feat: add documentation staleness checks to issue-lifecycle skill#911
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feat: add documentation staleness checks to issue-lifecycle skill#911
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The issue-lifecycle adversarial review now checks whether planned changes affect design docs or skills that need updating. This catches documentation drift at planning time rather than after the fact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
design/*.mdor.claude/skills/and include update steps if sodocumentationas a valid finding category for adversarial review findingsWhy
Design docs and skills drift out of sync with the codebase when PRs change behavior without updating the documentation that describes it. This is hard to catch after the fact because the people making changes have the context at planning time but not later. By embedding the check into the issue-lifecycle adversarial review — which already blocks approval on unresolved findings — we catch documentation gaps before code is written, when the fix is cheap.
Impact
Every issue triaged through the issue-lifecycle model will now have documentation impact evaluated at two points:
This is a skill-only change with no code changes. It modifies the instructions that guide Claude's behavior during issue triage and plan review.
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