version-bump-rules

version-bump-rules is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from avizmarlon/agent-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping a software project's version number current. It applies semantic versioning, where the version's three parts indicate breaking changes, new features, and fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing release versions, preparing deployments, updating changelogs, or deciding whether a change is major, minor, or a patch release.
Why use it?
It prevents released changes from being separated from their version update and accounts for projects that store versions in different files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when changing release versions, preparing deployments, updating changelogs, or deciding whether a change is major, minor, or a patch release.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/avizmarlon/agent-skills/version-bump-rules
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add avizmarlon/agent-skills --skill version-bump-rules
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/avizmarlon/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 879 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00075 $0.00879
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash b3c49881aac3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-bump-rules scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/version-bump-rules/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Control — Mandatory Practice

Every software project must maintain a version number. Every change that reaches production or main branch must bump the version in the same commit — no exceptions, no deferral.

Where version lives (by project type)

Project Type Version File Location
Node.js / npm package package.json"version" field
WXT (browser extension) wxt.config.tsmanifest: { version: "x.y.z" } — NOT package.json
Monorepo (multiple packages) each affected package.json + manifest.json if extension
Python pyproject.toml[project] version OR __version__ in __init__.py
Rust / Cargo Cargo.tomlversion field
Mobile (Expo) app.json / app.config.tsversion + buildNumber / versionCode
Bash / Python script (standalone) comment at top: # v1.2.3
Custom setup (no standard file) VERSION file in root, one line
Critical: WXT extension gotcha

Browser extensions built with WXT read the version from wxt.config.ts in the manifest block, not from package.json. Bumping only package.json leaves the manifest at the old version, so users see stale version info in the browser extension UI.

Always verify wxt.config.ts when working with WXT projects.

Semantic versioning rules

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
  │      │     └── bug fix, cosmetic adjustment, refactor with no external impact
  │      └──────── new feature, backwards-compatible (new behavior, new UI, new integration)
  └─────────────── breaking change (removed behavior, changed public interface, mandatory migration)

When in doubt between MINOR and PATCH? If the end user will notice → MINOR. If only internal code changed → PATCH.

Anti-patterns (mandatory to avoid)

  • Committing a new feature without bumping the version → forbidden
  • "I'll bump it later" → deferral is not allowed. Bump in the same commit or merge commit
  • Version frozen at 0.0.1 while product evolves → traceability failure
  • Multiple packages in a monorepo with different versions without justification → align them if they release together

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 65 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A b3c49881aac3

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version-bump-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository avizmarlon/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 879 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.