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fradser·vlatest·devops·MIT

Automates deployment by triggering a release pipeline based on a command, streamlining your DevOps workflows and accelerating deployments.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add fradser/dotclaude --skill start-release -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

fradser

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned fradser/dotclaude at 9815c4f485.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
9815c4f485
Manifest
git/skills/start-release/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 18 lines
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About this skill

What it does

The start-release skill automates the initial steps of a software release process. It handles tasks like bumping version numbers, creating git tags, and preparing release notes based on commit messages. This streamlines the beginning of releases, reducing manual effort and potential errors.

When to use it

  • You're starting a new software release cycle and need to automate initial steps.
  • Your team follows semantic versioning and wants to automatically update version numbers.
  • You want to generate basic release notes from commit messages.
  • You are looking for a way to create git tags with specific naming conventions.

Key capabilities

  • Version number bumping (semantic versioning)
  • Git tag creation
  • Release note generation from commit messages

Example prompts

  • "Start a new release, please."
  • "Prepare the next release and generate release notes."
  • "Bump the version to the next appropriate semantic version."

Tips & gotchas

The skill relies on standard git workflows. Ensure your commit messages are formatted appropriately for effective release note generation.