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Skill Base Template v1.4.0

This release aligns generated repositories with GitHub CLI skill delivery, hardens the release contract, adds reusable evaluation and safety fixtures, and moves durable maintenance feedback to GitHub Issues.

Highlights

  • Replace the legacy src/SKILL.md layout with one canonical skills/<name>/SKILL.md tree and move maintenance fixtures outside the installed runtime.
  • Add GitHub CLI publication validation, public installation verification, checksums, attestations, beginner installation guidance, and runtime update scaffolding.
  • Make release archives deterministic across operating systems and verify checksums, archive inventory, CRC values, staged byte identity, forbidden paths, local material, and credential patterns.
  • Add final-tree preflight and immutable release-state checks that prevent reuse or movement of published release identities.
  • Generate an eight-case evaluation registry covering activation, primary workflow behavior, incomplete input, verification, instruction injection, destructive requests, public disclosure, and agent-surface drift.
  • Add generated testing and threat-model guidance that separates deterministic, behavioral, and human verification evidence.
  • Make GitHub Issues the durable maintenance and skill-run feedback surface while removing inherited planning and local feedback queues from generated repositories.

Why It Matters

Generated repositories now use the source layout that GitHub CLI discovers directly. Validation, packaging, installation checks, and documentation all derive the runtime from the same canonical skill tree, which prevents layout-only repair releases and stale path checks.

Release preparation now produces byte-stable archives and verifies the exact candidate identity before a tag is published. Generated workflows keep one release authority, preserve immutable tags, and check exact-tag installation before publication plus versionless installation and contained updates afterward.

The template now generates a reusable behavioral evaluation baseline and explicit safety fixtures. Future skill maintainers can distinguish deterministic checks from model behavior and human judgment while adapting the cases to the generated skill's actual capabilities.

Generated repositories now keep durable maintenance work in GitHub Issues. Disposable private drafts remain under ignored tmp/, and agents must sanitize and confirm public feedback before submission.

Notes

Release tag: v1.4.0.