antigravity-skills-reference/docs/users/walkthrough.md

Walkthrough: Release v8.1.0 Maintenance Sweep

Overview

This walkthrough captures the maintainer-side documentation and release preparation work for v8.1.0 after the 2026-03-17 PR merge batch.

Changes Verified

1. Community PR batch integrated

• PR #324: Added progressive-web-app
• PR #325: Added vibers-code-review
• PR #326: Repaired invalid YAML frontmatter in existing skills
• PR #329: Added trpc-fullstack
• PR #330: Aligned FAQ risk labels and documented the active skill-review check
• PR #331: Removed a broken reference from skills/data-scientist/SKILL.md

2. Release-facing docs refreshed

• README.md:
  • Current release updated to v8.1.0
  • Release summary text aligned with the merged PR batch
  • Contributor acknowledgements kept in sync with the latest merge set
• docs/users/getting-started.md:
  • Version header updated to v8.1.0
• docs/users/faq.md:
  • Active skill-review workflow guidance retained as the current contributor check
• CHANGELOG.md:
  • Added the release notes section for 8.1.0

3. Release protocol to run

• npm run release:preflight
• npm run security:docs
• npm run validate:strict (diagnostic, optional blocker)
• npm run release:prepare -- 8.1.0
• npm run release:publish -- 8.1.0

Expected Outcome

• Documentation, changelog, and generated metadata all agree on the release state.
• The repository is ready for the v8.1.0 tag and GitHub release.