--flags]                       List releases in a repository.
    upload <tag> [<files>...] [--flags]  Upload release asset files or links to a GitLab release.
    view [<tag>] [--flags]               View information about a GitLab release.
  FLAGS
    -h --help                            Show help for this command.
    -R --repo                            Select another repository. Can use either `OWNER/REPO` or `GROUP/NAMESPACE/REPO` format. Also accepts full URL or Git URL.

Quick start

glab release --help

Structured output

glab release list and glab release view support --output json / -F json for structured output, which is useful for agent automation.

--notes and --notes-file are optional for glab release create and glab release update.

The tag is optional for glab release view and glab release download; omit it to target the latest release. Pass an explicit tag in release automation when reproducibility matters.

# List releases with JSON output
glab release list --output json
glab release list -F json

# View a release with JSON output
glab release view v1.2.0 --output json
glab release view v1.2.0 -F json

# Create a release without notes
glab release create v1.2.0

# Update a release without notes
glab release update v1.2.0 --name "My Release"

Creating releases in GitLab CI/CD

For a pipeline job, prefer the predefined CI_JOB_TOKEN with glab CI auto-login; see glab-auth for the general mechanism and environment-variable precedence. The Releases API accepts that credential in the JOB-TOKEN header:

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 lines

Files

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.

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. 6d ago First seen · 73 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 3dedeaba8a04

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glab-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository vince-winkintel/gitlab-cli-skills (47 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 727 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.