bump-skill

Turn contract — verify before ending the turn

✓ Every changed skill's version: was bumped and BOTH changelogs got their rows
✓ The lint results (all 7 authoring rules, including the two machine-surface
  parity/ordering checks and the internal-skill discovery-exclusion check)
  were reported
✓ The git add + commit command block is printed as the ABSOLUTE last output

About to end the turn with any box unchecked? The turn is NOT done — complete the missing box first.

When to use

After any edit to one or more skills/<name>/SKILL.md files in this repo, before committing. Handles the full documentation surface so nothing drifts.

Step 0 — Orientation

This skill is specific to the agentic-workflow repository. Before doing anything, confirm you are in that repo (presence of skills/ + CHANGELOG.md

• CHANGELOG.md). If not, stop and tell the user.

Versioning policy (from CHANGELOG.md):

Bump	When
major	rename, removed/renamed flag, changed contract or output shape — ships with a migration note
minor	new backward-compatible capability: new flag, new section, new routing case
patch	wording, examples, clarifications, internal tidy — no behavior change

Process

Progressive loading

The reference allowlist is exactly the two paths below. After orientation:

1. Read change discovery and authoring lint.
2. For every discovered skill, read version and documentation sync.
3. Then print the summary below.

Both resources are normative and one hop from this file. Missing resource → stop; never guess a bump or skip a synchronization surface.

10. Print a summary and the next step

Print a table:

skill              old → new        bump
─────────────────────────────────────────
execute-phase      1.2.0 → 1.3.0   minor
unit-lane          1.0.0 → 1.0.1   patch

Then print the next step:

All documentation updated. Stage and commit:

git add skills/<name>/SKILL.md CHANGELOG.md README.md
git commit -m "chore(skills): bump <name> to <version> — <one-line reason>"

If this is a major bump with a migration note, also add docs/workflow/MIGRATION.md.

Guardrails

• Never change anything in a SKILL.md except the version: line.
• Never commit or push — this skill only edits files.
• If a skill file is not tracked by git (new file not yet added), note it and still update the SKILL.md version and CHANGELOG entries, but warn that the diff-based bump analysis is unavailable for untracked files — ask the user what changed.
• For the README cells, prefer updating over rewriting: keep the existing tone and length; change only what is factually wrong or missing.

Portability (agents other than Claude Code)

This skill is repo-maintenance for agentic-workflow itself, but the repo may be worked on from any agent:

• No slash-command menu — follow this SKILL.md directly after editing any skill, before committing.
• No per-skill model:/effort: — a mid-tier model is enough; this is mechanical version/changelog bookkeeping.

Relationship to other skills

• Run after any manual edit to a skill or after execute-phase touches a skill file, and before the commit.
• AGENTS.md section "Version every change" is the policy this skill enforces mechanically.
• Major bumps that introduce renames feed into docs/workflow/MIGRATION.md, which init-workspace reads when installing.

Done when

• Every modified skill's version: field is updated.
• CHANGELOG.md has a new row for every bumped skill, newest first.
• The README.md skills and model tables are accurate.
• Major bumps have a migration note and cross-reference updates.
• Any authoring-rule violations (missing → Next: block, S1/"Step" phase labels, a user-invocable: true skill absent from plugin.json, a non-alphabetical machine surface) are reported for the user to fix before committing.
• The next step is printed — the git add + git commit command, ready to run.