Manage skills through lifecycle states — draft, beta, stable, deprecated, archived — applying promotion criteria, deprecation rules, and transition tracking. Use this when auditing skill maturity across a library, promoting a tested skill to stable, retiring a superseded skill, or tracking which skills are production-ready. Do not use for authoring new skills (use skill-authoring), improving individual skill quality (use skill-refinement), or curating the library catalog as a whole (use skill-catalog-curation).
Manages skills through their full lifecycle: draft → beta → stable → deprecated → archived. Ensures library stays coherent, retired skills don't break workflows, and maturity states reflect reality.
Use when:
Do NOT use when:
skill-deprecation-manager)skill-authoring)draft: Being written, not validated—don't use in productionbeta: Validated for basics, accepting feedback—use with monitoringstable: Validated, promoted, default choicedeprecated: Replaced/not recommended—functional but don't use for new workarchived: Removed from active, reference only—don't installmetadata.maturity## Lifecycle Audit
### State Summary
| State | Count | Skills |
|-------|-------|--------|
| draft | 5 | skill-a, skill-b, ... |
| stable | 20 | ... |
### Recommended Transitions
| Skill | Current | Recommended | Reason |
|-------|---------|-------------|--------|
| skill-x | draft | beta | 5 tests passed |
| skill-y | stable | deprecated | Superseded |
### Dependency Impact
| Deprecated | Referenced By | Action |
|------------|---------------|--------|
| skill-y | AGENTS.md L45 | Update reference |
### Actions
1. Promote skill-x to beta
2. Deprecate skill-y, update AGENTS.md
maturity field to all skills based on evidence before proceeding