Guidance for managing R package lifecycle according to tidyverse principles using the lifecycle package. Use when: (1) Setting up lifecycle infrastructure in a package, (2) Deprecating functions or arguments, (3) Renaming functions or arguments, (4) Superseding functions, (5) Marking functions as experimental, (6) Understanding lifecycle stages (stable, experimental, deprecated, superseded), or…
Install
npx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill r-lifecyclenpx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill r-lifecycle -a claude-code -gnpx skills add posit-dev/skills --skill r-lifecycle -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/posit-dev/skills.git --path r-lib/r-lifecyclegh skill install posit-dev/skills r-lifecyclegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/posit-dev/skills /tmp/posit-dev__skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/posit-dev__skills/r-lib/r-lifecycle ~/.claude/skills/r-lifecycle # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/posit-dev__skills/r-lib/r-lifecycle ~/.agents/skills/r-lifecycle # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode