bump-mathlib

A command for updating the mathlib dependency in a Lean project and repairing errors caused by the update. Mathlib is Lean’s large community library of mathematics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update mathlib in a standalone project or mathlib itself, refresh dependencies, build the code, and resolve resulting errors.
Why use it?
Library updates can change names, definitions, or behavior; this workflow finds the new version and fixes the resulting build failures.

Command

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 commands/cbirkbeck/mathlib-quality/bump-mathlib
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CBirkbeck/mathlib-quality
Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,939 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 $0.00016 $0.02939
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01470
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00294

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3d87acd6229a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bump-mathlib 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 2d 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.

commands/bump-mathlib.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/bump-mathlib - Bump Mathlib and Fix Breakage

Update the mathlib dependency (or merge upstream for mathlib PRs), build, and fix all errors caused by the bump.

Usage

/bump-mathlib                    # Auto-detect context and bump to latest
/bump-mathlib <commit-or-date>   # Bump to a specific mathlib version/date

Workflow

Step 1: Detect Context

Determine whether this is:

A) A standalone project using mathlib as a dependency

  • Has lakefile.lean or lakefile.toml with a mathlib dependency
  • Check for require mathlib in lakefile

B) A mathlib PR (working directly in mathlib4)

  • Check: git remote -v shows leanprover-community/mathlib4
  • Or: current repo IS mathlib4

Report which context was detected before proceeding.

Step 2: Perform the Bump

Context A: Standalone Project
  1. Read the current lakefile (lakefile.lean or lakefile.toml)
  2. Find the current mathlib revision (look for require mathlib with a rev or commit hash)
  3. Update to the target version:
    • If no target specified: update to latest mathlib master
    • If target specified: use that commit/tag
  4. Run lake update mathlib to update the lockfile
# Update lake-manifest.json
lake update mathlib
Context B: Mathlib PR
  1. Ensure upstream remote exists:
    git remote -v | grep upstream || git remote add upstream https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib4.git
    
  2. Fetch upstream:
    git fetch upstream
    
  3. Merge upstream master:
    git merge upstream/master
    
  4. If there are merge conflicts, resolve them:
    • For files only modified in upstream: accept theirs
    • For files modified in both: present conflicts to user for guidance
    • For files only modified locally: keep ours

Step 3: Fetch Cached Artifacts (verification gate)

CRITICAL: Always fetch the Mathlib cache before building, otherwise compilation will take hours.

lake exe cache get

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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. 2d ago First seen · 310 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 3d87acd6229a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bump-mathlib is a command published in the GitHub repository CBirkbeck/mathlib-quality (32 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 2,939 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.