The July 2026 sweep spot-checked every tracked tool's version but deliberately bumped only Spec Kitty. Three core tools drifted by more than a version string and need their own pass.
Kiro — v0.12.263 → 1.0.138
The tracked version predates a real 1.0 milestone plus a feature shift: OpenAI model support and CLI 3.0 early access. This is a maturity and capability change, not a number.
Trap worth recording: the kirodotdev/Kiro GitHub repo is not authoritative for Kiro's version. It carries zero tags and 404s on releases/latest because it is a docs and community mirror, not the shipped IDE. Version comes from https://kiro.dev/changelog. Anything scripted against the GitHub API will silently report no releases.
Spec-Kit — v0.8.18 → v0.14.1
Six minor versions behind on 0.x semver, which is major-equivalent. v0.14.1 published 2026-07-23. Worth reading the intervening release notes for feature and workflow changes before deciding whether phases/scenarios still describe it.
Superpowers — v5.1.0 → v6.1.1
Major bump 5.x → 6.x (v6.1.1 released 2026-07-02). A major version on a methodology framework likely moves the workflow the core entry documents.
Method note
Versions were resolved with a double-source rule: pull both releases/latest and /tags, take the newer. The two endpoints disagreed during this sweep (Frame's v2.4.0 appears only in tags), so a single-endpoint check is not reliable.
Also confirmed as correctly unversioned, not stale: Conductor, Tessl, Traycer, and Zencoder ship no public repo; snwfdhmp/awesome-ralph is a curated list rather than the Ralph technique itself.
Detail: docs/reassessment-2026-07-23.md (Part A).
The July 2026 sweep spot-checked every tracked tool's version but deliberately bumped only Spec Kitty. Three core tools drifted by more than a version string and need their own pass.
Kiro — v0.12.263 → 1.0.138
The tracked version predates a real 1.0 milestone plus a feature shift: OpenAI model support and CLI 3.0 early access. This is a maturity and capability change, not a number.
Trap worth recording: the
kirodotdev/KiroGitHub repo is not authoritative for Kiro's version. It carries zero tags and 404s onreleases/latestbecause it is a docs and community mirror, not the shipped IDE. Version comes from https://kiro.dev/changelog. Anything scripted against the GitHub API will silently report no releases.Spec-Kit — v0.8.18 → v0.14.1
Six minor versions behind on 0.x semver, which is major-equivalent. v0.14.1 published 2026-07-23. Worth reading the intervening release notes for feature and workflow changes before deciding whether
phases/scenariosstill describe it.Superpowers — v5.1.0 → v6.1.1
Major bump 5.x → 6.x (v6.1.1 released 2026-07-02). A major version on a methodology framework likely moves the workflow the core entry documents.
Method note
Versions were resolved with a double-source rule: pull both
releases/latestand/tags, take the newer. The two endpoints disagreed during this sweep (Frame's v2.4.0 appears only in tags), so a single-endpoint check is not reliable.Also confirmed as correctly unversioned, not stale: Conductor, Tessl, Traycer, and Zencoder ship no public repo;
snwfdhmp/awesome-ralphis a curated list rather than the Ralph technique itself.Detail:
docs/reassessment-2026-07-23.md(Part A).