lifecycle

lifecycle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Sh3rd3n/megazord. It costs 18 tokens per session (3,593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A milestone lifecycle skill guides the end of one project milestone and preparation for the next. A milestone is a planned checkpoint in a project's progress.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing the current milestone, closing gaps, archiving it, collecting deferred tasks, and creating the next phases.
Why use it?
It brings verification, archiving, unfinished work, and next-version planning into one guided flow.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the mz plugin — 16 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/sh3rd3n/megazord/lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add Sh3rd3n/megazord --skill lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sh3rd3n/megazord

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mz, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 16 commands, 6 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for lifecycle

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sh3rd3n/megazord/lifecycle.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sh3rd3n/megazord/lifecycle)
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,593 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 $0.00018 $0.03593
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01796
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00719
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00359

Measured 4d ago against content hash bef6f7f7e6e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lifecycle 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/lifecycle/SKILL.md · 439 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 439 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/mz:lifecycle

Orchestrate the full milestone lifecycle: audit verification status, archive the current milestone, collect deferred items, and prepare the next version. Uses existing CLI tools (milestone audit, milestone archive, milestone create, roadmap list, roadmap add-phase) as the execution backbone while providing a guided interactive experience.

Note: This skill handles the entire end-of-milestone flow in a single entry point. When audit finds gaps, it proposes gap-closure phases and exits. When audit passes, it proceeds through archive, deferred item collection, and next-version preparation.

Reference @skills/init/design-system.md for visual output formatting. Reference @skills/shared/presentation-standards.md for content formatting rules. Reference @skills/shared/terminology.md for official term definitions.

Step 1: Display Banner

Output the stage banner:

+===============================================+
|  MEGAZORD > LIFECYCLE                         |
+===============================================+

Step 2: Load Context and Validate

Read .planning/megazord.config.json. If missing, display error and stop:

## Error

Project not initialized — no megazord.config.json found.

`/mz:init`

If config exists, continue loading:

  • Read .planning/STATE.md for current position.
  • Read .planning/ROADMAP.md for phase details.
  • Read .planning/MILESTONE.md if it exists (for version detection and phase scope).

Determine the plugin path for CLI commands:

  1. Read plugin_path from the config JSON.
  2. If plugin_path is not set in config, try ~/.claude/plugins/mz. Check if ~/.claude/plugins/mz/bin/megazord.mjs exists.
  3. If neither exists, display error and stop:
## Error

Plugin path not configured.

`/mz:settings` to set plugin_path, or `/mz:init` to re-initialize.

Parse the user's message (text after /mz:lifecycle) for arguments:

  • --skip-audit -- bypass the audit step entirely (for informal projects)
  • {version} -- specify the milestone version to archive (optional; auto-detected from MILESTONE.md if present)

Read the full file on GitHub · 439 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 · 439 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A bef6f7f7e6e2

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lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sh3rd3n/megazord (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 3,593 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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