custom-plugin-refresh

custom-plugin-refresh is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from acaprino/daodan. It costs 172 tokens per session (2,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance process for custom plugins that have no upstream project to compare against. It covers how to find stale versions, guidance, and other time-sensitive information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Classify freshness risks, choose what to review first, research current information, make focused updates, and mark refresh commits.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable way to decide what needs updating when changes are not automatically supplied by another source.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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 skills/acaprino/daodan/custom-plugin-refresh
Any agent
npx skills add acaprino/daodan --skill custom-plugin-refresh
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acaprino/daodan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,056 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 $0.00172 $0.02056
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00206

Measured 4d ago against content hash e3ec2b636b60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

custom-plugin-refresh 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 4d 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/skills/custom-plugin-refresh/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Custom plugin maintenance

A "custom plugin" is any plugin NOT listed in the sync table of the upstream-sync skill. Its content is hand-authored or research-grounded and has no upstream source to re-pull. If a plugin is not in that sync table, it falls under this skill.

Custom plugins decay differently than vendored ones. There is no upstream commit to diff against. Versions, framework recommendations, breaking-change notes, and "current as of 2026" claims become stale silently. The maintenance protocol below is the antidote.

Freshness risk classes

Classify each plugin into one of four classes. The class determines refresh cadence and triage priority.

Class What it tracks Typical cadence Examples
Very fast Versions bump every few months; breaking changes are common; ecosystem reshuffles Every 3 months rag-development (embedding models, rerankers, vector DBs), digital-marketing/ga4-implementation (Consent Mode, GA4 events), react-development (React 19, Vercel guidance)
Fast Framework releases 2-3x per year; APIs evolve Every 6 months libgdx-development, opentelemetry, tauri-development, stripe (API additions, webhook event types), grabber-development (anti-bot vendor moves), browser-extensions, pwa-expert (browser version churn, WebKit feature rollout, framework PWA library churn)
Moderate Major releases ~yearly; breaking changes rare Every 12 months trading-broker-integration, csp (OR-Tools), python-development, typescript-development, messaging (RabbitMQ majors), obsidian-development, abstraction-architect (theory is stable; URL list in further-reading.md decays on a yearly cadence)
Slow Workflow knowledge that ages by behavior change, not version bumps Opportunistic; review only when symptoms appear senior-review, codebase-mapper, team pipeline workflows, project-setup, marketplace-ops, system-utils, learning, docs, research, business, clean-code, codebase-xray, platform-engineering, testing methodology, xterm, app-analyzer, text-humanizer

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 4d ago First seen · 112 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A e3ec2b636b60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

custom-plugin-refresh is a skill published in the GitHub repository acaprino/daodan (8 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 2,056 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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