versioning-policy SKILL.md skillA

versioning-policy from bradygaster/squad is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add bradygaster/squad/versioning-policy@git:20260910.9cf5842

Pins git:20260910.9cf5842 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
bradygaster/squad
Path
.squad-templates/skills/versioning-policy/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260910.9cf5842, committed Sep 10, 2026
Size
4,783 bytes
Repository stars
3,298
License
MIT

SemVer rules for Squad's stable, preview, insider, and local package versions.

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

## Context

Squad publishes `@bradygaster/squad-sdk` and
`@bradygaster/squad-cli` from one npm workspace. Their versions and the root
version move together. A mismatched prerelease dependency can make npm silently
resolve an older registry SDK instead of the local workspace.

## 1. Supported versions

| Use | Version | Committed branch |
|---|---|---|
| Stable release | `MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH` | `main`, and briefly `dev` during promotion |
| Preview release | `MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-preview.N` | `dev` |
| Insider snapshot | `MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-insider.N` | Generated by the insider workflow |
| Local build | `MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH-build.N` | Never committed |

`preview` is a release channel, not a branch. Stable promotion merges a
sanitized release tree directly from `dev` to `main`.

## 2. Package versions stay in lockstep

These versions must always be identical:

- `package.json`
- `packages/squad-sdk/package.json`
- `packages/squad-cli/package.json`
- the corresponding workspace entries in `package-lock.json`

Use the workspace-aware version command:

```bash
npm version "$VERSION" --workspaces --include-workspace-root --no-git-tag-version
```

Never edit only one package version.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add bradygaster/squad/versioning-policy@sha256:7e35d50b19457b5e

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.9cf5842, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_nbkhlmvbj6vyxzgp.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_nbkhlmvbj6vyxzgp)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 10, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260910.9cf5842 latest2026-09-10 9cf5842 4,783 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4783 bytes)
  • 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

GitHub

bradygaster/squad · 3,298 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch dev

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nbkhlmvbj6vyxzgp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bradygaster/squad/versioning-policy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7e35d50b19457b5e2595d49533cb0593bfacb9d2db877ea3f24a91a3b087720c

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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versioning-policy SKILL.md skill
bradygaster/squad · packages/squad-cli/templates/skills/versioning-policy/SKILL.md · SemVer rules for Squad's stable, preview, insider, and local package versions
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