Agent skill

Release Check

by clone45 in clone45/voxglitch

Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library.

GPL-3.0Auto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Release Check

skills CLI
$ npx skills add clone45/voxglitch --skill release-check -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install clone45/voxglitch release-check --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/clone45/voxglitch.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release-check .claude/skills/release-check && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
release-check
GitHub stars
131
Token cost
~781 tokens
SKILL.md length
359 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
GPL-3.0

At a glance

Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library.

  • Preparing a release
  • Calls python3
  • Checking release readiness
  • Asked to run the prerelease check

What it does

Release Check is an agent skill from clone45/voxglitch. Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library. Verifies the tree is clean and pushed, no debug switches or stray prints ship, every TU compiles, static analysis matches the baseline, manual links resolve, and the version was bumped — then preps the library issue posting. Use when preparing a release, checking release readiness, or when asked to run the prerelease check.

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Feature launches and release readiness and Static analysis and SAST. The licence is GPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Preparing a release
  • Checking release readiness
  • Asked to run the prerelease check

Example prompts

  • “/release-check”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0baadb5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • python3

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Release Check loads about 781 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 113 tokens; SKILL.md has 359 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~113
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~781

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from clone45/voxglitch at commit 0baadb5, republished under its GPL-3.0 licence (© clone45). 359 words, ~781 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/release-check/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
release-check
description
Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library. Verifies the tree is clean and pushed, no debug switches or stray prints ship, every TU compiles, static analysis matches the baseline, manual links resolve, and the version was bumped — then preps the library issue posting. Use when preparing a release, checking release readiness, or when asked to run the prerelease check.

Voxglitch release check

All checks live in one script — do not re-derive them by hand:

bash
python3 scripts/release_check.py --module "Piano Roll" --kind update
  • --module / --kind new|update shape the issue title (New module: Piano Roll (updated)); omit both for a plain plugin update.
  • --skip-build skips the compile sweep and cppcheck for a fast re-run after fixing a non-code finding.

Rack SDK version lives in FOUR places and must move together: the rack-sdk-version env in .github/workflows/build-macos.yml, build-linux.yml and build-windows.yml, plus the local ../Rack-SDK this check compiles against. Skew between them is how the Linux workflow stayed red for eight months (the CI image had a pre-2.6 SDK while local and macOS had 2.6.4, so isKeyCommand built here and failed there). When bumping the SDK, change all three workflows and refresh the local SDK in the same sitting.

  • --version-ok passes the version-bump check when Bret has confirmed the current version is meant to cover source commits made since it changed. Only pass it on his explicit say-so.
  • The compile sweep needs the Rack SDK; it defaults to ../Rack-SDK, override with RACK_DIR=.... Full run takes 2-4 minutes.

The script prints JSON and exits non-zero if anything failed. Report the results as a short pass/fail table, quoting the detail of any failure.

When everything passes it writes the library posting to docs/releases/library_issue_v<version>.md (title + repo URL + version + full commit hash — the exact format of past submissions). Point Bret at the file. Never post the issue yourself — library submissions, like all of cschol's tickets, are written and posted by Bret personally.

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What it checks, for context (the script is authoritative):

  • on master, tree clean (.claude/ and docs/releases/ exempt), pushed
  • no stray printf/cout/cerr/fprintf outside vendored code
  • #define DEVELOPMENT commented out in vgLib-2.0/helpers/Debugging.hpp, and no -DDEVELOPMENT in the Makefile (either ships VBUG logging to every user's Rack log)
  • every TU compiles with full codegen and -Wall -Wextra (warnings fail — -fsyntax-only is not used because it misses codegen-time warnings)
  • scripts/static_analysis/analyze.py reports nothing beyond the baseline
  • plugin.json version changed since the last src/ commit
  • every module's manualUrl resolves (HEAD request). A missing manualUrl is warning-only — fourteen legacy modules have never had one (Bret's call, 2026-08-29) — but a set-and-broken or non-http URL still fails.
  • HEAD's commit exists on GitHub

© clone45, GPL-3.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/release-check of clone45/voxglitch.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0baadb5

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Questions about Release Check

What does Release Check do?

Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library. Release Check is an agent skill from clone45/voxglitch. Pre-release readiness check for the voxglitch plugin, run before submitting a version to the VCV Rack library.

When should I use Release Check?

Release Check fits situations like: preparing a release; checking release readiness; asked to run the prerelease check.

How do I install Release Check in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add clone45/voxglitch --skill release-check -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/release-check in clone45/voxglitch) into .claude/skills/release-check in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Release Check in Codex?

Run `npx skills add clone45/voxglitch --skill release-check -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/release-check in clone45/voxglitch) into .agents/skills/release-check in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Release Check in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add clone45/voxglitch --skill release-check -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/release-check, .gemini/skills/release-check, .github/skills/release-check and .opencode/skills/release-check in your project.

What does Release Check need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Release Check needs the command-line tools its instructions call (python3). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Release Check access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Release Check safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Release Check use?

Release Check is published under the GPL-3.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Release Check use?

About 781 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Release Check?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Release Check: .NET MAUI Release Readiness (dotnet/maui, 23k stars), Release Validation (Mesh-LLM/mesh-llm, 3.5k stars), Final Release Review (openai/openai-agents-python, 30k stars) and Final Release Review (openai/openai-agents-js, 3.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Release Check?

clone45 (a GitHub user) maintains it in clone45/voxglitch, which has 131 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 14, 2026.

Source: clone45/voxglitch on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.