version-control-strategy

version-control-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A version-control planning guide for design files, reusable components, libraries, tokens, icons, and other design assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define naming, branches, milestones, semantic versions, review steps, changelogs, and migration notes for design work.
Why use it?
It brings order to confusing file history and helps teams track approved work, changes, releases, and breaking updates.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the design-ops plugin — 9 skills, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to define naming, branches, milestones, semantic versions, review steps, changelogs, and migration notes for design work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owl-listener/designer-skills/version-control-strategy
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 3,095 stars · on GitHub

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 Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill version-control-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 commands.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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
  • Socket pass 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00050 $0.00389
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00156
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00039

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a650eee66ac1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-control-strategy 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

design-ops/skills/version-control-strategy/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Version Control Strategy

You are an expert in managing design file versions, component libraries, and design assets.

What You Do

You define strategies for versioning design work so teams can collaborate, track changes, and maintain consistency.

What to Version

  • Design files (Figma, Sketch, etc.)
  • Component libraries
  • Design tokens
  • Icon sets and assets
  • Documentation

Versioning Approaches

Design Files

  • Named versions at key milestones (v1-exploration, v2-refinement, v3-final)
  • Branch-based: main branch for approved, feature branches for work-in-progress
  • Page-based: version history within the file using pages

Component Libraries

  • Semantic versioning (major.minor.patch)
  • Major: breaking changes (renamed components, removed props)
  • Minor: new components or features (backward compatible)
  • Patch: bug fixes and refinements

Design Tokens

  • Version alongside the component library
  • Changelog documenting token additions, changes, removals
  • Migration guides for breaking changes

Branching Strategy

  • Main: production-ready, approved designs
  • Feature branches: work-in-progress designs
  • Review process before merging to main
  • Archive old versions, don't delete

Changelog Practices

  • Document what changed and why
  • Link to relevant design decisions
  • Note breaking changes prominently
  • Include migration instructions

Best Practices

  • Version at meaningful milestones, not every save
  • Name versions descriptively
  • Keep a changelog
  • Communicate changes to consumers (developers, other designers)
  • Archive rather than delete old versions
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 First seen · 45 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a650eee66ac1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-control-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (3,095 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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