pre-release-verification

pre-release-verification is a skill for Claude Code from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 22 tokens per session (500 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A final verification process for a release candidate, the version intended for publishing or production deployment. It checks the repository state, exact commit, CI results, local validation, and release metadata before tagging or deploying.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before creating a release tag, publishing a package, deploying to production, or approving another agent's release candidate.
Why use it?
A passing CI pipeline alone may not prove that the local package, catalog, or release commit is ready. The checks stop the release when a required gate fails.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/validate-skills.py.

Part of the quality-gates plugin — 8 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before creating a release tag, publishing a package, deploying to production, or approving another agent's release candidate.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yeaight7/agent-powerups/pre-release-verification

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install quality-gates, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 500 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 $0.00022 $0.00500
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00250
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3a4311fd442f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-16, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pre-release-verification 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 3d 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.

plugins/quality-gates/skills/pre-release-verification/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Block releases until the repository state, CI status, local validation, and publish metadata are known and reproducible.

When to Use

  • Before creating a release tag.
  • Before deploying to production.
  • Before approving a release candidate prepared by another agent.
  • When CI is green but local package or catalog checks still need proof.

Do not use as a substitute for fixing failures. If any gate fails, stop and report the blocker.

Inputs

  • Intended version or deployment identifier
  • Current branch and commit
  • CI status for the release commit
  • Project-specific build, lint, test, and packaging commands

Workflow

  1. Confirm the working tree is clean:
git status --short
  1. Confirm the release commit and recent history:
git log --oneline --decorate -n 10
  1. Confirm CI is green for the exact commit. For GitHub:
gh run list --limit 5
gh run view <run-id> --json conclusion,status,headSha,url
  1. Run local validation. Use the project's documented commands, for example:
npm run build
npm test
python scripts/validate-skills.py
python scripts/validate-catalog.py
  1. Check for secrets or accidental local files:
git diff --stat
git status --short
  1. Report go/no-go with exact evidence.

Output

RELEASE VERIFICATION: go / no-go
Commit: <sha>
CI: <status and URL>
Local checks: <commands and results>
Blockers: <none or list>
Next action: <tag / deploy / stop>

Verification

  • Working tree was clean or dirty files were reported.
  • CI status was tied to the exact release commit.
  • Local validation commands exited 0.
  • No secrets or accidental local files were included.
  • Go/no-go recommendation included evidence, not confidence.

Failure Modes

  • Releasing from an uncommitted or untracked local state.
  • Checking CI for a different commit than the release candidate.
  • Treating lint/build success as full test coverage.
  • Continuing after a failed gate because the release is "small".

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 3d ago First seen · 90 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3a4311fd442f

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pre-release-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 500 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-14.