kitaru: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/kitaru-release/SKILL.md

kitaru-release is a skill for Codex from zenml-io/kitaru. It costs 83 tokens per session (5,867 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Kitaru release guide for discovering dependencies and preparing or carrying out releases of Kitaru core, plugins, and selected interface components. It follows the repository's release workflows and distinguishes preparation from publishing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect release dependencies, prepare release pull requests, select core or plugin release units, verify artifacts, or recover from a release problem.
Why use it?
Kitaru releases can involve several packages, user-interface versions, images, Helm charts, and ordering rules. The guide helps determine the required release shape and prevents publishing or tagging without confirmation.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is zenml-io/kitaru's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on kitaru itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kitaru configures →

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

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zenml-io/kitaru. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zenml-io/kitaru/develop/.agents/skills/kitaru-release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zenml-io/kitaru

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,867 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 15
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 15
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 353
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00083 $0.05867
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.02933
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00587

Measured today against content hash 7dcfabb95e88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kitaru-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 today.

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.

.agents/skills/kitaru-release/SKILL.md · 394 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 394 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Release Kitaru

Use the current workflows as the source of truth:

  • Core: .github/workflows/release.yml
  • Plugins: .github/workflows/release-plugins.yml
  • Python package inventory: release/release-units.toml
  • TypeScript release set: release/typescript.md and .github/workflows/release-typescript.yml
  • Frontend: zenml-io/zenml-frontend-monorepo/.github/workflows/release-kitaru-ui.yml
  • Follow-up skills release: skills-release

Read AGENTS.md. Read plugins/AGENTS.md and plugins/DEVELOPMENT.md for plugin changes. Read FRONTEND-TESTING.md for core or UI work.

Do not create a tag, dispatch a publishing workflow, approve an environment, or publish an artifact without explicit user confirmation. A request to prepare a release authorizes a release PR only.

Select the release shape

Ask only for choices that cannot be derived from the repository and registries.

  1. Core: Release kitaru, the selected UI, public images, the managed image, and Helm from one core tag.
  2. One plugin: Release one selected Python plugin distribution. Do not release the UI or core.
  3. All plugins: Inspect and prepare every plugin release unit independently.
  4. Coordinated: Release core with its selected UI, then publish plugins that depend on that core version.

There is no separate bundle tag. The core tag publishes the Python package and deployables in one workflow.

Confirm the selected distributions, versions, frontend tag, publication order, and release commit before editing.

Discover release impact

Fetch current remote state and load the release inventory:

git fetch origin --prune --tags
uv run --no-project --with packaging==26.2 \
  python scripts/release_units.py list --format json

For every selected unit, resolve its latest published tag. Compare that tag with origin/develop and inspect merged PRs in the range with git log, git diff, and gh pr view. Derive directly changed core and plugin units from impact-paths in release/release-units.toml. Read requires:* labels as release follow-up metadata, together with Release context, linked work, and existing changelog entries. A directly changed unit does not need a matching label when it will be published in the next applicable release. If its publication is intentionally deferred past that release, attach its exact release-label and record the intended timing in Release context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 394 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. today Changed · -14 lines 7dcfabb95e88
  2. 4d ago Changed · +8 lines a41f3aab01f2
  3. 5d ago Changed · +50 lines 5d683313d8de
  4. 9d ago First seen · 350 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 89d91725aec9

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kitaru-release is a skill published in the GitHub repository zenml-io/kitaru (282 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 5,867 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.