v5.4.2

Changes

Added

• Added a Simplicity (over-engineering) review dimension and a Simplify-focus delete-list mode (delete/stdlib/native/yagni/shrink, net-lines metric) to the reviewing-code skill.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, docs lookup, instruction review, reasoning, and agent configuration audits
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Lightweight spec loop: plan one slice, execute one task, checkpoint or close

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.4.1

Changes

Added

• Added turnkey Playwright screenshot helpers for single URLs and URL-template sequences, including JSON manifests with titles, screenshot paths, console errors, network failures, and bad HTTP responses.
• Added regression tests for the Playwright runner and screenshot helpers.

Fixed

• Hardened the Playwright support runtime so scripts can import Node modules or Playwright explicitly while still receiving injected browser globals.
• Kept runner status logs off stdout for reliable JSON output, preserved caller working directories, and stopped writing execution temp files into the skill directory.
• Improved browser automation guidance for Pi and headless harnesses to prefer screenshot and manifest evidence when no visible browser is exposed.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, docs lookup, instruction review, reasoning, and agent configuration audits
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Lightweight spec loop: plan one slice, execute one task, checkpoint or close

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.4.0

Changes

Changed

• Collapsed the spec-driven workflow from seven public spec skills into one lightweight spec-flow skill that plans one slice, executes one task, checkpoints or closes, and repeats.
• Replaced the multi-skill specctl helper with a smaller state-only CLI for .spec/ artifacts, readiness, sessions, checkpoints, validation, dependencies, and completion evidence.
• Updated spec-flow documentation, method guidance, README catalog counts, and generated Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Pi artifacts for the 25-skill catalog.

Removed

• Removed the separate spec-init, spec-interview, spec-plan, spec-new, spec-status, spec-work, and spec-done skills from the installable spec-flow plugin.

Fixed

• Updated spec-related skill-enforcer routing and tests to match the single spec-flow skill while keeping neighboring skills independent.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, docs lookup, instruction review, reasoning, and agent configuration audits
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Lightweight spec loop: plan one slice, execute one task, checkpoint or close

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.3.0

Changes

Changed

• Reworked documenting-code around reader-aware documentation updates: human docs, agent-facing docs, code comments, and language-specific documentation guidance now stay grounded in code facts, use smaller doc deltas, and apply tighter Claude tool and workflow limits.
• Reworked brainstorming-ideas to prefer interactive question tools over plain-text numbered menus, tightened the grill protocol, reduced the Claude overlay to platform-specific deltas, and added paused/routed output handling.
• Reworked deploying-infra into a validate-first deployment workflow with explicit apply confirmation for every environment, validate-only handling for Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions, repo-detected deploy commands, stronger blocked/failure outputs, and more realistic validation checklists.
• Reworked fixing-code so the Claude overlay and tool envelope now support read/edit/write/questioning flows, scoped one-defect fixes, blocked/proposed-change handling, and tighter route-away rules for browser-only debugging.
• Reworked improving-tests so the Claude overlay can actually apply test changes, emits blocked/proposed-change outputs, follows convention-first language references, and uses leaner Go, Python, TypeScript, and Web test guidance without absolute rules.
• Reworked researching-web around a single canonical Research Result output contract, task-driven web-tool selection, stronger source-grounding, explicit source-conflict handling, and stale-source-risk reporting.
• Updated README and AGENTS catalog copy to match the 31-skill suite and the revised deployment and research skill scopes.

Removed

• Removed the low-use exploring-repos skill and DeepWiki routing. Public repo architecture questions now fall back to normal web research, docs lookup, GitHub CLI, or local exploration instead of a dedicated skill.

Fixed

• Fixed the README skill-count badge so it matches the current 31-skill catalog.
• Fixed instruction/tool drift across the updated skills by regenerating all target-specific dist/ artifacts from src/.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, docs lookup, instruction review, reasoning, and agent configuration audits
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.2.0

Changes

Changed

• Reworked evolving-config into a review-first AI coding-agent configuration audit workflow: fixes now require an explicit request, --fix, or named approval before changing permissions, sandbox policy, hooks, MCP servers, model routing, package installs, private config, or managed settings.
• Added platform-specific guidance for Claude Code, Codex, and Pi configuration surfaces, including settings, context files, skills, agents, hooks, MCP, sandbox and approval policy, packages, extensions, prompts, and generated-export rules.
• Tightened the evolving-config rubric around evidence, least privilege, generated-file source of truth, routing precision, context efficiency, and validation readiness.
• Updated the Claude overlay to use local config evidence first, official docs and changelogs second, and broad web research only for gaps or ecosystem comparisons.
• Updated the discovery plugin and catalog descriptions to describe research, docs lookup, repo exploration, instruction review, and agent configuration audits.

Fixed

• Removed Gemini from evolving-config best-practice scope; explicit Gemini requests now get local-file review only with the coverage gap stated.
• Removed stale audit/apply mode conflicts so review-only prompts no longer drift into fix prompts.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, docs lookup, repo exploration, instruction review, and agent configuration audits
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.1.0

Changes

Changed

• Tightened refactoring-code into a focused batch-refactor workflow with
  explicit route-away rules, behavior-preservation gates, mapped-site evidence,
  public API compatibility guidance, and optional GitNexus/codegraph impact
  checks for renames, moves, extracts, and broad restructures.
• Reworked fixing-code around a reproducible feedback loop: reproduce first,
  diagnose with evidence, patch the smallest root cause, add regression coverage
  where a real seam exists, and clean up temporary instrumentation before
  reporting success.
• Reworked improving-tests around behavior seams, characterization tests,
  TDD slices, coverage-as-signal guidance, flaky/slow/dead-test review checks,
  and optional GitNexus/codegraph evidence for affected flows and high fan-in
  regression surfaces.
• Upgraded reviewing-code with quick, standard, deep, team, and external modes;
  a dedicated severity/confidence rubric; explicit score caps; Needs review
  handling for missing context; consolidated subagent/external-review rules; and
  focused GitNexus/codegraph guidance for PR blast radius and missed caller or
  test coverage checks.
• Rebuilt reviewing-instructions around a canonical 0-10 band-first scoring
  rubric with hard gates, caps, confidence, calibration anchors, model alias
  resolution, and scoped lint pre-pass support for more stable repeated scores.
• Simplified review language references for Go, Python, TypeScript, and Web so
  they are read-only compatible, tool-aware without being tool-first, and focused
  on concrete defect classes instead of tutorial-style examples.

Fixed

• lint-instructions.py now honors explicit file, directory, and plugin scopes
  instead of reporting unrelated whole-repo findings during targeted instruction
  reviews.
• The instruction-scoring rubric and model references now pass their own format
  lint rules, avoiding self-reported horizontal-rule, italic, and bold-overuse
  findings.
• README and AGENTS skill catalogs now describe the updated review, debugging,
  testing, refactoring, and instruction-scoring workflows.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, reasoning, config evolution, and agent self-improvement
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v5.0.0

Changes

Changed

• Reorganized the installable plugin catalog from eleven source plugins to
  seven coherent plugins: browser, dev-flow, discovery, git-flow,
  infra-ops, programming, and spec-flow.
• Renamed browser-automation → browser, dev-tools → discovery, and
  spec-dev → spec-flow, and consolidated go-dev, py-dev, ts-dev,
  and web-dev into programming.
• Added declarative plugin dependencies in source manifests:
  browser → programming, programming → dev-flow, and
  spec-flow → dev-flow.
• Merged reviewing-cc-config into evolving-config, keeping config review
  and config-improvement workflows in one skill with review-only and
  apply-fixes modes.
• Clarified cc-thingz as “Coding Companion” in the top-level docs and reduced
  Claude-first framing in the README and AGENTS catalog.
• Kept revdiff-plan-review as an optional Pi bridge hook and assigned it to
  spec-flow instead of leaving it orphaned.

Removed

• Removed the empty test-e2e plugin.
• Removed thin or redundant skills: analyzing-usage, learning-patterns,
  mem-history, parsing-documents, and smart-explore.
• Removed dead skill-enforcer routes for deleted or phantom skills:
  learning-patterns, mem-history, reviewing-cc-config,
  smart-explore, using-gemini, and coding.

Fixed

• Updated README, AGENTS, contributing docs, release-mirror rewrite rules,
  generated manifests, and hook/test fixtures to match the new plugin layout,
  names, counts, and configuration surface.
• Regenerated all marketplace manifests, plugin outputs, and target-specific
  artifacts for the 5.0.0 layout.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser	Browser-based testing, validation, screenshots, recordings, and quick automation
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
discovery	Research, reasoning, config evolution, and agent self-improvement
git-flow	Git worktrees, branch cleanup, hooks, secret scanning, config hygiene, and guardrails
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and Linux infrastructure operations
programming	Idiomatic development across Go, Python, TypeScript, shell, and web
spec-flow	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v4.12.0

Changes

Changed

• Renamed the user-facing browser workflow from testing-e2e to
  browser-automation, broadened it to rendered UI exploration, validation,
  screenshots, recordings, and browser-flow tests, and made playwright-skill
  support-only.
• Slimmed playwright-skill from a Playwright tutorial into a runtime-only
  helper reference, fixed dev-server detection, and aligned temporary scripts
  and artifacts under /tmp/playwright-*.
• Folded debating-ideas into brainstorming-ideas and retained the
  challenge protocol as a conditional reference.
• Consolidated Context7 command guidance into looking-up-docs, keeping docs
  lookup in one user-facing skill with official-source and web fallback
  references.
• Tightened runtime-neutral instruction wording across several support skills
  and generated targets.
• Plugin and marketplace versions bumped to 4.12.0.

Removed

• Removed standalone testing-e2e, debating-ideas, and context7-cli skill
  entries after their behavior moved into the replacement skills above.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
browser-automation	Browser automation for rendered UI exploration, validation, screenshots, and end-to-end flows
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
dev-tools	Modern CLI tools, git worktrees, docs lookup, research, and brainstorming
go-dev	Idiomatic Go development with stdlib-first patterns
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, and GCP operations
py-dev	Python 3.12+ with uv/ruff/pyright toolchain and modern patterns
spec-dev	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning
ts-dev	TypeScript with strict typing, React patterns, and modern tooling
web-dev	Web frontend with vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTMX

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v4.11.0

Changes

Fixed

• Pi ask_user_question now keeps choices visible for long prompts by wrapping
  and capping question text before rendering options.
• The fix covers both single-select selector prompts and multi-select editor
  prompts, with regression tests for each path.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
dev-tools	Modern CLI tools, git worktrees, docs lookup, research, and brainstorming
go-dev	Idiomatic Go development with stdlib-first patterns
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, and GCP operations
py-dev	Python 3.12+ with uv/ruff/pyright toolchain and modern patterns
spec-dev	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning
test-e2e	End-to-end testing with Playwright for browser automation and UI testing
ts-dev	TypeScript with strict typing, React patterns, and modern tooling
web-dev	Web frontend with vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTMX

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz

v4.10.1

Changes

Changed

• Tightened writing-go instructions and Go references for leaner scope,
  version-gated APIs, dependency-aware concurrency guidance, and lowercase
  reference filenames.

Plugins

Plugin	Description
dev-flow	Code review, fixes, commits, and linting for development workflows
dev-tools	Modern CLI tools, git worktrees, docs lookup, research, and brainstorming
go-dev	Idiomatic Go development with stdlib-first patterns
infra-ops	Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, AWS, and GCP operations
py-dev	Python 3.12+ with uv/ruff/pyright toolchain and modern patterns
spec-dev	Spec-driven development with structured requirements and planning
test-e2e	End-to-end testing with Playwright for browser automation and UI testing
ts-dev	TypeScript with strict typing, React patterns, and modern tooling
web-dev	Web frontend with vanilla HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HTMX

Installation

/plugin marketplace add alexei-led/cc-thingz