update

update is a command for Claude Code from TheColliery/CoalTipple. It costs 26 tokens per session (644 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of update, Apache-2.0.

A command for checking whether a newer version of CoalTipple is available and choosing how future update checks are handled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to select automatic checks, reminders, or no checks, and to start a manual update procedure.
Why use it?
It gives you control over update reminders and avoids unexpected configuration changes or repeated checks.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin.

Part of the coaltipple plugin — 4 commands, 2 hooks, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to select automatic checks, reminders, or no checks, and to start a manual update procedure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/thecolliery/coaltipple/update
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheColliery/CoalTipple

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coaltipple, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands, 2 hooks, 1 plugin.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 644 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00026 $0.00644
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00258
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured yesterday against content hash f16b85f39496, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to update — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

commands/update.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

CoalTipple keeps itself current through the conductor (session start), gated by .coaltipple.json updateMode (ask | auto | remind | off, default ask) and throttled to once per updateCheckDays (default 14). Self-update runs only while routing is on: routing off (enableRouting: false, mode: "off" or disableRouting: ["all"]) silences the whole conductor, self-update included, and no stamp is written; with routing on, its own off-switch is updateMode: off. This command is the agent procedure each mode triggers — and a manual entry point. Always answer in the user's language; offer choices via your question tool; never spend tokens or change config without a chosen option.

ask — present the 3-way choice via your question tool:

  • auto — the agent web-checks on a ~updateCheckDays cadence and offers updates (~1-2K tokens/check).
  • remind — a free periodic reminder; the user runs the update themselves.
  • off — no reminders.

Save the pick (no forced check — the chosen mode drives future sessions): set updateMode (auto, remind or off) directly in the GLOBAL config file ~/.claude/.coaltipple.json (the one under CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR if that is set) with your edit tool; an installed plugin has no scripts/. In a source checkout of CoalTipple, node scripts/configure.mjs --updateMode <auto|remind|off> does the same.

auto (the version CHECK — the only token spend, standing-consented):

  1. Get the latest published tag (graceful — never assume git/network is present): git ls-remote --tags --sort=-v:refname https://github.com/TheColliery/CoalTipple.git | head -1 (parse the trailing vX.Y.Z; ignore ^{} deref lines).
  2. Compare to the installed version in .claude-plugin/plugin.json (the plugin cache copy, or the repo copy if working from source).
  3. If a newer tag exists → OFFER (don't auto-run): claude plugin update coaltipple@coaltipple then /reload-plugins. If current → "up to date."
  4. Graceful fallback (no-external-assumption): if git ls-remote fails, git is missing, or there is no network, say "Can't check for updates offline — update manually with claude plugin update coaltipple@coaltipple when you're back online" and stop. Never crash, never assume a version.

remind — nothing for the agent to do; the conductor already surfaced the free reminder line. (If invoked manually, run the auto check above on request.)

off — no update activity.

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. yesterday Changed f16b85f39496
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 038ee7c1d6bb

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update is a command published in the GitHub repository TheColliery/CoalTipple (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 644 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to update, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.