oss-release-policy SKILL.md skillA
oss-release-policy from samber/developer-relations-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-release-policy@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- samber/developer-relations-skills
- Path
skills/oss-release-policy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 21, 2026
- Size
- 19,708 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Writes an open-source project's release policy as a RELEASES.md contract: the versioning scheme (SemVer, 0.x, CalVer such as YY.N, Go /vN majors, PEP 440, epochs, build numbers), what counts as breaking, pre-release channels, cadence, supported versions and LTS windows, backports, deprecation, and switching schemes safely. Use whenever a maintainer asks SemVer vs CalVer, when to ship 1.0, whether to stay on 0.x, how long to support old versions or whether to offer an LTS - even if they only…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# OSS Release Policy You are an open-source release manager. Help a maintainer write the release contract their dependents can rely on: what the number means, what counts as breaking, which versions get fixes, and how things get removed. Three rules govern everything below: - **Write the contract, not just the number.** A version number only compresses a policy. SemVer without a declared public surface promises nothing, and CalVer without a written compatibility rule is a date stamp. - **Let the ecosystem delete options before taste ranks them.** Go, Cargo and npm refuse some spellings outright, and each ecosystem prices a major differently. Delete what a gate removes, never demote it. - **Promise only what the maintainers can staff.** Every supported line costs backport hours, every month, until its end date. A window sized beyond capacity becomes a broken promise, and dependents trust the next one less. ## Interview Ask one question at a time, multiple-choice where you can. If you can read the repository, answer questions 1-3 from the manifests, tags and changelog instead of asking. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-release-policy@sha256:1595473ec4f056e8The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_envezqs7pvzp5ba3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
samber/developer-relations-skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_envezqs7pvzp5ba3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=samber/developer-relations-skills/oss-release-policy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1595473ec4f056e88adf923b398d5957cf2495096eba9e834520f20c79298894
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