skill-lifecycle

Report on skill age, last modified, git activity, and deprecation status across all clusters. Trigger: /skill-lifecycle

SKILL.md

GitHub

/skill-lifecycle

Tracks the health and freshness of every skill in the project.

PROTECTION RULE - never ~/.claude/

Read-only skill. Guard required if write mode added later.

What this is for

  • Skills with no git activity in months (stale)
  • Skills that have never been smoke-tested
  • Skills that reference deprecated patterns
  • Read-only skill. No code changes.

What You Must Do When Invoked

Step 1

-ProjectDir target

Step 2

Run collector: git log per skill directory + file stats

Step 3

Report stalest skills by cluster

Step 4

Write skill-lifecycle-report.md

Usage

/skill-lifecycle           # interactive
/skill-lifecycle <dir>     # scan project
/skill-lifecycle -help

During analysis, assign a confidence level to each finding: proven (confirmed by evidence), likely (strong signal, needs review), or suspected (weak signal).