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PM-Skills v2.6.0 Release Notes

Date: 2026-03-04
Status: Release-ready (tag/publish pending explicit approval)

Summary

v2.6.0 is a plugin-packaging minor release for pm-skills.

This lane adds a Claude plugin manifest to shipped artifacts and hardens release validation so plugin metadata stays aligned with release tags.

Scope

In scope: 1. Claude plugin packaging (.claude-plugin/plugin.json) in release artifacts 2. Plugin validation and release guardrails in CI 3. Documentation updates for plugin install and release metadata

Out of scope: 1. New PM skills, command behavior, or workflow behavior changes 2. pm-skills-mcp deployment changes

Added

  1. Claude plugin manifest: .claude-plugin/plugin.json
  2. Plugin validation workflow: .github/workflows/validate-plugin.yml

Changed

  1. scripts/build-release.sh now stages .claude-plugin/ and enforces staged plugin-manifest version parity with release version.
  2. scripts/build-release.ps1 now stages .claude-plugin/ and enforces staged plugin-manifest version parity with release version.
  3. .github/workflows/release.yml release-note template now includes plugin-manifest install guidance.
  4. README.md includes:
  5. Install as Claude Code Plugin section
  6. explicit setup notes for GitHub Copilot and OpenCode
  7. rolled-forward latest-release metadata references
  8. SECURITY.md updated to production-ready reporting guidance (private advisory path + issue fallback).

Validation

  1. pwsh -File scripts/validate-commands.ps1
  2. pwsh -File scripts/lint-skills-frontmatter.ps1
  3. VALIDATE_MCP_SYNC_MODE=observe PM_SKILLS_MCP_PATH=../pm-skills-mcp node .github/scripts/validate-mcp-sync.js
  4. Expected for this lane: skill inventory stays aligned; pin/version drift remains until a future pm-skills-mcp release.
  5. pwsh -File scripts/build-release.ps1 -Version 2.6.0
  6. Verify ZIP contains .claude-plugin/plugin.json and manifest version is 2.6.0

Canonical References

  1. CHANGELOG.md
  2. README.md
  3. SECURITY.md
  4. .github/workflows/release.yml
  5. .github/workflows/validate-plugin.yml
  6. scripts/build-release.sh
  7. scripts/build-release.ps1