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What's New in v5.0

Redesigned around a single insight from Vercel's skill-creator: the context window is a public good. Every line in SKILL.md competes with the user's actual work.

Breaking Changes

  • Frontmatter simplified to name + description only. Fields like license, metadata, disable-model-invocation are no longer expected by validators.
  • README.md excluded from installation — exists in the repo for GitHub browsing but is not part of the skill. Use .skillignore to control what gets packaged.

Highlights

  • SKILL.md slimmed from 872 to 313 lines (64% reduction). Deep dives moved to references/ where they belong.
  • Triggers moved into description — the description field is the primary routing mechanism; the body only loads after triggering.
  • New: .skillignore — controls which files are excluded from .skill packages (like .gitignore for skill distribution). package_skill.py now respects these patterns.
  • New: Degrees of Freedom concept (references/degrees-of-freedom.md) — match instruction specificity to task fragility (high/medium/low freedom).
  • New: Iteration guide (references/iteration-guide.md) — iteration is now a formal step in the skill creation process.
  • New: init_skill.py scaffold script — creates rich skill templates with TODO placeholders, organizational pattern suggestions, and example resource files.
  • Updated validators — validate-skill.py and quick_validate.py aligned to new frontmatter standard.

Full Changelog

https://github.com/tripleyak/SkillForge/compare/v4.0.0...v5.0.0

Source: README.md, updated 2026-02-25