Release v0.7.0

.agents/plugins/marketplace.json

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   "plugins": [
     {
       "name": "slow-powers",
-      "version": "0.6.2",
+      "version": "0.7.0",
       "source": {
         "source": "url",
         "url": "./"

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     {
       "name": "slow-powers",
       "description": "Agent skills to upgrade plan mode and debugging, enforce best practices, and enhance native features, not replace them.",
-      "version": "0.6.2",
+      "version": "0.7.0",
       "source": "./",
       "author": {
         "name": "Max Haarhaus",

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "slow-powers",
   "description": "Agent skills to upgrade plan mode and debugging, enforce best practices, and enhance native features, not replace them.",
-  "version": "0.6.2",
+  "version": "0.7.0",
   "author": {
     "name": "Max Haarhaus",
     "email": "samiamorwas@gmail.com"

.codex-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "slow-powers",
-  "version": "0.6.2",
+  "version": "0.7.0",
   "description": "Agent skills to upgrade plan mode and debugging, enforce best practices, and enhance native features, not replace them.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Max Haarhaus",

.github/badges/skills-ref.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "schemaVersion": 1,
   "label": "skills-ref",
-  "message": "8/8 valid",
+  "message": "9/9 valid",
   "color": "brightgreen"
 }

.github/workflows/release-pr.yml

@@ -57,9 +57,24 @@ jobs:
           PR_BODY_FILE=$(mktemp)
           cat > "$PR_BODY_FILE" <<'EOF'
           <!-- release-notes -->
+          <!-- release-notes:todo — remove this line once the notes below are final. While this marker is present, merging falls back to GitHub's auto-generated notes. -->
           ## Release notes
 
-          _Replace this paragraph with a short narrative for the release. If left unchanged, GitHub's auto-generated notes will be used instead._
+          ### Highlights
+
+          <!-- One narrative bullet per theme: what changed and why it matters to a user. Group related work; don't echo commit messages. -->
+
+          ### Behavior changes to know about
+
+          <!-- Observable deltas: changed defaults, renamed output, compatibility notes. Omit the section when empty. -->
+
+          ### Fixes
+
+          <!-- Bugs fixed: the observable symptom, then the cause. Omit the section when empty. -->
+
+          ### Internal changes
+
+          <!-- Refactors, test and infrastructure work. Omit the section when empty. -->
           EOF
 
           PR_URL=$(gh pr create \

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
             --json body \
             --jq '.[0].body // ""')
 
-          if [ -n "$PR_BODY" ] && ! echo "$PR_BODY" | grep -q "Replace this paragraph"; then
+          if [ -n "$PR_BODY" ] && ! echo "$PR_BODY" | grep -q "release-notes:todo"; then
             echo "Using release PR body for notes."
             printf '%s\n' "$PR_BODY" > /tmp/release-notes.md
           else

.github/workflows/skills-ref.yml

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_PR_TOKEN }}
 
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
@@ -44,4 +46,4 @@ jobs:
             exit 0
           fi
           git commit -m "chore(badge): update skills-ref validation badge [skip ci]"
-          git push
+          git push

.gitignore

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 !.claude/settings.json
 # Cline plugin install artifacts (e.g. from `cline plugin install ./ --cwd .`).
 .cline/plugins/
+# Cline Memory Bank contents are per-developer local state; the shared
+# Memory Bank rule lives in .clinerules/ and stays tracked.
+memory-bank/
 .DS_Store
 node_modules/
 .eval-magic

AGENTS.md

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ This repo ships Slow-powers across four harnesses:
 
 Cline-specific setup for working on this repo also lives at root:
 
-- `.clinerules/` — Cline rules (the Memory Bank custom instructions)
-- `memory-bank/` — Cline Memory Bank files recording ongoing work
+- `.clinerules/` — Cline rules (the Memory Bank custom instructions), tracked
+- `memory-bank/` — Cline Memory Bank contents. Gitignored: each developer
+  keeps their own local bank; only the rule in `.clinerules/` is shared
 
 ## Editing the right files
 

README.md

@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ Slow-powers is an agent skill set for professional software development. It enha
 
 <p align="center">
   <img src="assets/demo/tdd-demo.gif"
-    alt="The test-driven-development skill in a coding agent: write a failing test, watch it fail for the right reason, write minimal code — and the test catches a race before it ships."
+    alt="The working-with-tdd skill in a coding agent: write a failing test, watch it fail for the right reason, write minimal code — and the test catches a race before it ships."
     width="760" />
 </p>
 
 <p align="center">
-  <sub>The <code>test-driven-development</code> skill catching a race before it ships. Terminal themed with <a href="https://github.com/samiamorwas/synthpunk">Synthpunk Neon Dark</a>.</sub>
+  <sub>The <code>working-with-tdd</code> skill catching a race before it ships. Terminal themed with <a href="https://github.com/samiamorwas/synthpunk">Synthpunk Neon Dark</a>.</sub>
 </p>
 
 ## About this fork
@@ -117,10 +117,11 @@ Slow-powers provides a set of highly focused skills that ensure your agent opera
 1. **`hardening-plans`** — Instructs the agent to re-review any plans before it hands them back to you, looking for hallucinations, logical inconsistencies, and other common plan mistakes.
 2. **`investigating-bugs`** — Guides the agent to locate the root cause of failures via scientific hypothesis testing, avoiding "guess-and-check" thrashing.
 3. **`working-in-isolation`** — Establishes an isolated workspace (worktree or branch) so new work doesn't collide with existing or in-progress work, keeping protected branches like `main` clean.
-4. **`test-driven-development`** — Enforces a strict RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle, ensuring all code is backed by failing test verification first.
+4. **`working-with-tdd`** — Enforces a strict RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle, ensuring all code is backed by failing test verification first.
 5. **`verifying-development-work`** — Requires running actual test/build commands and presenting concrete evidence before any success claim, with a final review pass over the change, code AND comments, before work is handed back.
 6. **`writing-skills`** — Helps write and edit skills, following the same best practices that guide slow-powers itself.
 7. **`evaluating-skills`** — Teaches the agent how to run skill evals, so the value of skills and prose changes can be objectively assessed.
+8. **`writing-technical-docs`** — Guides the agent's technical writing — code comments, PR descriptions, READMEs, design docs — with a scale-sized writing process and evergreen-content rules that keep docs free of session narration.
 
 ## Why trust these skills?
 
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ Most skill packs ship on vibes. Every slow-powers skill ships with a documented
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | `hardening-plans` | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
 | `investigating-bugs` | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
-| `test-driven-development` | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
+| `working-with-tdd` | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
 | `verifying-development-work` | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
 
 **Improvement vs no skill** is the gain in eval pass-rate (percentage points) when the same [eval-magic](https://github.com/slowdini/eval-magic) suite runs with the skill versus without it.
@@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ Most skill packs ship on vibes. Every slow-powers skill ships with a documented
 
 The skills declare prerequisite / next-step gates so the agent follows an intended skill sequence. These gates **suggest** what comes before and after a skill once it is invoked; they do **not** restrict when any skill can be invoked.
 
-**Plan mode:** plan mode → `hardening-plans` → `working-in-isolation` → `test-driven-development` → `verifying-development-work`
+**Plan mode:** plan mode → `hardening-plans` → `working-in-isolation` → `working-with-tdd` → `verifying-development-work`
 
 **Debugging:** (`working-in-isolation`) → `investigating-bugs` → `verifying-development-work`
 

assets/demo/tdd-playback.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Re-enactment of a REAL Claude Code test-driven-development session (RED -> GREEN).
+# Re-enactment of a REAL Claude Code TDD session (RED -> GREEN).
 #
 # Deterministic: pacing lives here (the "actor"), VHS is the "camera".
 # Colors use base-16 ANSI (30-37 / 90-97 + bold) so the terminal theme drives them
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pause 0.4
 human "for your own account, read the api key from the session instead of refetching it"
 pause 0.9
 
-bullet "Using ${B}${CYAN}test-driven-development${RST}."
+bullet "Using ${B}${CYAN}working-with-tdd${RST}."
 pause 0.8
 
 # ---------- RED ----------