release

release is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xonika9/agent-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-specific procedure for preparing or publishing a software release, meaning a checked and versioned update made available to users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing a release for maintainer approval, or publishing an explicitly requested release through the repository's release process.
Why use it?
It ensures the release version, changelog, manifests, tags, workflows, and final publication follow the project's required checks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the x9-agent-skills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

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/xonika9/agent-skills/release
Any agent
npx skills add xonika9/agent-skills --skill release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonika9/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install x9-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xonika9/agent-skills/release.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xonika9/agent-skills/release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xonika9/agent-skills/release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xonika9/agent-skills/release.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,950 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 $0.00069 $0.01950
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00975
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00390
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00195

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0d2f117a7829, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_global_files.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.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release

Prepare or publish a version of x9-agent-skills from the complete repository state. The latest public tag, the diff to the release candidate, CHANGELOG.md, both plugin manifests, the validation workflow, and the release workflow are the sources of truth; do not infer release scope from the current conversation or recent commits alone.

This is a private repository-local skill for Claude Code and Codex. Its canonical source is .claude/skills/release; .agents/skills exposes that source through a repository-relative symlink. Do not add it to the public skills/ package or its manifests and READMEs.

Select the mode

  • Prepare applies when the request is to prepare a release. Propose the version, wait for maintainer confirmation, update release files, and run the release gate. Stop before commit, push, tag, or GitHub Release.
  • Publish applies only when the maintainer explicitly asks to publish or release. It includes preparation, a release commit, a push to main, and monitoring until the matching GitHub Release is visible or a concrete failure is reported.

An ordinary request to commit, push, merge, edit the changelog, or validate the package is not release authority. Never create or move a tag manually; .github/workflows/release.yml owns tag and GitHub Release creation after the pushed main commit passes validation.

Establish the candidate

Resolve the repository root from this skill's location, then inspect:

  • the worktree, current branch, remotes, and latest public v* tag;
  • the complete diff and commit range from that tag to the candidate, including uncommitted and untracked files;
  • README.md, README.ru.md, CHANGELOG.md, .claude-plugin/plugin.json, .codex-plugin/plugin.json;
  • the installed personal ~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md, ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, and ~/.codex/AGENTS.md plus their published sources in global-files/;
  • scripts/prepare_release.py, .github/workflows/validate.yml, and .github/workflows/release.yml.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 94 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 0d2f117a7829

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonika9/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,950 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 2026-08-31.

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