Plugin release checker

Skill joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins/.claude/skills/plugin-release-checker

Validate plugin content quality before release. Run skill-validator across plugins, verify marketplace.json completeness, check plugin.json version consistency, and detect broken documentation cross-references. Use when preparing a release, before running release.sh, or when user mentions "release check", "pre-release", "plugin-release-checker", or "release validation".From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins --skill plugin-release-checker

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21 stars21 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.
runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 2 commands, including `scripts/check_release_readiness.py --all` and 1 more.

SKILL.md

2.3 KB, 445 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Plugin Release Checker

Pre-release content quality gate that complements scripts/release.sh. Run before generating the changelog or triggering the release workflow.

Quick Start

Run the validation script to check all plugins:

scripts/check_release_readiness.py --all

Check a specific plugin:

scripts/check_release_readiness.py --plugin core

Release Workflow Integration

/plugin-release-checker   ← THIS: validates plugin content quality
    ↓ (all checks pass)
/changelog                ← generates CHANGELOG entry
    ↓
./scripts/release.sh X.Y.Z  ← handles git tag + GitHub Release

Checks Performed

Check	Description
Skill Validation	Run skill-validator across all skills in each plugin
Marketplace Sync	Verify all plugins in `plugins/` have entries in marketplace.json
Version Consistency	Check plugin.json versions match CHANGELOG entries
Cross-References	Detect broken links in SKILL.md → WORKFLOW.md, EXAMPLES.md, etc.
Required Files	Ensure each plugin has plugin.json and README.md
Frontmatter	Validate YAML frontmatter in agents, commands, and skills

Output

=== Plugin Release Readiness Report ===

Plugin: core (v2.0.0)
  ✓ All skills pass validation
  ✓ Marketplace entry found
  ✓ Version consistent with CHANGELOG
  ✓ No broken cross-references

Plugin: git (v1.0.0)
  ✗ Skill 'creating-commit': 1 error (SS002: SKILL.md exceeds 500 lines)
  ✓ Marketplace entry found
  ✓ Version consistent with CHANGELOG
  ✓ No broken cross-references

Summary: 9/10 plugins ready, 1 plugin has issues

Command Options

--all                    # Check all plugins (default)
--plugin NAME            # Check specific plugin
--skip-skill-validator   # Skip skill-validator (faster, less thorough)
--format {text,json}     # Output format

What ships with it: 4 files

43.0 KB alongside SKILL.md, 4 of them executable

scripts/

check_release_readiness.pyruns20.6 KB
validate_cross_references.pyruns11.0 KB
validate_reference_staleness.pyruns3.5 KB
validation_utils.pyruns7.8 KB

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most quality gates skills give in 445 tokens

Counted across 1,524 of the 2,830 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Read full output and check exit codein 45 of 1524, across 40 files
Verify output confirms the claimin 44 of 1524, across 39 files
Identify the command that proves the claimin 43 of 1524, across 39 files
Execute the full verification commandin 36 of 1524, across 30 files
Produce a verification reportin 34 of 1524, across 18 files
Review git diff changesin 30 of 1524, across 16 files
Fix build failures immediatelyin 29 of 1524, across 9 files
Group findings by severityin 28 of 1524
State claim only with evidencein 27 of 1524, across 22 files
Verify regression tests with red-green cyclein 26 of 1524, across 22 files
Run the full test suitein 26 of 1524, across 25 files
Run test suite with coveragein 25 of 1524, across 10 files

Said here and by no other author read

Run the release readiness script before generating changelogs
Check plugin version consistency against changelogs
Detect broken documentation cross-references

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.