# Changelog — ICC skill

All notable changes to the `icc/` skill. Versions follow the suite-level
versioning indicated in the top-level `README.md`.

## v1.1.5 — 2026-10-06

### Changed
- The ICC Legal Tools Database (`legal-tools.org`) is now the **first
  retrieval stop** throughout the skill: the fallback ladders, the workflow,
  and the worked examples start there, with `icc-cpi.int` as the second
  rung. The Database registers the Court's public decisions comprehensively,
  each under a Persistent URL, and answers automated retrieval reliably,
  where direct icc-cpi.int fetches 403 structurally. The source hierarchy
  itself is unchanged — both remain Tier 1, and icc-cpi.int remains the
  Court's official website.

## v1.1.4 — 2026-09-27

### Added
- `references/authoritative-sources.md`: the ICC Case Law Database
  (`legal-tools.org/cld`) noted under the Legal Tools entry — the ICC
  counterpart of the IRMCT Case Law Database the ICTY/ICTR guide already
  designates. Locating aid; citation and verification unchanged.

## v1.1.3 — 2026-09-25

### Added
- `references/authoritative-sources.md`: CLICC / Lexsitus
  (`cilrap-lexsitus.org`) added to Tier 2 — CILRAP's free,
  provision-by-provision commentary on the Rome Statute and the RPE, the
  natural first stop for interpretation questions on a specific article.
  Citable as doctrine only; holdings still verify against Tier 1.

## v1.1.2 — 2026-06-02

Substantive correction following an expert verification pass.

- **Corrected the Article 28 numbering throughout the skill.** The Rome
  Statute's Article 28 uses lettered subparagraphs — `28(a)` (military
  commanders) and `28(b)` (other superiors), each with roman-numeral
  sub-elements — and has no numbered paragraphs. Earlier versions wrongly
  presented `Article 28(1)/(2)` as the Statute's numbering and `28(a)/(b)`
  as practitioner shorthand; this was inverted. Updated
  `references/citation-format.md`, `SKILL.md`,
  `references/verification-workflow.md`, and both examples to use `28(a)`
  (the *Bemba* military regime) and `28(b)` (the civilian / other-superior
  regime). The top-level `CLAUDE.md` constraint was corrected to match.

## v1.1.1 — 2026-05-30

Editorial consistency pass (suite-wide review); no substantive changes.

- Corrected the content-file count in the v1.0 and v1.1 notes (six files, not seven).
- Replaced tick and cross check-mark symbols in `verification-workflow.md` and the examples with plain-text markers, to match the suite's no-symbol house style.

## v1.1 — 2026-05-27

Reorganisation into the standard skill layout.

- Moved the six existing ICC content files from the repository root into
  `icc/references/` and `icc/examples/`.
- Added `icc/SKILL.md` as the skill entry point, gathering the core
  discipline, when-to-use guidance, workflow summary, pointers to the
  reference and example materials, and the five hard rules.
- Added this changelog.

No substantive changes to the content of the reference or example files in
this revision.

## v1.0 — initial

Initial content of the ICC skill, authored as six Markdown files:

- `authoritative-sources.md` — source hierarchy and icc-cpi.int fallback
  ladder.
- `citation-format.md` — citation formats for the foundational instruments
  and ICC documents; Article 28 shorthand discussion.
- `verification-workflow.md` — operational procedure and three-level
  verification gradient.
- `foundational-texts.md` — the four foundational ICC texts and what is
  not foundational.
- `example-verification.md` — worked verification examples (Bemba,
  Ntaganda).
- `example-audit.md` — working-draft audit and Court-record audit modes.