# Release It (agent skill)

> Release It is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from ciembor/agent-rules-books. Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot and has 2,921 GitHub stars across a repository of 3 listed skills.

Apply Michael T. Nygard-inspired production reliability rules when designing failure handling, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, observability, or deployment behavior. Use this skill when a task involves production reliability, integration failure, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, observability, capacity, deployment, or operational readiness.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books |
| Skill path | release-it/SKILL.md |
| Skill name | release-it |
| GitHub stars | 2,921 |
| Installs on skills.sh | not listed |
| License | MIT |
| Skills in repo | 3 |
| Plugin marketplace | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot |
| Category | DevOps & cloud |
| Last commit | Sep 10, 2026 |

## Add this skill

### Claude Code

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/release-it ~/.claude/skills/release-it   # personal, or .claude/skills in a project
```

In the Claude apps, zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).

### ChatGPT / Codex

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/release-it .agents/skills/release-it   # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projects
```

### Cursor

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git
cp -r agent-rules-books/release-it .cursor/skills/release-it   # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projects
```

Sources (checked 2026-10-07): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills, https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude, https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills, https://cursor.com/docs/context/skills

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