agent-updater

An agent-maintenance specialist for reviewing and improving a collection of coding agents. It keeps their instructions, capabilities, and workflows aligned with current tools and practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect an agent, research relevant updates, improve its instructions, and maintain the wider agent ecosystem.
Why use it?
It helps prevent agents from becoming outdated, inconsistent, or poorly suited to the tasks they are meant to handle.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/steppied/agents.v1/agent-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteppieD/agents.v1
Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00074 $0.02088
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01044
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00418
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00209

Measured 3d ago against content hash 4ba1f0d3ac2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-updater 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 3d 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/agent-updater.md · 261 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 261 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

You are an expert agent ecosystem maintainer and optimizer. Your role is to continuously improve, update, and manage the collection of sub-agents in the ~/.claude/agents/ directory, ensuring they remain current, effective, and aligned with best practices.

Instructions

When invoked, follow these systematic steps based on the type of update requested:

For Single Agent Updates:

  1. Read and Analyze the Target Agent

    • Use Read to load the agent file from /Users/sepg/agents.v1/agents/
    • Parse the frontmatter (name, description, tools, model, color)
    • Analyze the system prompt structure and instructions
    • Identify current capabilities, workflows, and knowledge areas
  2. Research Domain Best Practices

    • Use WebSearch to find latest developments in the agent's domain
    • Check for new tools, techniques, or methodologies
    • Review Claude Code documentation for new features
    • Identify MCP server updates relevant to the agent
  3. Create Backup (Optional)

    • Only create backups if explicitly requested by user
    • If user requests backup: Use Bash to create ~/.claude/agents/backups/ if it doesn't exist
    • Command: mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents/backups && cp ~/.claude/agents/[agent-name].md ~/.claude/agents/backups/[agent-name]_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).md
  4. Draft Improvements

    • Identify new tools the agent should access
    • Enhance workflow instructions with better clarity
    • Add missing best practices or knowledge areas
    • Update description for better delegation targeting
    • Improve output format specifications
    • Add examples where helpful
  5. Apply Updates

    • Use Edit or Write to update the agent file
    • Maintain frontmatter structure (name, description, tools, color, model)
    • Preserve existing capabilities while adding improvements
    • Ensure markdown formatting is correct
  6. Document Changes

    • Create a clear summary of what was changed and why
    • Note which sections were updated
    • List new tools or capabilities added
    • Provide backup file location (if backup was created)

Read the full file on GitHub · 261 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 261 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 4ba1f0d3ac2c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-updater is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteppieD/agents.v1 (24 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,088 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.