skill-lifecycle-management

skill-lifecycle-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BuilderCed/agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing the full life of a coding-agent skill, from drafting and publishing through maintenance, deprecation, and archiving. It also describes semantic versioning, a numbering system for communicating changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when publishing versions, updating skills after changes, monitoring freshness, reviewing quality, generating changelogs, or retiring skills.
Why use it?
It gives repository maintainers a consistent way to track outdated skills, record changes, and decide when a skill should no longer be used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/builderced/agent-skills/skill-lifecycle-management
Any agent
npx skills add BuilderCed/agent-skills --skill skill-lifecycle-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuilderCed/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 862 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00029 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 4d ago against content hash d356d7bb6df8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-lifecycle-management 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 4d 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/governance/skill-lifecycle-management/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Lifecycle Management

When to Use

  • Publishing a new skill to a registry
  • Updating a skill after regulatory or API changes
  • Deciding whether to deprecate or archive a skill
  • Setting up freshness monitoring
  • Reviewing skill quality over time

Lifecycle Stages

Draft → Review → Published → Maintained → Stale → Deprecated → Archived
Stage Duration Actions
Draft Days Write, test locally, self-review
Review Days PR review, CI lint, security scan
Published Indefinite Available for installation
Maintained Ongoing Respond to issues, update for changes
Stale >90 days no update Flag [STALE], prioritize review
Deprecated Announced Mark deprecated, point to replacement
Archived Final Read-only, no longer maintained

Versioning (SemVer)

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

MAJOR: Breaking changes (renamed fields, removed sections, new required dependencies)
MINOR: New content (added steps, new references, expanded coverage)
PATCH: Fixes (typos, URL updates, date corrections)

Examples:

  • 1.0.0 → 1.0.1: Fixed broken URL in references
  • 1.0.1 → 1.1.0: Added new section on DORA RTS
  • 1.1.0 → 2.0.0: Restructured skill, changed frontmatter fields

Freshness Rules

Age Status Action
< 30 days Fresh No action
30-60 days OK Review if regulatory
60-90 days Review needed Check update_sources
> 90 days [STALE] Mandatory review before use

Regulatory skills: Review whenever source legislation changes, regardless of age.

Changelog Format

## [1.1.0] - 2026-04-17
### Added
- Section on DORA RTS Level 2 requirements
- Reference to new EDPB DPIA template (April 2026)

### Changed
- Updated e-invoicing timeline (September 2026 confirmed)

### Fixed
- Corrected NIS2 transposition deadline

Deprecation Process

  1. Announce: Add deprecated: true to frontmatter + reason
  2. Point: Reference replacement skill in description
  3. Grace period: Keep available for 90 days
  4. Archive: Move to skills/_archived/ directory

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 4d ago First seen · 110 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A d356d7bb6df8

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skill-lifecycle-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository BuilderCed/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 862 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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