0.5.0

2026-05-08 · View on GitHub

What's New

GitHub Action

• First-party GitHub Action for running skillsaw as a PR check (uses: stbenjam/skillsaw@v0)
• Individual PR review comments per violation with fingerprint-based deduplication
• Automatic thread resolution for fixed violations via GraphQL
• Expression injection hardening in action.yml

Output Formats

• New --format and --output flags with text, JSON, SARIF, and HTML formatters
• SARIF upload support for GitHub Code Scanning
• Self-lint CI workflow with SARIF and HTML artifact upload

Rule Improvements

• Cached file I/O (read_text, read_json) to eliminate redundant reads across rules
• Line number reporting for frontmatter key and markdown heading violations
• allowed-tools now accepts YAML lists in addition to strings
• agentskill-evals and agentskill-evals-required default to error severity
• NO_COLOR environment variable support

Housekeeping

• Drop Python 3.8, add 3.13 and 3.14 support
• Auto-generated README rule docs and .skillsaw.yaml.example
• APM instruction for line number requirements in new rules