ss-update

ss-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bitjaru/styleseed. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,977 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An update tool for an existing StyleSeed installation, using the exact maintained rules and skills revision for the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update StyleSeed rules or skills, recompile the project bundle, and verify the active installation.
Why use it?
It checks that the installed method bundle matches the intended revision while keeping the project’s own design choices intact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the styleseed plugin — 24 skills shipped together

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/bitjaru/styleseed/ss-update
Any agent
npx skills add bitjaru/styleseed --skill ss-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitjaru/styleseed

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install styleseed, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ss-update

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bitjaru/styleseed/ss-update.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bitjaru/styleseed/ss-update)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bitjaru/styleseed/ss-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bitjaru/styleseed/ss-update.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,977 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 $0.00033 $0.01977
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00988
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00198

Measured today against content hash daeaa0c0a210, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/artifact-impact.mjs, scripts/check-update.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

engine/.claude/skills/ss-update/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StyleSeed update

Registry-first artifact boundary

When .styleseed/project.json and .styleseed/artifacts/index.json exist, resolve the requested artifact ID first, then read only .styleseed/bundles/<artifact-id>.md and .styleseed/manifests/<artifact-id>.json. Never fall back to the global legacy bundle for a registry project. Legacy projects may use .styleseed/effective-rules.md only when no registry exists.

Update the engine payload, not the user's product UI. A release version describes a published line; engineRevision identifies the exact maintained rules, skills, entry docs, and palette engine. Two installs with the same release version are not proven equal until their revisions match.

The checker verifies the payload for the active install channel. A repository/plugin checkout uses the full core inventory; a project-local Agent Skills install uses the executable skills inventory. The published endpoint must expose both the engine revision and, for a skills-only install, skillsRevision. The project manifest continues to record the engine revision that compiled its method bundle.

The bundled catalog also records distributionSource.channel. edge follows the mutable public repository state; stable follows the latest published release manifest. Do not compare a stable archive directly to edge main unless the user explicitly requests a channel switch.

When not to use

  • First installation → /ss-setup or $ss-setup.
  • One new screen or component → /ss-build, /ss-page, or /ss-component.
  • A redesign of old UI → update first, then offer the optional retrofit step below.
  • A heavily forked StyleSeed payload → stop after the dry-run report and request a manual diff.

Ownership boundary

StyleSeed owns installed ss-* skill payloads and compiled .styleseed/effective-rules.md. The project owns STYLESEED.md, application code, components, tokens, assets, and any existing AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or Cursor instructions. Never overwrite project-owned files merely to update StyleSeed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · +8 lines daeaa0c0a210
  2. 4d ago First seen · 171 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bf7e6236caf1

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ss-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository bitjaru/styleseed (939 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,977 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.