v1.0.4 - Expanded accessibility capabilities

Changelog

1.0.4

Accessibility capability update

• Preserve the original seven accessibility workflows and expand their coverage for content,
  tables, forms/error recovery, authentication/repeated entry, status/progress, complex widgets,
  keyboard/focus, visual modes/reflow, pointer/drag, media and timing.
• Keep all six detailed review procedures in a11y-review, selected with
  --mode interactive|contrast|color|links|modes|viewports|all.
• Combine audit and read-only review responsibilities in the a11y agent, preserving source
  ownership, dependency/version investigation, sampling limits and exact candidate evidence.
• Consolidate shared instructions, all 55 WCAG 2.2 A/AA criteria, WCAG 2.1 boundaries, ten
  inspection families, ten repair families, twenty verification scenarios and optional private
  policy templates in .developer/config/accessibility.md.
• Add portable prereq-check and plugin-version-check workflows with read-only verification
  and explicit approval before installation, authentication or update execution.
• Update generated adapters, documentation and catalog: 38 skills and 20 agents.
• Keep FastPass, Lighthouse, internal-only integrations and the held execution framework excluded.

Migration notes

This patch version was explicitly selected for the release. It includes public naming/path
changes; review these before upgrading:

• Select a11y instead of a11y-tester for the combined agent. There is no separate
  a11y-reviewer agent.
• Replace standalone a11y-review-<mode> invocations, if adopted from the development branch,
  with a11y-review --mode <mode>.
• Use .developer/config/accessibility.md instead of the former separate accessibility
  guidance documents. Copy only its relevant optional template sections into private files.
  Existing accessibility_standard_file and screen_reader_notes_file configuration keys
  and private policy files remain supported; defaults remain unset.
• Independent verification and the existing diff advocate remain separate; the repair author
  cannot certify their own work as independently verified.

Package validation and publication

Release validation covers the source checkout and an extracted npm tarball. Source-only website/
adapter integration tests are explicitly skipped in the package, where those files are not shipped;
canonical inventory, coverage and workflow checks still run.

No dependency or data migration is required. Publication uses the existing GitHub release-triggered
npm workflow; verify the registry reports the intended version before announcing availability.

Rollback

If needed, explicitly install developer-assistant-skills@1.0.3 and restore the previous plugin
release using the host's supported procedure. This removes the expanded 1.0.4 guidance and restores
the previous agent/template names. Keep private configuration backups and reverify host discovery.
Do not roll back to 1.0.2 when exclusion of local-only files is required.

Release validation evidence

• Merged release commit: ae64d47.
• CI: https://github.com/deepakkamboj/developer-assistant-skills/actions/runs/40446009188 (success).
• Source tests: 21 passed; 38 skills and 20 agents validated.
• Local tarball extraction/testing: not executed because tool approval was unavailable; explicitly waived by the repository owner for this publication.

v1.0.3 - Exclude local-only automation files

Local-only file exclusions

• Exclude .github/automations/ and usage.md from the npm package.
• Keep these paths ignored and untracked in the source tree while preserving existing local copies.
• Remove repository test dependencies and shared documentation links to these local-only files.
• Add a package allowlist regression guard and retain the shared accessibility skill checks.
• Synchronize npm, plugin and marketplace versions to 1.0.3.

Validation

• All 12 contract checks pass in both the checkout and extracted npm package.
• Structural validation passes for 36 skills and 20 agents.
• The tarball contains 87 files and neither local-only path.
• Release is based on main after PRs #4 and #3 were merged.

Install

npm install -g developer-assistant-skills@1.0.3

Scope

This release does not remove files from previously published npm versions, old Git commits or existing release tags. Version 1.0.2 still contains the former copies.
No migrations or dependency changes are required. If rolling back, note that version 1.0.2 reintroduces those packaged files; do not use it when their exclusion is required.

v1.0.2 - Evidence-led accessibility repairs

Accessibility investigation and verification

• Strengthen all seven accessibility skills with evidence-led diagnosis, bounded repairs and explicit non-fix outcomes.
• Trace multi-repository applications through shared controls to the exact loaded dependency version.
• Distinguish Fluent UI v8 from v9; require same-version reproduction before assigning upstream ownership, and approval for upgrades or migrations.
• Verify the original scenario on the exact candidate build with required browser/assistive-technology evidence.
• Correct static-analysis false positives, toggle-button semantics and manual-only AT regression requirements.
• Separate verified fixes, incomplete work and carried outcomes in reports.

Automation and packaging

• Add configuration-driven scheduled fixing and independent validation templates.
• Include automation templates, contract checks and evaluation fixtures in the npm package.
• Synchronize npm, plugin and marketplace versions to 1.0.2.

Validation

• Structural validation: 36 skills and 20 agents.
• All 12 instruction contract checks pass in the repository and extracted npm tarball.
• 22 behavioral evaluation fixtures are included; they have not been executed against a model or live product/AT environment.

Upgrade

Install with npm install -g developer-assistant-skills@1.0.2.
Refresh the installed plugin and re-import saved Copilot automation prompts separately.
Review the new configuration-driven prompt settings and version-2 handoff before enabling scheduled writes.

Rollback

Pin developer-assistant-skills@1.0.1 and restore the previously reviewed scheduled prompt configuration if needed.
This release does not merge its release branch into main automatically; the version and packaging commit remains available on release/v1.0.2 for human review.

v1.0.1

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

v1.0.0 — developer-assistant-skills

First public release.

developer-assistant-skills — a vendor-neutral, open-source developer plugin for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex.

Highlights

• 34 skills across 10 lifecycle groups: requirements, architecture, design, development, review, testing (+ Playwright), accessibility, debugging, devops, repo.
• 20 agents — 15 independent review critics + 5 orchestrating leads/gates (supervisor, traceability-keeper, bug-exterminator, repair-validator, a11y-tester).
• Closed-loop (EASE-MAS): orchestrator + traceability graph + bounded, gated autonomous repair. Merge stays human-owned.
• CLI-first, MCP-fallback tooling (gh, az, npx playwright, npx axe).
• dev-skills CLI, generated slash-command adapters (/dev: for Claude, / for Copilot), MIT licensed.
• Docs site: https://deepakkamboj.github.io/developer-assistant-skills/

Install

npm install developer-assistant-skills