breaking-change-detection

breaking-change-detection is a skill for Claude Code from sigistry/marketplace. It costs 73 tokens per session (874 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for deciding whether a software change is a breaking change under Semantic Versioning, the versioning system where major, minor, and patch numbers signal different levels of change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess public APIs, configuration, command-line interfaces, HTTP endpoints, and other consumer-facing changes before choosing a version bump.
Why use it?
It focuses on how changes affect users and other software, including behavior that may break even when code still compiles.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the release-conductor plugin — 2 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess public APIs, configuration, command-line interfaces, HTTP endpoints, and other consumer-facing changes before choosing a version bump.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sigistry/marketplace/breaking-change-detection
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 sigistry/marketplace --skill breaking-change-detection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sigistry/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install release-conductor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 5 commands, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 874 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.
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 $0.00073 $0.00874
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00437
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00087

Measured 7d ago against content hash 94b4f13ccd83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

breaking-change-detection 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 7d 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.

plugins/release-conductor/skills/breaking-change-detection/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breaking Change Detection

Purpose

Standardize how a change is classified against Semantic Versioning by reasoning about its effect on consumers, including behavioral breaks that leave the syntax intact. Humans get binary compatibility right only about 60% of the time; this methodology closes the gap with an explicit decision matrix and per-ecosystem catalogs. Tech-agnostic.

First: is the change on the public surface?

Only changes to the public API surface can be breaking or minor. Establish the surface before classifying (detailed per ecosystem in references/breaking-change-catalog.md):

Ecosystem Public surface
JS/TS package.json exports/main, named/default exports, .d.ts
Python __all__, non-_ names, entry points
Go Capitalized identifiers outside internal/
Java/C# public/protected members of exported packages
Rust pub items reachable from the crate root
CLI flags, subcommands, arg order, exit codes, stdout format
HTTP routes, methods, request/response schema, status codes
GraphQL types, fields, args, nullability, enum values
Config recognized keys, env vars, defaults

A change entirely within private/internal code is at most a PATCH.

The decision matrix

Change Classification
Remove/rename a public export, field, route, flag, env var MAJOR
Change a signature (add required param, reorder, retype, change return type) MAJOR
Change a default value that alters observable behavior MAJOR
Make validation stricter (reject formerly-valid input) MAJOR
Change output shape, field names, units, or serialization MAJOR
Change/narrow error or exception types, or HTTP status codes MAJOR
Remove an enum value or change its meaning MAJOR
Add a new public export/endpoint/optional param/flag MINOR
Add an optional field to output (additive) MINOR
Loosen validation (accept more input) MINOR (usually)
Deprecate without removing MINOR
Bug fix restoring documented behavior PATCH
Performance improvement, no behavior change PATCH
Internal refactor, docs, tests, CI PATCH / no release

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 7d ago First seen · 68 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 94b4f13ccd83

Subscribe to this mod's changes

breaking-change-detection is a skill published in the GitHub repository sigistry/marketplace (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 874 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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