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Agent Skills 0.6.0

This is an orchestration release. Personas, skills, and slash commands now compose as three explicit layers, and /ship runs three specialist personas in parallel against the current change before synthesizing a go/no-go decision. New tool integrations land for Gemini CLI, Kiro, and OpenCode, and source-driven-development gains an opt-in citation cache.

Orchestration

Three composable layers, defined in AGENTS.md and worked through in references/orchestration-patterns.md:

  • Personas - roles with a perspective and an output format (the who)
  • Skills - workflows with steps and exit criteria (the how)
  • Slash commands - user-facing entry points (the when)

Composition rule: the user (or a slash command) is the orchestrator. Personas do not invoke other personas.

  • Turned /ship into a parallel fan-out orchestrator that runs code-reviewer, security-auditor, and test-engineer concurrently and merges their reports
  • Replaced /ship's hand-wavy skip-fan-out rule with concrete thresholds (≤2 files, <50 lines, no auth/payments/data/config)
  • Added a Composition block to each persona file documenting how it composes with skills
  • Added a personas index (agents/README.md) with a composition decision matrix
  • Added an orchestration patterns catalog (references/orchestration-patterns.md)
  • Added an Agent Teams worked example for competing-hypothesis debugging
  • Documented Claude Code subagent and Agent Teams compatibility, including how skills, mcpServers, and permissionMode frontmatter are handled (silently dropped when used as teammates)
  • Corrected Agent Teams system-prompt handling — appended, not replaced
  • Noted /ship picks up user-defined personas in .claude/agents/ and ~/.claude/agents/ automatically (plugin scope is lowest priority)

New Tool Integrations

Gemini CLI

  • Added 7 slash commands under .gemini/commands/ (/spec, /planning, /build, /test, /review, /code-simplify, /ship) mirroring the Claude Code set
  • Used /planning instead of /plan to avoid colliding with a Gemini CLI internal command
  • Documented the commands in docs/gemini-cli-setup.md

Kiro IDE & CLI

  • Added Kiro to the README quick start with setup details and link formatting

OpenCode

  • Added a symlink so OpenCode resolves skills correctly out of the box

Hooks

Source-Driven Development citation cache

  • Opt-in citation cache so framework-doc lookups don't repeat across sessions

Session-start JSON robustness

  • Properly JSON-escape SKILL.md content via jq — fixes invalid JSON when content contains quotes or newlines
  • Gracefully fall back with an INFO-priority message when jq is missing on PATH instead of failing silently

Skill Improvements

Frontend UI Engineering

  • Fixed button accessibility guidance ([#58](#58))
  • Aligned the custom button example with native Space activation timing ([#79](#79))
  • Prevented the custom button example from teaching a scrolling interaction bug

Accessibility Checklist

  • Skip-to-content link must be visible on focus ([#54](#54))
  • Added autocomplete requirement for known fields in forms ([#55](#55))

Performance Checklist

  • Expanded INP coverage with concrete optimization techniques ([#84](#84))
  • Added a fonts section and the yieldToMain pattern ([#63](#63))

Skill Contribution Guidance

  • Aligned skill-contribution guidance across CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, docs/skill-anatomy.md, and the README — preserved third-person description guidance and corrected README formatting

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who landed changes in this release:

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