paulund/ai v3.0.0 - Skills-only layout and new planning skills

v3.0.0 is a major release that simplifies how the repo is structured and adds a batch of skills aimed at closing the loop between idea and shipped PR.

What changed

The plugin system is gone. Previously, skills were grouped under named plugins with their own configuration, which added indirection when you just wanted to use a skill. The new layout is a flat directory at the repo root — every skill lives there directly with no plugin wrapping required.

Six new skills ship with this release:

• Plan — takes an idea or spec and breaks it into vertical-slice GitHub issues, ready to feed into the ship loop
• Ship — picks the next ready issue, implements it with TDD, runs quality gates, and opens a PR
• Next.js best practices — reference guidance for Next.js 15 App Router projects
• TypeScript best practices — strict-mode TypeScript patterns and type safety rules
• Learnt — captures session learnings and writes them to persistent memory for future conversations
• Merge main — merges origin/main into the current branch and resolves conflicts

The writing humanizer skill also received an expanded set of patterns to catch.

Why it matters

The plan/ship pair completes an autonomous development loop: plan turns a rough idea into structured issues, ship picks one up and sees it through to a PR. Together they let Claude Code handle the full cycle from backlog to merged code with minimal manual steering.

The flat layout removes a friction point for anyone pulling individual skills into their own projects. No configuration file to maintain — just reference the skill file directly.

How to upgrade

If you were using the plugin system, remove any plugin configuration and reference skill files directly from the repo root instead. The skill names and behaviour are unchanged.

Links

• Release on GitHub