skills-release

skills-release is a skill for Claude Code from zenml-io/kitaru-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (923 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of skills-release, Apache-2.0.

A release procedure for the kitaru-skills repository, a code repository that distributes skills through a marketplace. It describes how to move tested work from the develop branch to the main branch and publish a versioned release.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a release, verify branch state, update the plugin version, create a tag, and publish a GitHub Release.
Why use it?
It provides checks and steps for releasing the correct commit without overwriting changes that main contains.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the kitaru plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare a release, verify branch state, update the plugin version, create a tag, and publish a GitHub Release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release
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 zenml-io/kitaru-skills --skill skills-release
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenml-io/kitaru-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kitaru, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 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 skills-release

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for skills-release

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zenml-io/kitaru-skills/skills-release.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 923 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 100% 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 $0.00047 $0.00923
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3b20281fdcd7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to skills-release — 0 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.

.claude/skills/skills-release/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skills Release

Overview

main is the distribution branch: /plugin marketplace add zenml-io/kitaru-skills installs whatever main holds, immediately. develop is the working base. A release moves main forward to develop's current commit as a fast-forward and stamps a plugin version, so main is always an exact snapshot of develop at release time.

The main-release-only ruleset blocks all pushes and PR merges to main except by repository admins. A release is therefore an admin running this checklist — never a PR into main, never a force push.

Versions are this repository's own plugin versions. Do not reuse Kitaru product version numbers; state tested Kitaru compatibility in the release notes instead.

Preconditions

Stop and resolve before releasing if any of these fail:

  • On develop with a clean working tree.
  • git fetch origin done; local develop in sync with origin/develop.
  • Fast-forward is possible: git merge-base --is-ancestor origin/main origin/develop exits 0. A non-zero exit means main has commits develop lacks — investigate how they got there; never force-push over them.

Steps

  1. Review what ships: git log --oneline origin/main..origin/develop. Draft release notes from these commits (what changed, why it matters to installers), plus a "Tested against Kitaru X.Y" line when known.

  2. Agree the next version with the user: minor for new or changed skills, patch for fixes and docs-only changes.

  3. Bump all three version fields to the same value:

    • .claude-plugin/plugin.json.version
    • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.metadata.version
    • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json.plugins[0].version
  4. Validate: jq . .claude-plugin/plugin.json and jq . .claude-plugin/marketplace.json parse, and all three fields match:

    jq -r .version .claude-plugin/plugin.json
    jq -r '.metadata.version, .plugins[0].version' .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
    
  5. Commit only the two JSON files on develop with subject Release vX.Y.Z, then push develop.

  6. Tag the release commit: git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z.

  7. Fast-forward main: git push origin develop:main. No --force ever — a rejection means the push is not a fast-forward; go back to Preconditions.

  8. Publish the drafted notes via a file, never inline in the command — commit subjects routinely contain backticks, which the shell would execute as command substitution inside a --notes "..." argument. Write the notes to a scratch file with a file-writing tool (or a quoted heredoc, cat > notes.md <<'EOF'), then:

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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 · 87 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 3b20281fdcd7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skills-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository zenml-io/kitaru-skills (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 923 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to skills-release, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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