update

A manual command for checking and reinstalling the latest published version of a globally installed command-line package.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a newer version is available or to install the latest version with Bun or npm.
Why use it?
It gives you control over updates and prevents the package from changing without you running the command.

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/developerz-ai/ai-task-master/update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/developerz-ai/ai-task-master
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 312 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 $0.00000 $0.00312
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash fa61a84fc6df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update 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.

packages/aitm/docs/commands/update.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

aitm update

Manual self-update. Reinstalls the published @developerz.ai/aitm package globally — nothing ever updates automatically; the command only acts when you run it.

Signature

aitm update [--check]
Flag Effect
--check Only report whether a newer version exists on npm; never install.

Behavior

  1. Prints the current version (from the installed package) and the latest version published to the npm registry (@developerz.ai/aitm@latest).
  2. If they match: "Already up to date", exit 0, no install.
  3. With --check: reports whether an update is available and exits 0 without installing.
  4. Otherwise reinstalls globally, preferring bun install -g @developerz.ai/aitm@latest and falling back to npm install -g … when bun is not on PATH. Exit 1 (with the installer's stderr) when the install fails or when neither installer exists.

The registry lookup degrades gracefully: if npm's registry is unreachable, the install still runs — bun/npm resolve @latest themselves.

Seams

runUpdate (in src/cli/update.ts) takes an injectable fetchFn, runCmd, stdout, and currentVersion, so tests never touch the network or spawn installers.

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 · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fa61a84fc6df

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update is a command published in the GitHub repository developerz-ai/ai-task-master (5 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 312 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.