Agent skill

Release

by jmstar85 in jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot

Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Release

skills CLI
$ npx skills add jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill release -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot release --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/jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/release .claude/skills/release && 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
GitHub stars
158
Token cost
~256 tokens
SKILL.md length
104 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps.

  • Works in 5 steps: Detect release conventions from package… → Identify version bump type and impacted… → Prepare release notes or changelog… → …
  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Approval Gates and Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Release is an agent skill from jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot. Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps. Activate when: release, publish version, cut release, ship package, changelog.

Its SKILL.md is about 260 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 Development, covering Changelog and release notes. The repository describes itself as: Ultimate Harness Automation for Github Copilot on VS Code. It provides 28+ specialized agents, 30+ reusable skills, hooks, guardrails, and etc. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Changelog and release notes

Example prompts

  • “/release”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Detect release conventions from package manifests, changelogs, tags, and CI files.
  2. Identify version bump type and impacted packages.
  3. Prepare release notes or changelog entries from verified changes.
  4. Run build, test, package, and smoke checks before publishing.
  5. Ask for explicit approval before destructive or irreversible publish actions.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 12b2c29. 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

    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 loads about 256 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 47 tokens; SKILL.md has 104 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~47
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~256

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 jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot at commit 12b2c29, republished under its MIT licence (© jmstar85). 104 words, ~256 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/release/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
release
description
Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps. Activate when: release, publish version, cut release, ship package, changelog.
argument-hint
<release target or version>

Release

Use this skill to prepare a repository release without skipping verification or approval gates.

Workflow

  1. Detect release conventions from package manifests, changelogs, tags, and CI files.
  2. Identify version bump type and impacted packages.
  3. Prepare release notes or changelog entries from verified changes.
  4. Run build, test, package, and smoke checks before publishing.
  5. Ask for explicit approval before destructive or irreversible publish actions.

Approval Gates

  • Version changes
  • Tag creation
  • Package publishing
  • Production deployment

Rules

  • Never publish, tag, or push release artifacts without explicit user approval.
  • Do not hide failing tests under a release note.
  • Record commands run and evidence collected.

© jmstar85, MIT. 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 .github/skills/release of jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 12b2c29

Compare with similar skills

Release next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Release compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Release this skilljmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot158—~256Automated safety check: PassMIT
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Cutting A ReleaseTriliumNext/Trilium38k—~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0
React Router Release Notes Prepremix-run/react-router57k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Mole CLI Release Flowtw93/Mole70k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0

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Categories

Questions about Release

What does Release do?

Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps. Release is an agent skill from jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot. Analyze repository release rules and guide safe versioning, changelog, packaging, and publish steps.

When should I use Release?

Release fits situations like: tasks that involve Changelog and release notes.

How do I install Release in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill release -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/release in jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot) into .claude/skills/release in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Release in Codex?

Run `npx skills add jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill release -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/release in jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot) into .agents/skills/release in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Release 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 jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill release -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, .gemini/skills/release, .github/skills/release and .opencode/skills/release in your project.

What does Release need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Release is instructions for the agent only.

Does Release 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 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 use?

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

How many tokens does Release use?

About 256 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Release: Simple English (moeru-ai/airi, 50k stars), StarRocks Release Notes (StarRocks/starrocks, 12k stars), Cutting A Release (TriliumNext/Trilium, 38k stars) and React Router Release Notes Prep (remix-run/react-router, 57k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Release?

jmstar85 (a GitHub user) maintains it in jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot, which has 158 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 20, 2026.

Source: jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.