smith-update

An updater for Smith, a software-development workflow system. It compares the installed version with the latest version on GitHub and refreshes Smith’s shared and project-specific files when an update is needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether Smith is out of date, update it, and refresh its installed commands, hooks, configuration, and project files.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually check for newer versions and repeat the installation steps. It can also address projects whose generated Smith files use an older format.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/attckdigital/smith/smith-update
Any agent
npx skills add ATTCKDigital/smith --skill smith-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ATTCKDigital/smith

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,206 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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 $0.00096 $0.06206
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.03103
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00621

Measured 2d ago against content hash 115472f88183, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

smith-update scanned grade D with 2 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

cp "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" "$BACKUP_DIR/settings.json" 2>/dev/null || true

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

trap 'rm -rf "$TMPCLONE"' EXIT # extended at Phase 6 to include marker cleanup
skills/smith-update/SKILL.md · 499 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 499 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Smith — Update to Latest

End-to-end skill for keeping Smith up to date. Detects local-vs-upstream commit drift, prompts to update, and runs the existing installer plus per-project refresh steps when invoked inside a Smith-initialized project.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS (no positional args; reserved for future flags like --check / --no-project)

When to Use

  • "is smith out of date?" / "update smith" / "let's update smith"
  • After learning of a new Smith feature you want to adopt
  • After an old project's .smith/index/ was generated against an earlier manifest schema and needs regeneration

Vault Logging

Throughout this action, log significant events to the vault session log. Read the session log path from .smith/vault/.current-session. If the file is missing or the vault is not initialized, skip all logging silently.

Format:

### [HH:MM:SS] /smith-update <event>

**User Request:**
> <verbatim user message that triggered this action>

**Synthesized Input:** <brief summary>
**Outcome:** <what happened>
**Artifacts:** <files created/modified>
**Systems affected:** smith-update (smith-repo distribution)

Log at: invocation, after version detection (with SHAs + commits-behind), after global update, after per-project update, on completion.

Natural Language Triggers

If the user says any of these (or similar), treat as invoking this command:

  • "update smith"
  • "let's update smith"
  • "is smith out of date"
  • "smith is behind"
  • "pull the latest smith"

Phase 0: Activate Workflow Tracking (Workflow-Gate Compliance)

/smith-update writes many files: install.sh's destructive cp -R of skills, the version file, settings.json merge, per-project script copies, etc. The PreToolUse workflow-gate hook (PR #20) would deny all of these without an active marker. So create the marker first.

Skip if no .smith/ directory exists in the current working directory (the gate naturally exits silent in that case per PR #20, so no marker is needed). Otherwise:

Read the full file on GitHub · 499 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 · 499 lines · 96 tokens per session scan D 115472f88183

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smith-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository ATTCKDigital/smith (52 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 6,206 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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