SkillPulse v0.1.0-alpha.1

First public alpha release of SkillPulse — a lightweight reliability layer for agent skills.

Tagline: Detect, score, and heal broken agent skills.

Why SkillPulse

Agent skills often degrade silently when the environment around them changes.

That degradation can be triggered by:

• model changes
• tool or API signature changes
• prompt drift
• runtime and dependency updates
• repository evolution
• changing task distributions

SkillPulse exists to make that degradation visible earlier, easier to inspect, and easier to contain.

What’s included in this alpha

Core skill inspection

• skill.yaml manifest parsing
• machine-readable skill metadata support
• human-readable SKILL.md support alongside manifests

Health evaluation

• skill health scoring
• status classification
• basic doctor-style inspection output
• policy-aware gating support

CLI

Initial CLI commands for working with skills:

• check
• score
• doctor
• compare
• gate

Comparison and policy flows

• skill state comparison support
• gate-oriented evaluation for CI and controlled release workflows
• repo-level .skillpulse.yaml configuration support

Schemas and examples

• manifest and report schemas
• compare report schema
• gate report schema
• example skills for validation and experimentation

OSS readiness

• README and technical docs
• CHANGELOG
• CONTRIBUTING
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT
• SECURITY
• issue templates
• PR template
• minimal CI-oriented verification flow

Current positioning

SkillPulse is not a general-purpose agent framework.

It is a focused, portable reliability layer for agent skills:

• detect breakage
• score health
• compare changes
• gate risky skill states
• support safer evolution of modular agent capabilities

What is not included yet

This alpha does not yet aim to provide:

• full self-healing automation
• deep runtime adapters across major agent frameworks
• advanced regression orchestration
• rich dashboards or control-room UI
• broad workflow orchestration features

Those areas may be explored in future iterations, but this release keeps the scope intentionally narrow and practical.

Notes

• This is an alpha release.
• CLI behavior, report schemas, and scoring semantics may evolve.
• The current focus is clarity, usability, and a strong foundation for future iterations.

Feedback

Feedback, issues, and suggestions are welcome through GitHub Issues and Discussions as the project evolves.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/enkronos/skillpulse/commits/v0.1.0-alpha.1