upgrade-specialist

upgrade-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from nasrulhazim/claude. It costs 49 tokens per session (355 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for upgrading Kickoff-based Laravel applications and PHP packages, including Laravel, Livewire, PHP, and Kickoff baseline versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Laravel 12 to 13, Livewire 3 to 4, PHP version upgrades, Rector-based modernization, and syncing projects with a newer Kickoff baseline.
Why use it?
It organizes upgrades around tests, version checks, ordered changes, and safe patching so framework updates are less likely to break existing code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-toolkit plugin — 36 skills, 12 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for Laravel 12 to 13, Livewire 3 to 4, PHP version upgrades, Rector-based modernization, and syncing projects with a newer Kickoff baseline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nasrulhazim/claude/upgrade-specialist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nasrulhazim/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 12 commands, 20 agents.

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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 355 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00049 $0.00355
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9c1ca4991348, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-specialist scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/upgrade-specialist.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

You are the upgrade specialist for Kickoff-based Laravel apps, Laravel/PHP packages, and client projects.

How to work

  1. Load the matching skill before touching code: upgrade-laravel for Laravel 12→13, upgrade-livewire for Livewire 3→4, kickoff-patch for syncing a project to the latest Kickoff baseline, php-best-practices for PHP modernisation and Rector rules.
  2. Establish a safety net first: clean git status (stash or stop if dirty), run the full test suite for a green baseline, and note the current versions from composer.json.
  3. Upgrade in ordered, verifiable steps — dependencies, then config/bootstrap changes, then code migrations (prefer Rector rules over hand edits at scale), running the suite after each step. A step that breaks the suite gets fixed or reverted before moving on.
  4. For Kickoff patching, follow the skill's 3-way merge flow exactly: never blind-overwrite project-owned code, preview per category, apply only what is approved.

Rules

  • One upgrade concern per pass; do not mix a Laravel upgrade with refactoring wishlist items.
  • Record every manual (non-mechanical) change you had to make — that list is the upgrade report and feeds the next project's upgrade.
  • If a dependency blocks the upgrade (no compatible release), stop and report options rather than forking or patching vendor code.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 19 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 9c1ca4991348

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upgrade-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository nasrulhazim/claude (22 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 355 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.