Prepare Code Freeze

Prepare Code Freeze is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by NVIDIA in NeMo-Relay.

165 stars67 forkson NVIDIA/NeMo-RelayAdded 2026/09/08+23% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/07

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Install Prepare Code Freeze

Copy Prepare Code Freeze 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/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay/tree/main/.agents/skills/prepare-code-freeze ~/.claude/skills/prepare-code-freeze

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/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/prepare-code-freeze/SKILL.md in NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/prepare-code-freeze
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 1075 skills

What Prepare Code Freeze does

Prepare Code Freeze creates a NeMo Relay release branch, updates nightly alpha branch config, bumps main to the next version, and opens the required PR. Use it when starting or automating a code freeze.

Prepare Code Freeze is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Prepare Code Freeze comes from a repository tagged agents, ai, atif, atof and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Confirm or infer the target release version from upstream/main:Cargo.toml. Derive the release branch as release/<major>.<minor>.
Prompt for <next-version> if the user did not provide it. This is the version that main moves to after the release branch is cut.
Fetch the latest main and create the release branch from upstream/main:

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

Frequently asked about Prepare Code Freeze

What else does NVIDIA publish alongside Prepare Code Freeze?
Prepare Code Freeze is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adaptive Tuning, Add Binding Feature and Add Middleware. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Prepare Code Freeze does, and is maintained by NVIDIA in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay page.
How does Prepare Code Freeze compare to other DevOps skills?
Prepare Code Freeze ranks #999 by stars among the 1075 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 Prepare Code Freeze against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.