A release procedure for shipctl that updates its version, creates changelog entries from conventional commits, makes a Git tag, and drafts a GitHub release with compiled binaries.

Use it to prepare stable releases or release candidates, including releases with cross-compiled platform binaries.

It groups the checks and publishing steps needed for a versioned release. It also stops before tagging if the working tree or tests are not ready.

release-cut — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by zakelfassi

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 zakelfassi/skills-driven-development --skill release-cut

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zakelfassi/skills-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 955 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00070	$0.00955
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00382
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00191
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00096

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 791d307e3845, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release-cut 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 1 executable file (scripts/release-cut.sh), 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.

examples/cli-tool/skills/release-cut/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Cut

Bump the version, generate a changelog, tag, and publish a GitHub release for shipctl.

Inputs

Target version (semver, e.g. 1.2.0 or patch/minor/major)
Release channel (defaults to stable; pre for release candidates)
Skip binary attach? (boolean, defaults to false)

Steps

Verify the working tree is clean
```
git status --porcelain
```
If dirty, commit or stash before proceeding.
Run the full test suite
```
cargo test --workspace
```
Abort if any test fails.
Run the breaking-change audit (invoke the breaking-change-audit skill) Confirms no accidental public-interface regressions before tagging.

Bump the version

# For Rust:
cargo set-version {version}   # or edit Cargo.toml manually
# For Go:
# Update version constant in cmd/root.go

Commit the version bump:

git commit -am "chore(release): bump version to {version}"

Generate the changelog
```
scripts/release-cut.sh --changelog-only {version}
```
Review CHANGELOG.md — edit entries if the generated text is unclear. Commit: git commit -am "docs(changelog): {version} release notes"

Create and push the tag

git tag -a "v{version}" -m "Release v{version}"
git push origin "v{version}"

Trigger cross-compile and attach binaries The CI matrix builds all registered target triples (see cross-compile-matrix skill). Wait for the release workflow to complete:
```
gh run watch --exit-status
```

Draft the GitHub release

gh release create "v{version}" \
  --title "v{version}" \
  --notes-file CHANGELOG.md \
  --draft

Review the draft, then publish:

gh release edit "v{version}" --draft=false

Announce (if applicable) Post in the team channel: title, key changes, install command:
```
cargo install shipctl --version {version}
```

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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.

scripts/release-cut.sh 2.4 KB runs code

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.

1mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 791d307e3845

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository zakelfassi/skills-driven-development (18 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 955 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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