version-bump-advisor

version-bump-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from murphytrueman/design-system-ops. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide that recommends whether a design-system change should be a major, minor, or patch version under semantic versioning. It also explains the decision and drafts a changelog entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a git diff, pull-request description, planned change, or API modification and determine the appropriate release version and consumer notes.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to decide whether a change breaks existing users, adds functionality, or only fixes an issue, reducing release-version debates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the design-system-ops plugin — 36 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a git diff, pull-request description, planned change, or API modification and determine the appropriate release version and consumer notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/murphytrueman/design-system-ops/version-bump-advisor
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 murphytrueman/design-system-ops --skill version-bump-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/murphytrueman/design-system-ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-system-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 4 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,565 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00071 $0.02565
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01026
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00513
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00257

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9bb802892f3f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-bump-advisor 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 1mo 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-advisor/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Bump Advisor

Before you begin: verify references

Confirm that every path in this skill's frontmatter references: exists relative to this SKILL.md. If any is missing, stop: the install is incomplete, usually because a flattening installer (for example npx skills install) dropped the repo-root knowledge-notes/ directory. Tell the user to reinstall by a method in 1-INSTALL.md and run verify-install.sh from the install root. Proceed without the references only if the user explicitly says to, and then say in the output that it was produced without the pack's reference material.

Context

Design system versioning is a persistent source of team friction. Breaking changes are called minor because they "just affect two components." Minor improvements trigger unnecessary major bumps because someone worries about change. And the reasoning is never written down, so every release prompts the same debate.

This skill removes the subjectivity by applying a consistent classification framework to every change, then generating a changelog entry and reasoning that the team can trust. When the next release ships, there's a record of why it was a major and what consumers need to change.

This is the pack's single source for semver calls. Other skills (change-communication, contribution-workflow, deprecation-process, decision-record) point here rather than classifying changes themselves.

Steps

0. Establish the baseline

If you have repository access, read the current version from the package's package.json (each published package, in a monorepo) so the recommendation names the actual next version. Then diff the exported surface between the last release tag and the change: exported component names, prop types and defaults from the published type definitions (.d.ts or the types entry), token names, CSS custom properties, and the exports map in package.json. A change list from the user is a starting point; the diff is what catches the removal nobody mentioned. If you can't read either, say so and classify from the change list alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 1mo ago Changed · -8 lines 9bb802892f3f
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines · -1 tokens per session 6b107baf0d99
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 138 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A e29d561e16be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-bump-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository murphytrueman/design-system-ops (211 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,565 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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