release-and-publish

release-and-publish is a skill for Claude Code from wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server. It costs 112 tokens per session (2,853 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of release-and-publish, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for publishing a prepared release to the project's configured registries and distribution services, including npm, the MCP Registry, GitHub Releases, or GHCR.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after the release has already been wrapped up locally with a version bump, changelog, clean working tree, release commit, and annotated tag.
Why use it?
It performs final checks and handles the network steps needed to push release commits and tags and publish the applicable artifacts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the @cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after the release has already been wrapped up locally with a version bump, changelog, clean working tree, release commit, and annotated tag.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server/release-and-publish
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 wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server --skill release-and-publish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install @cyanheads/pentest-mcp-server, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,853 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00112 $0.02853
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01426
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00285

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1a0be6cfd3c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-and-publish scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **MCP Registry**: `curl -s "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/<mcpName>/versions/<version>"` — must return HTTP 200 with `server.version` matching `<version>` (`mcpName` is the `name` field from `se
Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to release-and-publish — 141 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/release-and-publish/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Preconditions

This skill runs after git wrapup. By the time it's invoked:

  • Pre-wrapup verification is done (field-test, security-pass, polish-docs-meta as applicable)
  • package.json version is bumped
  • changelog/<major.minor>.x/<version>.md is authored
  • CHANGELOG.md is regenerated
  • README and every version-bearing file is in sync
  • Release commit (chore: release v<version>) exists
  • Annotated tag (v<version>) exists locally
  • Working tree is clean

If any are missing, halt and tell the user to finish wrapup first. Do not attempt to redo wrapup work from inside this skill.

Failure Protocol

Steps 3–7 are network-bound. For those, retry transient failures up to 2 times with short backoff (~5 s before the first retry, ~15 s before the second) before halting. All other steps halt on the first non-zero exit — they're deterministic and a second attempt won't change the outcome.

Retry on transient patterns

Match stderr (case-insensitive) against any of these — if matched, the failure is almost always a network blip; retry:

  • integrity check failed / IntegrityCheckFailed — corrupt tarball during download
  • ECONNRESET / EAI_AGAIN / ETIMEDOUT / ENOTFOUND — network layer
  • connection reset / connection refused — transport blip
  • timed out / request timeout — server or network timeout
  • HTTP 502 / 503 / 504 — transient registry error

Before retrying docker buildx --push (step 7), run docker builder prune -f to drop any cached corrupt layer. Skip this extra step for other retries.

Never retry on idempotent-success signals

These mean the step already succeeded on a prior run — treat as success and proceed to the next step:

  • npm (bun publish): version already exists, You cannot publish over the previously published versions
  • MCP Registry (mcp-publisher publish): cannot publish duplicate version
  • GitHub Release (gh release create): release already exists — fall back to gh release upload --clobber (see step 6)

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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. 11d ago First seen · 221 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 1a0be6cfd3c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-and-publish is a skill published in the GitHub repository wallieinformal201/pentest-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,853 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 92% identical to release-and-publish, differing in 141 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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