release-prep SKILL.md skillA

release-prep from ivuorinen/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ivuorinen/skills/release-prep@git:20260930.b9c6b9f

Pins git:20260930.b9c6b9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ivuorinen/skills
Path
.claude/skills/release-prep/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20260930.b9c6b9f, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 6, 2026
Size
8,785 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Checks that the current branch is ready for a release-please release PR — conventional commit types, version manifest sync, findings-store state, and CI status. Use when preparing or verifying a release, cutting a release PR, or confirming a branch is safe to merge for release.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Release Prep Checklist

Validates that the repository is in a clean, releasable state. Does **not**
create tags, bump versions, or push commits — release-please automation
manages all of that from `main`. The only action beyond validation is
offering to open a PR, and only after every gate passes and the user
explicitly approves.

Run the steps in order. **Stop immediately and report findings to the user
if any step fails.** Do not proceed to the next step.

## Step 1 — Validate Skills and Version Sync

Run `/validate-skills`. It validates the public skill (router + command
files) and internal skills, plus the version-sync check
(`scripts/check-version-sync.py`). Any error: stop and report. Warnings
touching files changed in this branch must be fixed.

## Step 2 — Audit Gates

Run each gate command in this order. A gate passes when no Critical or High
finding remains open in the findings store after fixes are applied
(`python3 skills/nitpicker/scripts/findings.py list --status open`).
Any gate with an open Critical/High finding: stop and report.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ivuorinen/skills/release-prep@sha256:6f5dd93f045e469a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.b9c6b9f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ks65otnxagxm46bq.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ks65otnxagxm46bq)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Sep 30, 2026, about one every 14 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260930.b9c6b9f latest2026-09-30 b9c6b9f 8,785 BA view · diff
git:20260915.5ee68d92026-09-15 5ee68d9 8,176 BA view · diff
git:20260829.bc9434a2026-08-29 bc9434a 7,662 BA view · diff
git:20260818.114c1022026-08-18 114c102 7,664 BA view · diff
git:20260710.dc3c0742026-07-10 dc3c074 7,507 BA view · diff
git:20260706.679e74c2026-07-06 679e74c 12,898 BA view · diff
git:20260706.0ac2ba02026-07-06 0ac2ba0 12,429 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8785 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

ivuorinen/skills · 4 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ks65otnxagxm46bq
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ivuorinen/skills/release-prep
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6f5dd93f045e469aa70c3eb28204935f6c2972cfb1eb81eeb51902bcdcc04bd1

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