docs(changelog): add v6.11.0 entry and sync marketplace.json

[bmadcode]

Release notes for v6.11.0 — a minor bump. Twelve breaking changes, but the repo reserves shim removal for the v7 cut, so every retired ID still resolves.

Covers 61 merged PRs since v6.10.0. #2587 and #2598 are omitted as a land-then-revert pair with net-zero effect. Each entry was written from the closed PR rather than the merge subject.

The entry

12 breaking changes · 18 features · 18 fixes · 4 removals, under a four-paragraph headline:

• Quick Dev becomes Build — one official way BMad implements code; Phase 4 is bmad-sprint-planning → bmad-build → bmad-code-review
• The catalog gets smaller — core drops from fourteen skills to eight
• Skills read evidence instead of guessing — retrospective, sprint-planning, project-context
• Under the hood — content-addressed snapshots, the agents / plan / ship tree, and ~1,900 more lines deleted than added across 560 files

Includes two entries for #2704, which is open alongside this PR.

marketplace.json

Two problems, both fixed here.

Versions had drifted. All six plugins still read 6.10.0. Nothing in publish.yaml touches this file — npm version writes package.json only — so the drift is chronic, not a one-off: v6.8.0 shipped the marketplace at 6.6.0, and both v6.9.0 and v6.10.0 shipped it at 6.8.0. All six now read 6.11.0.

The lifecycle plugin listed six deprecated skills — bmad-quick-dev, bmad-create-story, bmad-dev-story, bmad-sprint-status, bmad-document-project, bmad-generate-project-context. A published plugin should expose current skills, not forwarding shims. Removed, with bmad-project-context added in their place (31 → 25 skills).

⚠️ Worth a decision: this means the "old IDs keep working through a shim" guarantee holds for module installs but not plugin-marketplace installs. Say the word and I'll add a sentence to the breaking-changes section spelling that out.

Skills arrays are also sorted by path, which groups them agents → plan → ship → core-skills. That loses the previous rough workflow ordering, in exchange for making drift like this obvious.

Verification

Every path in marketplace.json resolves to a real SKILL.md; no shim or husk remains in any of the six plugins; membership is unchanged by the sort. npm run validate:skills passes (49 skills). npm test passes.

Follow-up worth considering

A CI guard so plugin versions can't drift from package.json again. I'd put it in quality as a check that fails on mismatch, rather than an auto-rewrite in publish.yaml — the version-bump commit happens after tests run, so a rewrite there would land unverified.

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Once this merges, the release is triggered manually:

gh workflow run publish.yaml --ref main -f channel=latest -f bump=minor

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The marketplace manifest updates plugin versions from 6.10.0 to 6.11.0. It also revises the bmad-analysis and bmad-method-lifecycle skill lists.

Changes

Marketplace configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Plugin version alignment .claude-plugin/marketplace.json	Updates five plugin entries to version 6.11.0.
Skill configuration refresh .claude-plugin/marketplace.json	Reorders bmad-analysis skills and replaces legacy bmad-method-lifecycle paths with current skill paths.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD#2136: Directly updates marketplace plugin versions and skill lists.
• bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD#2356: Updates plugin version fields in the marketplace manifest.
• bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD#2457: Updates marketplace versions and skill lists, including bmad-method-lifecycle.

Suggested reviewers: alexeyv

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the v6.11.0 changelog entry and marketplace.json synchronization.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes both primary changes: adding the v6.11.0 changelog entry and synchronizing marketplace.json.
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