Switch red-hat-product-lifecycle skill to API-based script

[javierpena]

Summary

Replace WebFetch scraping with a stdlib Python script that queries the official Red Hat lifecycle API directly, returning structured JSON for reliable parsing across all products and versions.

Pack(s) affected

• ocp-admin
• rh-ai-engineer
• rh-automation
• rh-basic
• rh-developer
• rh-sre
• rh-virt
• Other / repo-wide

Change type

• New skill
• New agent
• New pack
• Update existing skill / agent
• MCP server config (mcps.json)
• Docs / README
• CI / tooling
• Federation (external pack)

Contribution method

• Created/imported with /agentic-contribution-skill
• Manual contribution (validated with make validate + make validate-skill-design-changed)

AGENTS.md compliance

• Agents orchestrate skills; no direct MCP/tool calls in agents
• Skills are single-purpose task executors
• Skills encapsulate all tool access (MCP tools invoked only inside skills)
• Document consultation: file is read with the Read tool, then declared to the user
• No credentials hardcoded; env vars used via ${VAR} references
• Human-in-the-loop confirmation added for any destructive or critical operations

Validation

• make validate passes locally
• New/changed skills have valid YAML frontmatter (name, description)
• New/changed agents have valid YAML frontmatter (name, description)

[javierpena]

I have run a test to compare the unchanged skill with my commit, and it is faster to provide a response with a smaller token usage, since it uses the API directly instead of fetching large web pages and scanning through them:

New version

❯ What is the end of support date for OpenShift 4.22?                                                                                                                                                                                  

● Skill(red-hat-product-lifecycle)
  ⎿  Successfully loaded skill

  Thought for 2s (ctrl+o to expand)

● Bash(python /home/jpena/.claude/skills/red-hat-product-lifecycle/scripts/rh_lifecycle.py "OpenShift 4.22")
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1
     {
       "error": "Version '4.22' not found for 'Red Hat OpenShift GitOps'",
       "available_versions": [
         "1.20",
         "1.19",
         "1.18",
         "1.17",
         "1.16",
         "1.15",
     … +16 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● Bash(python /home/jpena/.claude/skills/red-hat-product-lifecycle/scripts/rh_lifecycle.py "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22")
  ⎿  {
       "product": "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform",
       "version": "4.22",
     … +32 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● OpenShift Container Platform 4.22

  Phase: Full Support
  Dates: GA June 9, 2026 | End Full Support Dec 31, 2026 | End Maintenance Dec 31, 2027 | End EUS Term 2 June 30, 2029

  What this means: OCP 4.22 is currently in Full Support, receiving Critical/Important CVE fixes, urgent bug fixes, and hardware enablement updates.

  Action: Apply updates on your normal cadence. Note that 4.22 is an even-numbered minor release, making it eligible for Extended Update Support (EUS) — if you need a longer stable window, ensure your subscription covers EUS terms
  (extends support through June 30, 2029 with Terms 1 and 2).


  Session

  Total cost:            $0.4108
  Total duration (API):  18s
  Total duration (wall): 1m 1s
  Total code changes:    0 lines added, 0 lines removed
  Usage by model:
     claude-sonnet-4-6:  382 input, 513 output, 35.4k cache read, 104.4k cache write ($0.4108)

Old version

❯ What is the end of support date for OpenShift 4.22?                                                                                                                                                                                  

● Skill(red-hat-product-lifecycle)
  ⎿  Successfully loaded skill  

  Thought for 3s (ctrl+o to expand)

● Fetch(https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift)
  ⎿  Received 88.1KB (200 OK)

● Fetch(https://access.redhat.com/product-life-cycles?product=OpenShift%20Container%20Platform%204)
  ⎿  Received 62.4KB (200 OK)

  Thought for 2s (ctrl+o to expand)
  ⎿  Invalid tool parameters

● Web Search("OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 GA date end of life support dates 2026")
  ⎿  Did 7 searches in 45s

  Thought for 3s (ctrl+o to expand)

● Fetch(https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift_operators)
  ⎿  Received 1.5MB (200 OK)

● OpenShift Container Platform 4.22

  Phase: Full Support (as of June 26, 2026)
  Dates: GA June 9, 2026 | End Full Support December 31, 2026 | End Maintenance December 31, 2027 | EUS End June 30, 2028

  What this means: OCP 4.22 is an EUS (even-numbered) release currently in Full Support. It receives Critical/Important CVE fixes and urgent bug fixes. After December 31, 2026 it moves to Maintenance (security patches only), ending
  December 31, 2027 — or June 30, 2028 with the EUS add-on.

  Action: Apply updates on your normal cadence. If long-term stability is a priority, ensure you have an EUS subscription to extend support through June 30, 2028. With all three EUS terms, maximum support extends up to ~48 months
  from GA.

  Sources:
  - OpenShift Operator Life Cycles | Red Hat Customer Portal
  - OpenShift Container Platform Life Cycle | Red Hat Customer Portal
  - Product Life Cycles | Red Hat Customer Portal


  Session

  Total cost:            $1.07
  Total duration (API):  1m 27s
  Total duration (wall): 2m 27s
  Total code changes:    0 lines added, 0 lines removed
  Usage by model:
     claude-sonnet-4-6:  275.8k input, 3.3k output, 240.5k cache read, 13.0k cache write, 7 web search ($1.07)

[dmartinol]

Thank you for your contribution!
This repo will be soon archived and we're not accepting new commits.
Please move these changes to the new location at https://github.com/RHEcosystemAppEng/agentic-collections-skills

[dmartinol]

Reopened as we restored this repo. Thanks for your understanding!

[r2dedios]

@javierpena Could you please include the changes we discussed in RHEcosystemAppEng/agentic-collections-skills#1 again on this PR too? Thanks