Agent skill

Release

by noahapp in noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers

Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform.

AGPL-3.0Auto-check passedDevOps & Cloud

Install Release

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers 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/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .claude/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers release --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release .agents/skills/release && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .agents/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers release --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release .cursor/skills/release && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .cursor/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git --path .claude/skills/release

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers release --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release .gemini/skills/release && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .gemini/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers release

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release .github/skills/release && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .github/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers release --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/release .opencode/skills/release && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "release" agent skill from https://github.com/noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers/tree/main/.claude/skills/release into .opencode/skills/release/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "release", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: release
GitHub stars: 127
Token cost: ~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length: 547 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 1
Repo updated: Aug 11, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: AGPL-3.0

At a glance

Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform.

Works in 3 steps: Run cargo test — abort if any fail. → Check git status — warn if there are… → Lockfile check: Verify pnpm-lock.yaml…
DevOps & Cloud work in your project
SKILL.md covers Pre-flight, Version bump, Build and upload (Mac — local) and Build and upload (Windows +…, plus 2 more sections
Calls gh, git and node; needs TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY and APPLE_PASSWORD

What it does

Release is an agent skill from noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers. Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform. Handles signing keys, version bumps across all config files, testing, committing, pushing, and uploading to GitHub Releases.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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. It works with GitHub and Tauri. The repository describes itself as: Noah -- fixing your computer issues. The licence is AGPL-3.0.

When your agent uses it

DevOps & Cloud work in your project

Example prompts

“/release”

Requirements

A credential in TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY

Workflow steps

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

Run cargo test — abort if any fail.
Check git status — warn if there are uncommitted changes unrelated to the release.
Lockfile check: Verify pnpm-lock.yaml and Cargo.lock are committed and in sync with their respective manifest files. If either is…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d5e3a81. 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:
- gh
- git
- node
- cargo
- ssh
- pnpm
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, git, ssh and pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:
- TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY
- APPLE_PASSWORD
- TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Release loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 547 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.3k

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 noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers at commit d5e3a81, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© noahapp). 547 words, ~1,284 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/release/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: release
description: Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform. Handles signing keys, version bumps across all config files, testing, committing, pushing, and uploading to GitHub Releases.
user-invocable: true

Release Noah

Cut a release: Mac locally (universal binary), Windows + Linux via GitHub Actions.

Pre-flight

Run cargo test — abort if any fail.
Check git status — warn if there are uncommitted changes unrelated to the release.
Lockfile check: Verify pnpm-lock.yaml and Cargo.lock are committed and in sync with their respective manifest files. If either is modified/untracked, commit them first. Out-of-sync lockfiles cause --frozen-lockfile failures.

Version bump

The version lives in three files that must stay in sync:

apps/desktop/src-tauri/Cargo.toml (version = "X.Y.Z")
apps/desktop/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json ("version": "X.Y.Z")
apps/desktop/package.json ("version": "X.Y.Z")

After editing Cargo.toml, run cargo check to update Cargo.lock, then stage it too.

Determine the bump type from context:

Patch (0.9.2 -> 0.9.3): bug fixes, minor tweaks
Minor (0.9.2 -> 0.10.0): new features, notable changes
Major (0.9.2 -> 1.0.0): breaking changes, major milestones

If the user specifies a bump type or target version, use that. Otherwise ask.

Update all three files + Cargo.lock, then commit:

Bump version to X.Y.Z

<one-line summary of what changed since last release>

Push the commit before building (CI needs the latest code).

Build and upload (Mac — local)

Two key families are required:

Tauri updater key (TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY) — signs the updater manifest so existing installs can auto-update
Apple Developer ID (APPLE_*) — code-signs and notarizes the .dmg/.app so Gatekeeper accepts it on first launch

bash

# Updater signing
export TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY="$(cat ~/.tauri/noah.key)"
export TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD="searchformeaning"

# Apple code signing + notarization (required for a Gatekeeper-clean dmg)
export APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY="Developer ID Application: You Xu (2VGY8SHNYJ)"
export APPLE_ID="xu.leaps@gmail.com"
export APPLE_PASSWORD="<app-specific password from appleid.apple.com>"
export APPLE_TEAM_ID="2VGY8SHNYJ"

node scripts/release.mjs --upload --skip-install

The APPLE_* vars are typically already set in the shell (.zshenv). If you see ==> APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY not set or ==> APPLE_ID/APPLE_PASSWORD/APPLE_TEAM_ID not set in the script's output, the build will succeed but the resulting .dmg will be unsigned — abort and export the missing vars before re-running, otherwise users hit Gatekeeper warnings.

This builds a universal macOS binary (ARM + Intel via --target universal-apple-darwin), signs with the Apple Developer ID, submits to Apple for notarization, staples the ticket, and uploads the .dmg + .tar.gz (with updater signature) to GitHub Releases. The latest.json registers both darwin-aarch64 and darwin-x86_64 for the updater.

The release script automatically:

Installs x86_64-apple-darwin Rust target if missing
Cleans stale bundle artifacts before building
Output goes to target/universal-apple-darwin/release/bundle/

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Build and upload (Windows + Linux — GitHub Actions)

After the Mac build uploads and creates the release, trigger CI for Windows and Linux:

bash

gh workflow run release.yml --field tag=vX.Y.Z

This runs .github/workflows/release.yml which builds on both windows-latest and ubuntu-22.04 in parallel, then uploads artifacts (NSIS .exe, MSI .msi, deb, rpm, AppImage) to the same GitHub release.

Monitor progress:

bash

gh run list --workflow=release.yml --limit 1
gh run watch          # live tail

Signing secrets (TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY, TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD) are configured as GitHub repo secrets — no manual setup needed per build.

Fallback: manual Windows build

If CI is broken, Windows can still be built manually on the Windows machine:

SSH to Windows: ssh xulea@100.87.199.115
Run: cd C:\Users\xulea\src\itman && git pull && node scripts/release.mjs --build (Ensure signing key is at ~/.tauri/noah.key and PATH includes cargo, node, pnpm)
SCP both NSIS (.exe) and MSI (.msi) artifacts back
Upload with gh release upload vX.Y.Z /tmp/Noah_*.exe /tmp/Noah_*.msi --clobber

Post-release

Push all commits: git push
Print the release URL for the user.
Optionally monitor CI: gh run list --workflow=release.yml --limit 1

CI Notes

macOS builds are local only — macOS CI runners cost 10x (would eat free tier fast).
Windows + Linux via GitHub Actions — release.yml is workflow_dispatch only (manual trigger). Free tier: 2,000 min/month; a typical release uses ~30 min (10 min Windows ×2 + 10 min Linux ×1).
ci.yml is also workflow_dispatch only (test-only, no builds).
The --skip-install flag skips pnpm install in the release script (saves time when deps haven't changed). Omit it if dependencies were recently added.

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/release of noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d5e3a81

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Works with

Questions about Release

What does Release do?

Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform. Release is an agent skill from noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers. Bump version, build, and release Noah for the current platform.

When should I use Release?

Release fits situations like: devOps & Cloud work in your project.

How do I install Release in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/release in noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers) 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 noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --skill release -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/release in noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers) 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 noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers --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?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Release needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh, git, node, cargo, ssh and pnpm) and credentials named TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY, APPLE_PASSWORD and TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD. Our summary lists: A credential in TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY.

Does Release access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, git and ssh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. 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 AGPL-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 use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.1k 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: Cursor BYOK Desktop Release (leookun/cursor-byok, 3.2k stars), Desktop Release Preflight (Eynzof/Hermes-CN-Desktop, 1.7k stars), Release Publish (bkywksj/knowledge-base, 330 stars) and Yaak Changelog (mountain-loop/yaak, 19k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Release?

noahapp (a GitHub organization) maintains it in noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers, which has 127 GitHub stars. The repository was last updated on August 11, 2026.

Source: noahapp/noah-for-tinkerers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Release

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Requirements

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Release Noah

Pre-flight

Version bump

Build and upload (Mac — local)

Build and upload (Windows + Linux — GitHub Actions)

Fallback: manual Windows build

Post-release

CI Notes

Files

Compare with similar skills

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