Happier Release Validation

by happier-dev

Happier Release Validation is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by happier-dev in happier.

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Install Happier Release Validation

Copy Happier Release Validation into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/happier-dev/happier/tree/dev/skills/happier-release-validation ~/.claude/skills/happier-release-validation

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/happier-dev/happier.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/happier-release-validation/SKILL.md in happier-dev/happier
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/happier-release-validation
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Happier Release Validation does

Happier Release Validation runs manual deep release certification from an explicit checkout without dispatching a release. Use it to inspect affected compatibility paths, record evidence, and report results for human approval.

Happier Release Validation is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Happier Release Validation comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude, claude-code, codex and gemini.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Happier Release Validation

This is the repository-owned entrypoint for the public release contract's manual-only deep profile. It does not publish, promote, deploy, submit stores, or create a release operation.

Start from the target contract

From the explicit candidate checkout, inspect the target-owned profile and its executable suite inventory:

node scripts/pipeline/run.mjs release-contract
node scripts/pipeline/run.mjs release-validate --profile deep --dry-run

deep is not part of normal release dispatch. This skill is its manual entrypoint; the registry does not pretend that semantic compatibility or human QA can be decided by a script.

For general release preparation or approval, first use the installed private maintainer authority:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Happier Release Validation

What else does happier-dev publish alongside Happier Release Validation?
Happier Release Validation is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from happier-dev/happier, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Attack Your Conclusion, Decompose With Gates and Handoff Report. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Happier Release Validation does, and is maintained by happier-dev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the happier-dev/happier page.
How does Happier Release Validation compare to other DevOps skills?
Happier Release Validation ranks #336 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Happier Release Validation against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.