## SkillGate v0.1.2 - Guided review workflows

[charliechenye]

Released 2026-07-09.

Added

• Added skillgate demo skill for a packaged deterministic Agent Skill review input that can be validated and scanned without executing helper files.
• Added guided review sessions for first local review, pre-install review, and policy/baseline approval workflows.
• Added skillgate mcpb scan for deterministic pre-install inspection of MCP bundles without executing server content.
• Added text, JSON, and SARIF MCPB reports with startup metadata, member scan state, embedded-artifact inventory, and optional bundle manifest output.
• Added composite Action inputs for scanning committed MCPB artifacts and emitting separate MCPB SARIF for GitHub code scanning.
• Added SG014 for MCPB startup and reference mismatches and SG015 for embedded executables and retained nested archives requiring review.
• Added skillgate --version for quick CLI identity checks.
• Added skillgate demo mcpb for a packaged deterministic first run MCPB demo with optional immediate scan output.
• Added a deterministic MCPB demo source fixture and builder for public scan reports and release smoke tests.
• Added skillgate skills validate for deterministic Agent Skills structure and metadata validation without code execution.
• Added Agent Skills validation fixtures and documentation covering frontmatter, tool declarations, local references, and misplaced executables.
• Added public scan report examples for a clean documentation skill, a remote download review item, and a reviewable MCPB bundle.
• Added a reusable, bounded ZIP inspection foundation with deterministic archive and member manifests for future MCPB pre-install scanning.
• Added fail-closed protections for unsafe paths, duplicate normalized entries, path type collisions, symlinks, special files, nested archives, unsupported compression, encryption, and resource limit violations.
• Added streaming archive and member hashing with automatic temporary file cleanup and no execution of extracted content.

Changed

• Bumped the Python and Node wrapper metadata to 0.1.2 for this release.
• Expanded first run README onboarding from one MCPB demo to paired Agent Skill and MCPB demos, with explicit reviewer decision checkpoints.
• Simplified README onboarding around pre-install scans, pre-merge scans, and policy enforcement before advanced workflows.
• Updated the release checklist with explicit PyPI, pipx, uvx, and yanking/rollback validation steps.
• Reorganized the archive inspection foundation into focused internal modules without changing its safety behavior, stable errors, or manifest contract.

Fixed

• Kept intentional demo and test findings visible in local and pull request scans while making SARIF Code Scanning publication non blocking for pull request CI.

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