[16.4.0] - 2026-08-30 - "Sharper Reasoning and Safer Service Draining"
Refined falsification routing and graceful-shutdown guidance, retired a
discontinued UIZZE skill, and hardened canonical reference validation. The
published catalog contains 2,097 skills.
This release helps Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and
related AI coding assistants choose the right reasoning depth, drain production
services without fighting their process manager, and avoid stale catalog
references after a canonical skill is removed.
Start here:
- Install:
npx agentic-awesome-skills falsifyfor explicit mode selection, calibrated
falsification, and lightweight estimate routing.graceful-shutdownfor bounded draining,
readiness transitions, and shutdown deadlines.- Choose your tool
- Bundles
- Workflows
Changed
- Updated
falsifywith a mandatory mode-selection gate so
incidents, simple requests, rough estimates, questions, and deep analysis do
not all enter the same heavyweight reasoning protocol
(#1287). - Refined
graceful-shutdownso liveness probes
remain available during draining, aborted HTTP requests release their active
counters, and FastAPI shutdown guidance preserves Uvicorn's signal ownership
(#1289).
Removed
- Removed the retired
ui-slop-scoreskill after the canonical UIZZE project
stopped publishing it; the maintainedanti-ui-slop,ui-design, and
ui-radarskills remain available
(#1288).
Fixed
- Reordered protected-main validation so canonical repository state is
regenerated before cross-reference validation. Source-only skill deletions
can now remove stale bundle and web references before the reference gate runs
(#1291). - Regenerated the canonical catalog, offline AAS Core data, tracked web assets,
marketplaces, editorial bundles, compatibility reports, and Codex/Claude
plugin distributions for 2,097 skills
(#1292).
Security and Reliability
- Kept the updated skills documentation-only: they do not bundle or execute a
server runtime, install dependencies, or take ownership of production
signals. - Preserved explicit shutdown deadlines and forced-exit fallbacks so draining
cannot wait forever, while keeping readiness and liveness semantics separate. - Bound canonical-reference checks to freshly regenerated trusted state and
locked the workflow ordering with regression tests.
Who should care
- Engineers using agent reasoning protocols who need fast incident handling and
direct, useful rough estimates without unnecessary ceremony. - Platform teams operating Node.js, FastAPI, Kubernetes, workers, and long-lived
connections that need predictable termination behavior. - Maintainers removing retired skills from a source-only catalog without
leaving stale generated references behind.
Validation
- Passed repository and reference validation, documentation-security checks,
warning-budget enforcement, the complete 113-group repository test suite,
176 web-app tests, the production web build, npm audits, plugin compatibility,
bundle and marketplace checks, and protected canonical synchronization. - Verified final source and canonical CI plus CodeQL on the exact protected
maincommit, with zero open pull requests, issues, security alerts, or
generated-state drift before release preparation.
Limitations
falsifystructures routing and evidence checks but cannot guarantee truth or
replace domain expertise and higher-quality evidence.- Graceful shutdown remains runtime- and infrastructure-dependent; align probe,
load-balancer, process-manager, and orchestrator deadlines in the deployed
environment. - Removing
ui-slop-scoredoes not remove the maintained UIZZE design-analysis
skills or affect projects that independently pinned the retired upstream
package.
Credits
- @263311487-ux for the
falsify
routing update in
#1287. - @Prajeeth-12 for the revised
graceful-shutdownguidance in
#1289. - @samuelbushi for identifying the
retired UIZZE skill in
#1288.