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Conventional Branch 1.1.0 Released—Official Support for AI Coding Agent Branch Prefixes

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Conventional Branch specification receives its first major update. Version 1.1.0 adds support for AI Coding Agent branch prefixes (ai/, copilot/, cursor/, claude/, codex/), and provides a machine-readable spec.json and agent registry, making the specification useful not only for humans but also for tools.

Conventional Branch Official Skill Is Here—Install with One Command

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A user opened an issue hoping Conventional Branch could provide an official Agent Skill, which I thought was a very reasonable request. I implemented it the same day, and now it can be downloaded and used with a single npx skills add command. Coincidentally, the project also surpassed 100 Stars this week, so I’ll talk about that too.

DeepSeek V4—Bringing Down the Cost of Using Coding Agents

xianpeng.shen@gmail.com (Xianpeng Shen) — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Codex auto-renewed this month. I hadn’t really planned on continuing my subscription, but this renewal prompted me to re-evaluate the actual experience with Codex, DeepSeek V4 series, and Copilot. For me, the core difference among AI coding tools is no longer just model capability, but rather which one can help me write code more stably, affordably, and consistently.