Release Guard

Release Guard is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by hoangsonww in Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor.

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Install Release Guard

Copy Release Guard 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/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor/tree/master/.agents/skills/release-guard ~/.claude/skills/release-guard

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/hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/release-guard/SKILL.md in hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/release-guard
Collection: One of 20 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Release Guard does

Release Guard runs release-readiness checks for docs, scripts, verification coverage, and operational safety before merge or release. Use it to compare command consistency, architecture docs, and safety controls against the current code.

Release Guard is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Release Guard comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-agents, claude-code, claude-skills and express.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Release Guard Skill

Workflow

Check command consistency across docs and package.json.
Verify architecture docs align with current code paths.
Validate that safety controls are still documented and enforced.
Report pass/fail with concrete file references.

Focus areas

Hook flow and failure behavior.
Session/agent lifecycle semantics.
MCP safety gates and host setup instructions.
Troubleshooting accuracy.

References

references/release-checklist.md

Frequently asked about Release Guard

What else does hoangsonww publish alongside Release Guard?
Release Guard is one of 20 skills that DirSkills catalogs from hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Cache Efficiency, Config Audit and Cost Breakdown. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Release Guard does, and is maintained by hoangsonww in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the hoangsonww/Claude-Code-Agent-Monitor page.
How does Release Guard compare to other Quality skills?
Release Guard ranks #884 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 Release Guard against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.