v5 - Agents - Dependency update skill - #2944
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This pull request introduces the android-update-dependencies-v5 agent skill and its accompanying DIFFERENCES.md file, which documents deliberate build and workflow differences between the v5 and main branches. The feedback points out a minor typo in DIFFERENCES.md where release_snapshot.yml was misspelled as release_snaphot.yml.
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Renovate opens an "All v5 dependencies" PR against v5 every three months. The work it needs is repeatable but not obvious: v5 must not exceed main, must keep building at its own min-sdk, must not diverge on its own, and carries a set of differences from main that are deliberate and must not be "fixed". `SKILL.md` records the process, the three rules and their ordering, how to derive the min-sdk ceilings rather than trusting a stored table, how to triage the API dump churn a Kotlin major produces, and the verification and reporting expected before the PR is considered ready. `DIFFERENCES.md` is the decision record: what is deliberately different from main, why, and which PR wrote it down. The two are split because they change at different rates. The process should be near-static, while the record changes whenever a difference is accepted or resolved. General commit, branch, PR and check guidance stays on main and is read from there rather than duplicated, so only these two files live on v5.
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Renovate opens an "All v5 dependencies" PR against
v5every three months. The work it needs is repeatable but not obvious, and until now it lived only in the heads of whoever did it last. This adds a skill so the next person, or their agent, starts from the same place.Two files, split because they change at different rates:
SKILL.md— the process. Three rules and their ordering, the ten steps, how to derive theminSdkceilings from AAR manifests rather than trusting a stored table, how to triage the API dump churn a Kotlin major produces, and the verification and reporting expected before the PR is called done.DIFFERENCES.md— the decision record. What is deliberately different frommain, why, and which PR wrote it down. The process should be near-static; this changes whenever a difference is accepted or resolved.General commit, branch, PR and check guidance stays on
mainand is read from there rather than duplicated, so only these two files live on v5.Stacked on #2886 — the differences recorded here are the ones settled while working that PR.
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