maintenance-evolution-skills

A platform-neutral maintenance and evolution skill pack for triage, regression risk, deprecation, migration readiness, hotfix decisions, and operational learning.

Included skills

• bug-reproduction-writer
• change-impact-mapper
• corrective-adaptive-perfective-preventive-classifier
• deprecation-planner
• hotfix-vs-patch-vs-version-update-selector
• maintenance-knowledge-capture-writer
• maintenance-triage-helper
• migration-readiness-checker
• regression-risk-reviewer
• rollback-plan-writer
• root-cause-hypothesis-generator

Features

• Preserves the original skills/, templates/, and examples/ source material
• Mirrors packaged skills into both .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/
• Packages the source skills into a reusable public repo format

Install

Option A: Install globally

git clone https://github.com/45ck/maintenance-evolution-skills.git
cd maintenance-evolution-skills
bash install.sh

This installs every packaged skill into both:

• ~/.claude/skills/
• ~/.agents/skills/

Option B: Copy into a project

cp -R .claude /path/to/your-project/
cp -R .agents /path/to/your-project/

Uninstall

bash uninstall.sh

Usage

/maintenance-triage-helper incoming defect queue
/change-impact-mapper service update
/migration-readiness-checker legacy module
/regression-risk-reviewer hotfix candidate
/deprecation-planner old API endpoint
/root-cause-hypothesis-generator production incident

Repo structure

skills/                              original source skills
templates/                           reusable templates
examples/                            sample flow material
.claude/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md      packaged skill format
.agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md      mirrored packaged skill format
install.sh                           global installer
uninstall.sh                         global uninstaller
LICENSE                              MIT

Related workflow agents

• delivery-manager - Own maintenance flow, rollout timing, and triage coordination
• delivery-manager-beads - Track maintenance and rollback follow-up items
• quality-reviewer - Review regression and maintainability implications

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License

MIT