Herdr Pre-Release Audit

Herdr Pre-Release Audit is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by herdrdev in herdr.

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Install Herdr Pre-Release Audit

Copy Herdr Pre-Release Audit 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/herdrdev/herdr/tree/master/.agents/skills/herdr-pre-release-audit ~/.claude/skills/herdr-pre-release-audit

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/herdrdev/herdr.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/herdr-pre-release-audit/SKILL.md in herdrdev/herdr
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/herdr-pre-release-audit
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Herdr Pre-Release Audit does

Herdr Pre-Release Audit compares commits since the base release against the next-release changelog, docs, and issue reference lines to confirm release readiness and CI behavior. Use it when finalizing herdr release docs or validating docs/next before a release.

Herdr Pre-Release Audit is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Herdr Pre-Release Audit comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-orchestration, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Herdr Pre-release Audit

Use this skill only inside the herdr repository.

Read references/pre-release-audit.md and follow its workflow. Treat it as the source of truth for:

choosing the release base ref
inspecting first-parent history and merged PRs
auditing docs/next/CHANGELOG.md
auditing docs/next/README.md and staged website docs
checking skills/herdr/SKILL.md against shipped CLI and agent-control behavior
checking issue reference lines
deciding when to run just pre-release-check or its component checks
running and assessing just bench-render-scale
producing the final release-readiness report

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

Frequently asked about Herdr Pre-Release Audit

What else does herdrdev publish alongside Herdr Pre-Release Audit?
Herdr Pre-Release Audit is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from herdrdev/herdr, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Herdr, Herdr Throwaway Repro and Triage. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Herdr Pre-Release Audit does, and is maintained by herdrdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the herdrdev/herdr page.
How does Herdr Pre-Release Audit compare to other Quality skills?
Herdr Pre-Release Audit ranks #102 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Herdr Pre-Release Audit against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.