Dart Package Maintenance

This walks you through the mechanical parts of maintaining a Dart package: checking that your changelog matches pubspec.yaml, following semantic versioning rules, and handling the publish workflow with git tags. It's opinionated about WIP suffixes and warns you not to add changelog entries to already-released versions, which is the kind of mistake you make exactly once before wanting a checklist. The PR guidance is standard (squash commits, merge instead of rebase), but the real value is having versioning rules and pre-publish checks spelled out when you're juggling multiple packages and can't remember if breaking changes mean 0.5.0 or 0.6.0 for unstable versions.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add kevmoo/dash_skills --skill dart-package-maintenance --agent claude-code

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Dart Package Maintenance

Guidelines for maintaining Dart packages in alignment with the canonical Dart team External Package Maintenance specification.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when:

Updating Dart packages, preparing for a release, or managing collaborative changes in a repository.
Managing versioning, CHANGELOG.md synchronization, and publishing workflows.
Ensuring published packages comply with Dart team conventions.