Agent skill

Go CLI Release Automation

by hashgraph-online in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins

Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege…

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Install Go CLI Release Automation

skills CLI
$ npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-release-automation -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins go-cli-release-automation --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/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-release-automation .claude/skills/go-cli-release-automation && 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
go-cli-release-automation
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~668 tokens
SKILL.md length
228 words
Files
10 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
686
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege…

  • Works in 7 steps: Define version, supported targets,… → Validate release configuration without… → Build final artifacts exactly once from… → …
  • Publishing CLI artifacts
  • SKILL.md covers Core Workflow, Read Next, Guardrails and Source Notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Go CLI Release Automation is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege credentials, verification, and recovery. Use when publishing CLI artifacts, configuring release CI, adding package-manager delivery, or diagnosing a partial or failed release.

Its SKILL.md is about 670 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 13 other files, including reference files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`, `guidelines.md` and `references/release-automation/examples.md`). Compatibility notes: Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

It sits in Development, covering Changelog and release notes and CI/CD. It works with Homebrew and GitHub Actions. The repository describes itself as: A curated list of awesome OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT plugins, skills, and resources. The 1 Codex Marketplace. See live plugins at: https://hol.org/plugins/best-codex-plugins. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Publishing CLI artifacts
  • Configuring release CI
  • Adding package-manager delivery
  • Diagnosing a partial

Example prompts

  • “/go-cli-release-automation”

Requirements

  • Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Define version, supported targets, artifact names, and release authority.
  2. Validate release configuration without publishing.
  3. Build final artifacts exactly once from a clean tagged commit and generate checksums.
  4. Publish through pinned, least-privilege CI with protected environments.
  5. Update package-manager metadata from the published artifacts.
  6. Install and smoke-test representative artifacts.
  7. Record partial state and recover without silently replacing released bytes.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 78497e5. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

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

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • goreleaser.com
    • docs.github.com

    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.

  • Compatibility

    Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.

    From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Go CLI Release Automation loads about 668 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.9k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 99 tokens; SKILL.md has 228 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~99
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~668
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.9k

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 hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins at commit 78497e5, republished under its MIT licence (© hashgraph-online). 228 words, ~668 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/go-cli-release-automation/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 9 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
go-cli-release-automation
description
Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege credentials, verification, and recovery. Use when publishing CLI artifacts, configuring release CI, adding package-manager delivery, or diagnosing a partial or failed release.
compatibility
Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients.
license
MIT
metadata.version
0.2.0
metadata.displayName
Go CLI Release Automation
metadata.category
Go
metadata.tags
go,golang,cli,release,ci,goreleaser,homebrew

Go CLI Release Automation

Treat release automation as a state transition with verifiable inputs, immutable artifacts, least privilege, and an explicit recovery path.

Core Workflow

  1. Define version, supported targets, artifact names, and release authority.
  2. Validate release configuration without publishing.
  3. Build final artifacts exactly once from a clean tagged commit and generate checksums.
  4. Publish through pinned, least-privilege CI with protected environments.
  5. Update package-manager metadata from the published artifacts.
  6. Install and smoke-test representative artifacts.
  7. Record partial state and recover without silently replacing released bytes.
TaskLoad
Design and validate the pipelineguidelines.md, workflows/validate-release-config.md
Publish a tagged releaseworkflows/publish-tagged-release.md
Publish Homebrew metadataworkflows/publish-homebrew-package.md
Recover a failed releaseworkflows/recover-failed-release.md
Review security and reproducibilityreferences/release-automation/rules.md
Review examplesreferences/release-automation/examples.md

Guardrails

  • Never release from an unreviewed or dirty source state.
  • Do not grant write tokens to pull-request jobs or untrusted code.
  • Pin CI actions and use current, supported GoReleaser configuration.
  • Do not treat build tags as authorization controls.
  • Do not overwrite published artifacts under the same version.
  • Do not accept locally rebuilt bytes as recovery evidence.

Source Notes

Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from Marian Montagnino, Building Modern CLI Applications in Go (Packt, 2023), Chapters 7 and 12-14, and Ricardo Gerardi, Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go (2021).

Verify current configuration against https://goreleaser.com/, https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/security/secure-use, and the target package manager. Current GoReleaser deprecations must be checked before use.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 9 other files (references) in plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-release-automation of hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml
  • guidelines.md
  • references/release-automation/examples.md
  • references/release-automation/knowledge.md
  • references/release-automation/rules.md
  • workflows/publish-homebrew-package.md
  • workflows/publish-tagged-release.md
  • workflows/recover-failed-release.md
  • workflows/validate-release-config.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 78497e5

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Questions about Go CLI Release Automation

What does Go CLI Release Automation do?

Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege…. Go CLI Release Automation is an agent skill from hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins. Design, implement, and review secure Go CLI release automation with versioned tags, GoReleaser, GitHub Actions, checksums, signing, provenance, changelogs, Homebrew distribution, least-privilege credentials, verification, and recovery.

When should I use Go CLI Release Automation?

Go CLI Release Automation fits situations like: publishing CLI artifacts; configuring release CI; adding package-manager delivery; diagnosing a partial.

How do I install Go CLI Release Automation in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-release-automation -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-release-automation in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .claude/skills/go-cli-release-automation in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Go CLI Release Automation in Codex?

Run `npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-release-automation -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/go-cli-release-automation in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) into .agents/skills/go-cli-release-automation in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Go CLI Release Automation 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 hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill go-cli-release-automation -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/go-cli-release-automation, .gemini/skills/go-cli-release-automation, .github/skills/go-cli-release-automation and .opencode/skills/go-cli-release-automation in your project.

What does Go CLI Release Automation need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Go CLI Release Automation is instructions for the agent only. Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Codex, Claude Code, and other Agent Skills-compatible clients..

Does Go CLI Release Automation access the network?

SKILL.md names 2 domains. As links in the text: goreleaser.com and docs.github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Go CLI Release Automation 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 Go CLI Release Automation use?

Go CLI Release Automation is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Go CLI Release Automation use?

About 668 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Go CLI Release Automation?

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Who maintains Go CLI Release Automation?

hashgraph-online (a GitHub organization) maintains it in hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins, which has 1,242 GitHub stars. The repository holds 686 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.