version-bump

A release helper for the Claude Code Handbook monorepo, a repository containing multiple related plugins. It updates a plugin’s version number as a major, minor, or patch release.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect current plugin versions, choose which plugin to update, and apply the requested release increment across one or more plugins.
Why use it?
It keeps version changes in the correct plugin manifest and avoids treating the marketplace registry as the version source.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 877 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 $0.00048 $0.00877
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00088

Measured 3d ago against content hash e19b9b9d3455, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-bump 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/bump_version.py, scripts/validate_versions.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/version-bump/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Bump Skill

Per-plugin version bumping for the Claude Code Handbook monorepo. Each plugin can have independent versions.

When to Use This Skill

Trigger this skill when users mention:

  • "bump version" or "bump the version"
  • "increment version" or "update version numbers"
  • Any mention of "major", "minor", or "patch" version changes

Version Locations

Single source of truth: plugins/<name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

The marketplace.json is a lightweight registry (no version field) — versions live only in plugin.json.

Workflow Instructions

Step 1: List Current Versions

Show current plugin versions:

python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/validate_versions.py

Step 2: Ask User Which Plugin(s) to Bump

Ask the user:

  1. Which plugin(s) to bump (can be multiple, or "all")
  2. Which bump type: major, minor, or patch

Step 3: Execute Version Bump

Run the script with the selected plugins:

# Single plugin
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py <bump_type> --plugin <name>

# Multiple plugins
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py <bump_type> --plugin <name1> --plugin <name2>

# All plugins
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py <bump_type> --all

Step 4: Report Results

After successful completion, display:

  • Plugins bumped with old → new versions
  • Next steps for git commit

CLI Reference

# Show help
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py --help

# Error + list plugins when no --plugin flag
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py patch

# Bump specific plugin(s)
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py patch --plugin handbook-dotnet
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py minor --plugin handbook --plugin handbook-extras

# Bump all plugins (legacy monorepo behavior)
python .claude/skills/version-bump/scripts/bump_version.py patch --all

Examples

Example 1: Bump Single Plugin

User: "Bump the version for handbook-dotnet"
Claude: "I'll check current versions first..."

[Runs validate_versions.py]

Claude: "handbook-dotnet is currently at 1.19.5. What bump type: major, minor, or patch?"
User: "patch"

[Runs: python bump_version.py patch --plugin handbook-dotnet]

Claude: "Done!
  handbook-dotnet: 1.19.5 → 1.19.6

Next steps:
1. git diff
2. git add . && git commit -m 'chore: bump handbook-dotnet to 1.19.6'"

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 124 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A e19b9b9d3455

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-bump is a skill published in the GitHub repository NikiforovAll/claude-code-rules (141 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 877 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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