[8.1.0] - 2026-03-17 - "PR Maintenance and Release Sync"
Merged the active PR queue, added three new community skills, repaired metadata drift, and refreshed release-facing docs for the next tagged cut
This release completes the post-merge maintainer pass for the six open pull requests that landed after 8.0.0. It adds new skills for progressive web apps, tRPC full-stack development, and external AI code review; repairs malformed YAML frontmatter in legacy skills; fixes a broken data-scientist reference; and refreshes README, contributor acknowledgements, and linked onboarding docs before the v8.1.0 tag.
New Skills
- progressive-web-app — practical PWA implementation guidance for manifests, service workers, caching, offline support, and installability (PR #324)
- vibers-code-review — GitHub-based external human review workflow for AI-generated projects, including setup steps and integration guidance (PR #325)
- trpc-fullstack — end-to-end type-safe API development patterns with tRPC across server, client, auth, and Next.js integration (PR #329)
Improvements
- PR maintenance batch: Merged PRs #331, #330, #326, #324, #325, and #329 via GitHub squash merge after maintainer preflight, workflow approval for forked PRs, and green CI.
- Docs alignment: Updated
docs/users/getting-started.md, README release messaging, and release-facing notes so the public docs reflect the current post-merge state. - Issue and reference hygiene: Removed the dead
resources/implementation-playbook.mdreference fromskills/data-scientist/SKILL.md(PR #331, closes #327) and closed the duplicate truncation report in issue#328against the documented fix path in issue#269. - FAQ polish: Aligned FAQ risk-label documentation and added
skill-reviewtroubleshooting guidance for contributors (PR #330). - Legacy metadata repair: Normalized malformed YAML frontmatter across
astropy,biopython,cirq,citation-management,fixing-metadata,gmail-automation,google-calendar-automation,google-docs-automation,google-drive-automation,google-sheets-automation,google-slides-automation,networkx,qiskit,seaborn,sympy, andvarlock(PR #326). - Contributor flow hardening: Repaired
skills/vibers-code-review/SKILL.mdon the contributor branch so the skill met repository validation rules before merge, then reran CI and merged normally (PR #325 maintainer refresh). - Registry and release sync: Refreshed generated registry artifacts, README counts, package metadata, contributor acknowledgements, and release automation inputs on
mainbefore taggingv8.1.0.
Credits
- @suhaibjanjua for the
data-scientistbroken-reference fix in PR #331, the FAQ and getting-started docs alignment in PR #330, and the newtrpc-fullstackskill in PR #329 - @BenZinaDaze for the YAML frontmatter repair sweep in PR #326
- @JaskiratAnand for the new
progressive-web-appskill in PR #324 - @marsiandeployer for the initial
vibers-code-reviewcontribution in PR #325
Documentation
- Documented the new
skill-reviewGitHub Actions workflow across contributor, maintainer, and README guidance so PR expectations stay aligned with the active CI surface forSKILL.mdchanges.