release-pipeline-architect

release-pipeline-architect is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing software release pipelines. It covers moving one fixed build through testing, staging, and production, with approval checks, controlled rollout, and a safe way to return to the previous version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan versioning, build promotion, rollout strategies, release gates, rollback procedures, and urgent hotfix paths.
Why use it?
It helps teams release changes consistently while reducing uncertainty about approvals, production exposure, and recovery from a bad release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan versioning, build promotion, rollout strategies, release gates, rollback procedures, and urgent hotfix paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/release-pipeline-architect
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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill release-pipeline-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,742 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 $0.00036 $0.01742
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00697
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00348
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00174

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 69f47b15f9aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-pipeline-architect 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), 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-pipeline-architect/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Pipeline Architect

Design release pipelines that move one immutable artifact through test, staging, and production with clear gates, rollout strategy, and rollback procedure.

Scope: Release orchestration after code is ready. NOT for infrastructure provisioning (infrastructure-coder), generic CI job optimization (devops-engineer), or release-note writing (changelog-writer).

Canonical Vocabulary

Term Definition
release candidate A versioned build proposed for promotion
artifact The immutable build output promoted across environments
promotion Moving the same artifact to the next environment
gate A manual or automated approval checkpoint
provenance Evidence tying an artifact to source commit, build, and checks
rollout The production exposure strategy: all-at-once, canary, or phased
rollback point The last known-good release that can be restored safely
freeze window A period where changes are limited to release-critical work
hotfix lane A minimal path for urgent production repairs

Dispatch

$ARGUMENTS Mode
design <requirements> Design a release pipeline and operating model
review <pipeline or runbook> Audit an existing release flow
cutover <release> Plan the release-day sequence and handoffs
hotfix <incident> Design an emergency release lane
checklist <release type> Produce a release readiness checklist
Natural language about release workflows Auto-detect the closest mode
Empty Show the mode menu with examples

Mode Menu

# Mode Example
1 Design design weekly SaaS release with staging and canary prod
2 Review review .github/workflows/release.yml
3 Cutover cutover v2.8.0
4 Hotfix hotfix rollback path for broken payments deploy
5 Checklist checklist mobile app store release

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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 First seen · 150 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 69f47b15f9aa

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release-pipeline-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,742 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.