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SKILL.md should avoid time-sensitive references

Warning

Rule Details

Skills should contain evergreen content that remains accurate over time. References to specific dates ("January 15, 2025"), relative time ("last week", "this month"), or ISO date strings ("2025-01-15") become stale and misleading. This rule scans the SKILL.md body (after frontmatter) for patterns like "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow", "this/last/next week/month/year", full date strings, and ISO date formats. Each matching line is reported.

Incorrect

SKILL.md body with a specific date reference

markdown
---
name: deploy-app
description: Deploys the application
---

Updated on January 15, 2025 to support the new API.

SKILL.md body with relative time reference

markdown
---
name: deploy-app
description: Deploys the application
---

This week we migrated to the new deploy pipeline.

Correct

SKILL.md body with evergreen language

markdown
---
name: deploy-app
description: Deploys the application
---

Uses the current deploy pipeline with zero-downtime rollouts.

Version references instead of dates

markdown
---
name: deploy-app
description: Deploys the application
---

Supports API v2 and later.

How To Fix

Replace specific dates with version references or relative terms that age well. For example, use "recent versions" instead of "this month" and "API v2+" instead of "the January 2025 API update".

Options

This rule does not have any configuration options.

When Not To Use It

If the skill documentation intentionally tracks a changelog or release history with dates, you may disable this rule for that specific file.

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Version

Available since: v0.2.0