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 **Antigravity Awesome Skills** is a curated, battle-tested library of **1,262+ high-performance agentic skills** designed to work seamlessly across the major AI coding assistants.
 
-**Current release: V7.9.1.** This repository gives your agent reusable playbooks for planning, coding, debugging, testing, security review, infrastructure work, product thinking, and much more.
+**Current release: V8.0.0.** This repository gives your agent reusable playbooks for planning, coding, debugging, testing, security review, infrastructure work, product thinking, and much more.
 
 ## Table of Contents
 
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 ### 1. 🐣 Context: What is this?
 
-**Antigravity Awesome Skills** (Release 7.9.1) is a broad, production-oriented upgrade to your AI's capabilities.
+**Antigravity Awesome Skills** (Release 8.0.0) is a broad, production-oriented upgrade to your AI's capabilities.
 
 AI Agents (like Claude Code, Cursor, or Gemini) are smart, but they lack **specific tools**. They don't know your company's "Deployment Protocol" or the specific syntax for "AWS CloudFormation".
 **Skills** are small markdown files that teach them how to do these specific tasks perfectly, every time.