Skills

Trpc Compat

Check that a tRPC change is safe for released desktop, mobile, CLI, and SDK builds...

Install

npx skills add ParadevAI/Paradev --skill trpc-compat -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
ParadevAI/Paradev15.8k
Category
DevOps
Updated
3d ago
License
See repository
Context cost
Mediumabout 1,593 tokens
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What it does

Check that a tRPC change is safe for released desktop, mobile, CLI, and SDK builds, pick the compatible pattern, and decide when a deprecated procedure can be removed. Use when changing, renaming, or removing an existing procedure, input field, or output field in packages/trpc or packages/host-service, when reviewing such a PR, or when a deploy broke released clients.

tRPC compatibility

On 2026-09-23, #7726 changed page.list from a bare array to { items, nextCursor }. It updated every caller on main, so typecheck and tests passed. Desktop 1.30.0, 1.30.2 still called .map on the result, and every workspace view crashed (SEV1, 337 Sentry events, postmortem "page.list response change crashed released desktop apps"). CI only sees main. This skill is how you check the builds CI cannot see.

1. Find released callers

Search the release tags, not main. Run git fetch --tags first in a fresh clone.

PROC='page\.list(?!Paginated)'   # the procedure path; exclude longer names that share the prefix
FLOOR=1.29.0                     # MINIMUM_DESKTOP_VERSION in apps/api/src/app/api/desktop/version/route.ts
for v in $({ echo "$FLOOR"; git tag -l 'desktop-v*' | sed 's/^desktop-v//'; } | awk '!/-/' | sort -uV | sed -n "/^$FLOOR\$/,\$p"); do
  git rev-parse -q --verify "refs/tags/desktop-v$v" >/dev/null || continue
  git grep -q -P "$PROC" "desktop-v$v" -- apps/desktop && echo "desktop-v$v calls it"
done
  • Desktop: every desktop-v* tag at or above the floor is live.
  • CLI: same loop with cli-v* tags and -- packages/cli. The CLI has no floor, so check every tag you can; old installs stay in use.
  • Mobile: no tags, and MINIMUM_MOBILE_VERSION is 1.0.0. If apps/mobile on main calls it, or git log -S shows it ever did, treat it as called by a live build.
  • SDK: packages/sdk calls procedures by string (/api/trpc/<procedure>). Search main and git log -S the same way.
  • host-service procedures: callers are desktop, CLI, and mobile, and the host can be older or newer than the client. See packages/host-service/AGENTS.md.

Any hit means the procedure is live. Its input and output are frozen.

2. Check usage data

The API samples 1% of calls into the PostHog event api_procedure_called. Run this in the PostHog SQL editor or through the PostHog MCP:

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