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software-lifecycle
How to work in a Software Lifecycle project (the `software-lifecycle` starter pack): proposals → decisions → specs → postmortems, plus guides. Read when the project has these folders, or when asked how this project is organized. Carries the doc lifecycle, status flows, and per-folder agent behaviors so that guidance does not live inside template bodies or folder descriptions. The five workflows — frame a proposal, write a spec, record a decision, write a postmortem, review a design — each ship as their own sibling skill in this pack. Complements the platform `open-knowledge` skill; does not re
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 4,634 stars are split between them (about 463 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 75/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
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Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit f0bb0bceb14b, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onesoftware-lifecycle inkeep/open-knowledge · Skill | 75 | ★ 4.6k | ≈155 always | 16d ago |
| decision-lifecycle arbiterForge/codeArbiter · Skill Both about lifecycle and decision | 55 | ★ 149 | ≈31 always | 16d ago |
| memory-lifecycle basicmachines-co/basic-memory · Skill Both about lifecycle and folder | 75 | ★ 4.3k | ≈50 always | 16d ago |
| docs-lifecycle-scan amplifthq/openmeld · Skill Both about lifecycle and doc | 69 | ★ 1.4k | ≈46 always | 16d ago |
| dev-lifecycle codeaholicguy/ai-devkit · Skill Both about lifecycle | 72 | ★ 1.6k | ≈56 always | 17d ago |
| software-copyright-materials Fokkyp/SoftwareCopyright-Skill · Skill Both about software | 89 | ★ 6.0k | ≈29 always | 19d ago |