api-change-management SKILL.md skillA
api-change-management from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-change-management@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/apis/api-change-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,049 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Classify API changes as breaking or compatible, evolve additively, and gate breaking changes with compatibility tests. Use when changing an API and needing to know whether it breaks consumers.
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
# API change management Every API change is either safe (compatible: consumers keep working) or breaking (consumers break), and the single most valuable skill is telling them apart reliably. Get the taxonomy right, default to additive evolution, and enforce the classification with tests so a breaking change cannot ship by accident. ## Method 1. **Know the breaking-change taxonomy cold.** Breaking: removing or renaming a field/endpoint/parameter, changing a type, making an optional parameter required, tightening validation, changing a default, changing error codes or response structure, and (the sneakiest) changing semantics without changing the shape (a field that now means something different). Compatible: adding optional fields, adding endpoints, adding enum values (if consumers treat enums as open), relaxing validation (see schema-evolution: the same taxonomy across data and APIs). When unsure, treat it as breaking. 2. **Default to additive evolution.** Add new fields, endpoints, and optional parameters rather than changing existing ones; this covers the large majority of API growth without breaking anyone and without needing a new …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-change-management@sha256:9f7c4685aae1031eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 4,049 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.412065e | 2026-07-21 | 412065e | 4,053 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_we62xrzbvzl2czrv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-change-management GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9f7c4685aae1031e70e358164e809ee6ae891252f01b66a8aaafa9adecb265db
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