version-aligner

What This Skill Does

The version-aligner skill for OpenClaw is a sophisticated engine designed to manage complex multi-repository versioning strategies. In modern distributed architectures, keeping track of semantic versioning (Semver) across multiple interdependent repositories is prone to human error. This skill automates the application of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH rules, enforces compatibility constraints, and executes complex alignment strategies including Lockstep, Independent, and Umbrella versioning.

It parses your current project state to detect conflicts, suggests appropriate version bumps based on defined changes, and ensures that breaking changes trigger the correct MAJOR updates. Whether you are maintaining a monolithic product suite or a collection of decoupled microservices, the version-aligner ensures your versioning methodology remains consistent, transparent, and audit-ready.

Installation

To integrate the version-aligner into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anton-abyzov/sw-version-aligner

Use Cases

• Microservices Orchestration: Manage independent versioning for dozens of microservices while maintaining an umbrella product version for release tracking.
• Monorepo or Linked Repo Synchronization: Use Lockstep versioning to ensure that frontend and backend APIs never drift out of sync during massive refactors.
• Automated Release Governance: Automatically scan for breaking changes in pull requests and propose the next compliant Semver version before merging.
• Compatibility Auditing: Identify version drift across teams that could result in runtime dependency failures or integration bottlenecks.

Example Prompts

1. "Align our current repository versions to the Lockstep strategy; the backend API has a breaking change, so please suggest the new version numbers for all services."
2. "Analyze the dependencies in my independent project setup and verify if the latest frontend patch bump conflicts with the existing shared library version."
3. "Generate a release plan for our upcoming milestone, incrementing the product umbrella version to 6.0.0 and listing the necessary service-level updates."

Tips & Limitations

• Pre-release tags: Always use alpha/beta/rc tags during early development phases to keep the production version clean.
• Strategic Choice: Select your strategy carefully at the start of a project. Switching from Independent to Lockstep is complex and requires significant manual migration of version tags.
• Limitations: The skill requires clear commit history or provided change logs to accurately determine the level of a bump. It cannot infer breaking changes if code analysis is disabled or not provided in the context.