feat: add 5 lifecycle extensions to community catalog (#2049)

* feat: add 5 gstack-inspired lifecycle commands (critique, review, qa, ship, retro)

Add 5 new core command templates inspired by Garry Tan's GStack to complete
the spec-driven development lifecycle:

- /speckit.critique: Dual-lens product + engineering review before implementation
- /speckit.review: Staff-level code review (correctness, security, performance)
- /speckit.qa: Systematic QA testing (browser-driven and CLI modes)
- /speckit.ship: Release automation (pre-flight, changelog, CI, PR creation)
- /speckit.retro: Sprint retrospective with metrics and improvement suggestions

Each command includes:
- Command template in templates/commands/
- Output report template in templates/
- Extension hook support (before_*/after_*)
- YAML frontmatter with prerequisite scripts

Updated README.md workflow from 6 to 11 steps and added CHANGELOG entry.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* Revert "feat: add 5 gstack-inspired lifecycle commands (critique, review, qa, ship, retro)"

This reverts commit 6eb15a7a3e.

* feat: add 5 lifecycle extensions to community catalog

Add the following community extensions:
- staff-review: Staff-engineer-level code review
- qa: Systematic QA testing with browser/CLI validation
- ship: Release engineering automation
- retro: Sprint retrospective with metrics
- critique: Dual-lens spec and plan critique

Each extension is hosted in its own repository under arunt14/
with v1.0.0 releases available.

* fix: resolve mojibake encoding, sort keys, rename retro extension

- Fix double-encoded em dashes and arrows in catalog.community.json
- Sort extension entries alphabetically by key
- Rename 'Retrospective Extension' to 'Retro Extension' to avoid
  name collision with existing 'retrospective' extension

---------

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

README.md

@@ -203,12 +203,17 @@ The following community-contributed extensions are available in [`catalog.commun
 | Product Forge | Full product lifecycle: research → product spec → SpecKit → implement → verify → test | `process` | Read+Write | [speckit-product-forge](https://github.com/VaiYav/speckit-product-forge) |
 | Project Health Check | Diagnose a Spec Kit project and report health issues across structure, agents, features, scripts, extensions, and git | `visibility` | Read-only | [spec-kit-doctor](https://github.com/KhawarHabibKhan/spec-kit-doctor) |
 | Project Status | Show current SDD workflow progress — active feature, artifact status, task completion, workflow phase, and extensions summary | `visibility` | Read-only | [spec-kit-status](https://github.com/KhawarHabibKhan/spec-kit-status) |
+| QA Testing Extension | Systematic QA testing with browser-driven or CLI-based validation of acceptance criteria from spec | `code` | Read-only | [spec-kit-qa](https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa) |
 | Ralph Loop | Autonomous implementation loop using AI agent CLI | `code` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-ralph](https://github.com/Rubiss/spec-kit-ralph) |
 | Reconcile Extension | Reconcile implementation drift by surgically updating feature artifacts. | `docs` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-reconcile](https://github.com/stn1slv/spec-kit-reconcile) |
+| Retro Extension | Sprint retrospective analysis with metrics, spec accuracy assessment, and improvement suggestions | `process` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-retro](https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro) |
 | Retrospective Extension | Post-implementation retrospective with spec adherence scoring, drift analysis, and human-gated spec updates | `docs` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-retrospective](https://github.com/emi-dm/spec-kit-retrospective) |
 | Review Extension | Post-implementation comprehensive code review with specialized agents for code quality, comments, tests, error handling, type design, and simplification | `code` | Read-only | [spec-kit-review](https://github.com/ismaelJimenez/spec-kit-review) |
 | SDD Utilities | Resume interrupted workflows, validate project health, and verify spec-to-task traceability | `process` | Read+Write | [speckit-utils](https://github.com/mvanhorn/speckit-utils) |
+| Staff Review Extension | Staff-engineer-level code review that validates implementation against spec, checks security, performance, and test coverage | `code` | Read-only | [spec-kit-staff-review](https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review) |
 | Superpowers Bridge | Orchestrates obra/superpowers skills within the spec-kit SDD workflow across the full lifecycle (clarification, TDD, review, verification, critique, debugging, branch completion) | `process` | Read+Write | [superpowers-bridge](https://github.com/RbBtSn0w/spec-kit-extensions/tree/main/superpowers-bridge) |
+| Ship Release Extension | Automates release pipeline: pre-flight checks, branch sync, changelog generation, CI verification, and PR creation | `process` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-ship](https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship) |
+| Spec Critique Extension | Dual-lens critical review of spec and plan from product strategy and engineering risk perspectives | `docs` | Read-only | [spec-kit-critique](https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique) |
 | Spec Sync | Detect and resolve drift between specs and implementation. AI-assisted resolution with human approval | `docs` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-sync](https://github.com/bgervin/spec-kit-sync) |
 | Understanding | Automated requirements quality analysis — 31 deterministic metrics against IEEE/ISO standards with experimental energy-based ambiguity detection | `docs` | Read-only | [understanding](https://github.com/Testimonial/understanding) |
 | V-Model Extension Pack | Enforces V-Model paired generation of development specs and test specs with full traceability | `docs` | Read+Write | [spec-kit-v-model](https://github.com/leocamello/spec-kit-v-model) |

extensions/catalog.community.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "schema_version": "1.0",
-  "updated_at": "2026-03-30T00:00:00Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
   "catalog_url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/spec-kit/main/extensions/catalog.community.json",
   "extensions": {
     "aide": {
@@ -241,6 +241,36 @@
       "created_at": "2026-03-19T12:08:20Z",
       "updated_at": "2026-03-19T12:08:20Z"
     },
+    "critique": {
+      "name": "Spec Critique Extension",
+      "id": "critique",
+      "description": "Dual-lens critical review of spec and plan from product strategy and engineering risk perspectives.",
+      "author": "arunt14",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-critique/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.1.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 1,
+        "hooks": 1
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "docs",
+        "review",
+        "planning"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z"
+    },
     "docguard": {
       "name": "DocGuard — CDD Enforcement",
       "id": "docguard",
@@ -792,7 +822,7 @@
     "product-forge": {
       "name": "Product Forge",
       "id": "product-forge",
-      "description": "Full product lifecycle: research \u2192 product spec \u2192 SpecKit \u2192 implement \u2192 verify \u2192 test",
+      "description": "Full product lifecycle: research → product spec → SpecKit → implement → verify → test",
       "author": "VaiYav",
       "version": "1.1.1",
       "download_url": "https://github.com/VaiYav/speckit-product-forge/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.1.zip",
@@ -821,6 +851,36 @@
       "created_at": "2026-03-28T00:00:00Z",
       "updated_at": "2026-03-28T00:00:00Z"
     },
+    "qa": {
+      "name": "QA Testing Extension",
+      "id": "qa",
+      "description": "Systematic QA testing with browser-driven or CLI-based validation of acceptance criteria from spec.",
+      "author": "arunt14",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-qa/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.1.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 1,
+        "hooks": 1
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "code",
+        "testing",
+        "qa"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z"
+    },
     "ralph": {
       "name": "Ralph Loop",
       "id": "ralph",
@@ -893,6 +953,36 @@
       "created_at": "2026-03-14T00:00:00Z",
       "updated_at": "2026-03-14T00:00:00Z"
     },
+    "retro": {
+      "name": "Retro Extension",
+      "id": "retro",
+      "description": "Sprint retrospective analysis with metrics, spec accuracy assessment, and improvement suggestions.",
+      "author": "arunt14",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-retro/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.1.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 1,
+        "hooks": 0
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "process",
+        "retrospective",
+        "metrics"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z"
+    },
     "retrospective": {
       "name": "Retrospective Extension",
       "id": "retrospective",
@@ -959,6 +1049,36 @@
       "created_at": "2026-03-06T00:00:00Z",
       "updated_at": "2026-03-06T00:00:00Z"
     },
+    "ship": {
+      "name": "Ship Release Extension",
+      "id": "ship",
+      "description": "Automates release pipeline: pre-flight checks, branch sync, changelog generation, CI verification, and PR creation.",
+      "author": "arunt14",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-ship/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.1.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 1,
+        "hooks": 1
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "process",
+        "release",
+        "automation"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z"
+    },
     "speckit-utils": {
       "name": "SDD Utilities",
       "id": "speckit-utils",
@@ -991,6 +1111,36 @@
       "created_at": "2026-03-18T00:00:00Z",
       "updated_at": "2026-03-18T00:00:00Z"
     },
+    "staff-review": {
+      "name": "Staff Review Extension",
+      "id": "staff-review",
+      "description": "Staff-engineer-level code review that validates implementation against spec, checks security, performance, and test coverage.",
+      "author": "arunt14",
+      "version": "1.0.0",
+      "download_url": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.zip",
+      "repository": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review",
+      "documentation": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review/blob/main/README.md",
+      "changelog": "https://github.com/arunt14/spec-kit-staff-review/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
+      "license": "MIT",
+      "requires": {
+        "speckit_version": ">=0.1.0"
+      },
+      "provides": {
+        "commands": 1,
+        "hooks": 1
+      },
+      "tags": [
+        "code",
+        "review",
+        "quality"
+      ],
+      "verified": false,
+      "downloads": 0,
+      "stars": 0,
+      "created_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z",
+      "updated_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00Z"
+    },
     "status": {
       "name": "Project Status",
       "id": "status",