Agent skill

Release Day Countdown

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content…

MITAuto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Release Day Countdown

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills release-day-countdown --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/release-day-countdown .claude/skills/release-day-countdown && 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-day-countdown
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
776 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content…

  • Works in 5 steps: Pick the date like a logistics decision.… → Weeks 8–6: finish and upload. Master… → Weeks 5–3: batch the content while calm.… → …
  • A musician says Im releasing a single/EP
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Release Day Countdown is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batched before the chaos, and a release week that doesn't depend on luck. Use when a musician says 'I'm releasing a single/EP', 'when should I submit to playlists', 'plan my release', or uploaded to a distributor with no plan. Produces the week-by-week countdown, the asset checklist, and release-week runbook.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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 DevOps & Cloud, covering Runbooks and postmortems. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A musician says Im releasing a single/EP
  • Should I submit to playlists
  • Plan my release
  • Uploaded to a distributor with no plan

Example prompts

  • “t depend on luck. Use when a musician says”
  • “m releasing a single/EP”
  • “when should I submit to playlists”
  • “/release-day-countdown”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Pick the date like a logistics decision. Fridays are conventional
  2. Weeks 8–6: finish and upload. Master finalized · artwork at spec ·
  3. Weeks 5–3: batch the content while calm. The pitch text (one
  4. Weeks 2–1: outreach in person-sized batches. Independent curators
  5. Release week: the runbook, not vibes. Day 0: everything live,

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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 Day Countdown loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 132 tokens; SKILL.md has 776 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~132
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 776 words, ~1,644 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/release-day-countdown/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
release-day-countdown
description
Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batched before the chaos, and a release week that doesn't depend on luck. Use when a musician says 'I'm releasing a single/EP', 'when should I submit to playlists', 'plan my release', or uploaded to a distributor with no plan. Produces the week-by-week countdown, the asset checklist, and release-week runbook.

Release Day Countdown Skill

Most independent releases happen twice: the day the song goes live to 40 streams, and the month later when the artist learns what they should have done eight weeks early. The machinery has real deadlines — distributors need lead time, editorial playlist pitching closes before release day, content is impossible to batch once the week arrives — and none of it is complicated; it's just sequenced. This skill runs the sequence backwards from the date (or forwards to pick a date honestly), with every platform-specific number flagged as check-current, because lead times and pitch windows change and a plan built on stale specifics is a plan built on sand.

What This Skill Produces

  • The 8-week countdown, week by week: distribution upload, metadata and credits, pitch windows, content batching, outreach waves — each with its why and its check-current flag where platforms set the rule
  • An asset checklist: audio master, artwork at spec, canvas/visualizer, lyric assets, press photo, the bio paragraph — with the "before upload" vs "before release" split
  • The pitching plan: editorial (via the distributor/platform tools, submitted early), independent curators (researched, personalized, no-pay-for-play flagged as the scam it usually is), and the local/press angle from [[press-kit-epk]]
  • A release-week runbook: day-by-day, including the two moves that outperform everything (thanking early sharers personally, and the day-3 content drop when the algorithm decides)
  • The honest-expectations line: what a first release's numbers typically look like, so week two isn't despair

Required Inputs

Ask for (if not already provided):

  • The release: single/EP/album, genre, done-ness of the master and artwork, the date (or "help me pick one")
  • The artist's current reach, honestly: platforms, follower counts, the mailing list if any, past release numbers
  • Team of one, or help? Budget: zero, small, or real?
  • The goal, honestly ranked: streams? local gigs? label attention? the mailing list? (The plan weights differently)

Framework

  1. Pick the date like a logistics decision. Fridays are conventional (chart weeks) but a small artist's Tuesday can dodge the big-release flood — decide by goal. Then anchor the two hard deadlines backwards: distributor upload (lead times vary — check yours, typically weeks not days) and editorial pitch close (before release; check the platform's current window). Everything else hangs between.
  2. Weeks 8–6: finish and upload. Master finalized · artwork at spec · metadata and credits complete (wrong credits are forever) · upload early — early upload is what makes editorial pitching possible at all.
  3. Weeks 5–3: batch the content while calm. The pitch text (one paragraph: what it is, what it's like, one true story) · 10–15 content pieces from the one song (teasers, the story behind it, the lyric moment, the bad-first-demo comparison people love) · the pre-save decision made honestly: pre-saves help algorithmic day-one but annoy small audiences if over-flogged — one ask, two reminders, done.
  4. Weeks 2–1: outreach in person-sized batches. Independent curators researched (right genre, real playlists with real listeners), personalized two-line pitches · local press/radio with the EPK · the mailing list gets the real story, not the marketing copy — the list is the only channel the artist owns, treat it best.
  5. Release week: the runbook, not vibes. Day 0: everything live, links verified, the personal-thanks discipline starts (every share answered by name — it's the highest-ROI hour in music marketing). Day 3: the held-back content drop. Day 7: numbers reviewed against honest expectations, thank-you post, and the next release sketched — because catalogs compound and one-offs don't.
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Output Format

## The countdown — [release] on [date]
| Week | Must ship | Platform deadlines (check-current) | Content batch |

## Asset checklist
[Before-upload set · before-release set · specs flagged check-current]

## Pitching plan
[Editorial route · curator shortlist criteria + the 2-line pitch ·
press/local via EPK · the no-pay-for-play warning]

## Release week runbook
[Day by day · the personal-thanks discipline · the day-3 drop]

## Honest expectations + next
[What week one typically looks like at your reach · the catalog note]

Quality Checks

  • Every platform-specific number (lead times, pitch windows, artwork specs) carries a check-current flag — zero asserted as timeless fact
  • The countdown fits the real date; if the date makes editorial pitching impossible, the plan says so and offers the honest choice (move the date or skip that channel)
  • Content is batched before week 2 in the plan — nothing creative is scheduled for release week itself
  • The pay-for-playlist warning appears in the pitching plan
  • Expectations are calibrated to the artist's actual current reach

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not build the plan around going viral — the plan works at 40 streams and scales if lightning hits, not the reverse
  • Do not recommend paid playlist placement or stream-farming — flagged as harmful (platforms penalize it), not just tacky
  • Do not schedule daily begging posts — the ask-budget is finite; story content spends it better than reminders
  • Do not skip credits/metadata rigor — it's the least fun item and the most permanent
  • Do not let release day end the plan; the day-7 review and next- release sketch are in the runbook

[[press-kit-epk]] for the outreach attachment; [[band-agreement]] before the money arrives; [[clip-factory]] turns the one song into the fifteen pieces; [[content-calendar]] for the ongoing rhythm after.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I'm releasing a single/EP."
  • "Should I submit to playlists?"
  • "Plan my release."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/release-day-countdown of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Release Day Countdown

What does Release Day Countdown do?

Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content…. Release Day Countdown is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan an independent music release backwards from release day — the 8-week countdown with distributor upload deadlines flagged, playlist pitch windows, the pre-save decision made honestly, content batched before the chaos, and a release week that doesn't depend on luck.

When should I use Release Day Countdown?

Release Day Countdown fits situations like: A musician says Im releasing a single/EP; should I submit to playlists; plan my release; uploaded to a distributor with no plan.

How do I install Release Day Countdown in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/release-day-countdown in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/release-day-countdown in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Release Day Countdown in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/release-day-countdown in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/release-day-countdown in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Release Day Countdown 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill release-day-countdown -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-day-countdown, .gemini/skills/release-day-countdown, .github/skills/release-day-countdown and .opencode/skills/release-day-countdown in your project.

What does Release Day Countdown need to run?

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

Does Release Day Countdown 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 Day Countdown 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 Day Countdown use?

Release Day Countdown 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 Day Countdown use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Release Day Countdown?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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