v4.0.0-rc.1 — Verbs

Released: 2026-07-11

Release candidate. Panda Verbs is the public skill pack. Personal context,
memory, runtimes, schedulers, connectors, and project truth stay with the host.

Breaking

• Product, repository, plugin, and namespace rename to Panda Verbs,
  panda-verbs, verbs@verbs, and /verbs:*.
• /pandastack:* has no alias. Claude Code and Codex must remove the old plugin
  before installing verbs@verbs; otherwise stale v3 policies remain active.
• /ship knowledge and the knowledge-ship alias moved out of the public pack.
  Knowledge lifecycle and persistence belong to the host's knowledge system.
• scripts/verbs-state, scripts/pandastack-state, and the project lifecycle
  store are removed. State belongs to the host/project.

Changed

• The product definition is now one sentence: "An opinionated skill pack for
  taking software work from ambiguity to verified delivery."
• manifest.toml owns the complete product dictionary. scripts/verbs sync
  deterministically generates all Claude, Codex, and Agents loader metadata.
• Automatic plugin hooks are removed. DISPATCH.md and the reference guard
  scripts remain available for hosts that opt in explicitly.
• verbs doctor checks the 14-skill source surface and installed plugin parity.
  The retired capability map, ticket/worktree policy hook, lifecycle state
  helper, and /loop driver kickoff are gone.
• Claude Code and Codex both use their real local marketplace installers.
  Hermes remains selective manual import; OpenClaw is experimental.

Compatibility

• scripts/pandastack remains a one-line RC forwarding shim with a deprecation
  notice on stderr. The old state CLI has no v4 replacement.
• PANDASTACK_VERIFY_GATE remains an RC fallback when the new variable is
  unset for hosts that wire the optional verify adapter.
• GitHub's old repository URL redirects after the rename. Recreating the old
  repository name is intentionally unsupported because it breaks that redirect.
• Migration pins v3.4.2 commit
  8d9a382b74d5b3e0ef0b6e91375fab3a172a916f as an immutable rollback
  checkout through the RC dogfood window.

Verified

• Generated metadata fails red on product id, repository, hero, category,
  version, or skill-surface drift.
• Automated preflight proves the packaged tree and synthetic cache scanner.
  The RC operator gate separately installs the exact tagged checkout in
  disposable Claude and Codex profiles before the tag is pushed.
• Prerelease tags publish with --prerelease --latest=false; archives and their
  SHA-256 checksums use the panda-verbs-v<version> prefix.

v0.6.0 — Portable Skills, Native Hooks

Released: 2026-07-11

Added

• The recommended Marketplace Plugin surface for Claude Code and Codex now
  registers the SessionStart dispatch adapter, Bash PreToolUse destructive
  guard, and Stop verification gate.
• The full 14-skill pack is self-contained for portable installation. Each
  skill carries its declared resources and composition edges without depending
  on shared root files.

Install

Recommended Marketplace Plugin:

claude plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --scope user
claude plugin install verbs@verbs --scope user

codex plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --json
codex plugin add verbs@verbs --json

Portable, hook-free skills:

npx skills@latest add panda850819/verbs -a claude-code codex -g -y

Choose one surface per host profile. Installing both creates duplicate skill
discovery and an ambiguous hook contract.

Boundary

• Verbs owns the skill pack and its narrow native hook adapters. The host owns
  identity, brain or memory, scheduling, project truth, and global model
  routing. Hermes remains a selective manual import.

Distribution

• The GitHub release remains metadata-only with zero custom release assets.
  GitHub's standard source archives remain available.

Verified

• The public npx skills command found and installed all 14 skills into
  disposable Claude Code and Codex targets. All 36 declared resources and 7
  directional companion edges resolved inside the installed payload.
• Claude Code and Codex both passed a same-profile
  v0.5.0 → v0.6.0 → v0.5.0 reinstall cycle. The installed v0.6 hook tree
  passed all 27 contract checks; Claude's component inventory reported exactly
  three registered hooks, and Codex discovered the same three hooks and
  triggered SessionStart from the installed plugin.

v0.5.0 — Verbs

Released: 2026-07-11

Changed

• The product name is Verbs. The repository, display name, and canonical
  environment prefix are now panda850819/verbs, Verbs, and VERBS_.
• The active roadmap now tracks a small 0.x evidence line and explicit v1.0
  gates. The retired persona, vault, personal-OS, and lifecycle milestones no
  longer appear as current work.
• v0.5.0 begins a new Verbs version epoch. Existing v1.* and
  v4.0.0-rc.1 tags/releases remain immutable legacy history.

Install

Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --scope user
claude plugin install verbs@verbs --scope user

Codex:

codex plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --json
codex plugin add verbs@verbs --json

Generic npx skills installation is not advertised yet. It discovers the 14
skills but drops shared root contracts when it installs each skill directory in
isolation. Self-contained generic installs are tracked in
#189.

Compatibility

• Moving from 4.0.0-rc.1 to 0.5.0 is an explicit uninstall/reinstall;
  SemVer sorts 0.5.0 below the RC, so an ordinary upgrade is unsafe.
• VERBS_* is canonical. Documented PANDA_VERBS_* path and verify-gate
  variables remain read-only fallbacks through v0.5.x. The retired
  scripts/pandastack shim also forwards its two legacy path variables.
• The plugin selector and namespace stay verbs@verbs and /verbs:*.

Claude Code reinstall:

claude plugin uninstall verbs@verbs --scope user --keep-data
claude plugin marketplace remove verbs --scope user
claude plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --scope user
claude plugin install verbs@verbs --scope user

Codex reinstall:

codex plugin remove verbs@verbs --json
codex plugin marketplace remove verbs
codex plugin marketplace add panda850819/verbs --json
codex plugin add verbs@verbs --json

Distribution

• GitHub Releases contain the changelog and install commands, with no custom
  tarball or checksum. GitHub's standard source archives remain available.
• Exact-tag archive extraction stays an internal test of the packaged tree; an
  asset is added only when a separate consumer needs its own format.

Verified

• Manifest-driven Claude, Codex, and Agents metadata agree on version 0.5.0,
  repository identity, and the exact 14-skill surface.
• Release preflight extracts and tests the exact tagged tree before the
  annotated tag is pushed, while the public release remains metadata-only.
• Disposable Claude and Codex profiles install and invoke the exact tagged
  artifact; real profiles use the same explicit reinstall path.