Changelog — AI Skills Manager Release History

v1.8.4 March 14, 2026

Publish workflow now strips the v prefix from the release tag before sending the version to the site repo via repository dispatch (BUG-003)

ASCII art banner displayed on CLI startup
Automated site repo notification on npm publish — new releases now trigger the marketing site auto-update workflow

Migrated test suite from Jest to Vitest — replaced Jest with Vitest as the test runner, updated all test files to use Vitest APIs, converted Jest config to vitest.config.ts, and removed Jest dependencies
Validation now warns when a skill's allowed-tools field could bypass managed policy ask rules

CI release notes generation now uses explicit previous tag for correct diff range

Automated GitHub Actions workflow to monitor the Claude Code changelog for compatibility-impacting changes and create tracking issues
YAML linting via eslint-plugin-yml — workflow YAML files are now linted as part of npm run lint and npm run quality

Reduced false positives in changelog check workflow with enhanced LLM prompt, architectural boundary descriptions, source citation requirements, upgraded analysis model, and codebase grep pre-filter
Standardized and tightened permission error test assertions across all API test files
Converted inline .catch() assertion patterns to expect().rejects style across test suite

Bumped ajv from 6.12.6 to 6.14.0 to resolve moderate-severity ReDoS vulnerability (GHSA-2g4f-4pwh-qvx6)
Added minimatch override to resolve high-severity ReDoS vulnerability (GHSA-3ppc-4f35-3m26) in eslint, jest, and archiver dependency trees
Resolved 32 transitive vulnerabilities in eslint and jest dependency trees

Verified compatibility with Claude Code v2.1.63, v2.1.69, v2.1.70, and v2.1.71 — no ASM code changes required

Removed agent template type — skills and agents are distinct; agent scaffolding belongs in .claude/agents/
Removed --memory and --model scaffold flags (agent-only fields)
Removed 5 agent-only validators — validation checks reduced from 25 to 20

Fixed compatibility validation inconsistency with whitespace trimming
Fixed metadata comma parsing — replaced comma-separated input with multi-entry loop

Field length corrections: compatibility max increased to 500 chars, argument-hint max increased to 200 chars
100 new end-to-end tests, type guard unit tests for all 15 exported functions

Interactive scaffold mode (asm scaffold --interactive) for guided skill creation
Agent template type for scaffold command (--template agent)
--minimal flag for shorter, production-ready scaffold templates
Frontmatter schema v2 with 11 new field validators
Nested skill directory discovery (asm list --recursive) for monorepos
Claude Code 2.1.x frontmatter field validation
Removed gitignore filtering from recursive discovery
Docs and plugin system awareness updates