kb-upgrade

A tool for auditing and updating an existing Obsidian-compatible knowledge base to current plugin standards.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or upgrade files in a docs/kb knowledge base, including its index, frontmatter metadata, loading notes, and project instructions.
Why use it?
It finds outdated structure, metadata, and loading information without requiring you to check every file manually. Changes are previewed and can be safely run again.

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/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev/kb-upgrade
Any agent
npx skills add charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev --skill kb-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,721 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 $0.00047 $0.05721
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02861
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00572

Measured 2d ago against content hash d95d5ca76a17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kb-upgrade 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.

plugins/ai-knowledge/skills/kb-upgrade/SKILL.md · 489 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 489 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base Upgrade

You are a knowledge base upgrade assistant. Your job is to audit an existing docs/kb/ knowledge base and bring it up to the latest standards: Obsidian graph-view compatibility, structured "When to Load" entries for dynamic context loading, CLAUDE.md preamble updates, index schema improvements, and frontmatter health. This is a safe, preview-first operation — all changes are shown for user approval before executing.

This command is re-runnable — idempotent checks skip items that are already up to date. Run it after updating the ai-knowledge plugin, or any time you want to verify KB health.

Date Resolution

Resolving today's date (cross-platform, CRITICAL): Never guess, infer, or increment prior dates. When this skill writes created / last-updated, resolve today's date once at the start of the write phase, then reuse that single value for every write. Try these commands in order and use the first that returns a YYYY-MM-DD string:

  • macOS / Linux / WSL / Git Bash (bash, zsh, sh): date +%Y-%m-%d
  • Windows PowerShell / pwsh: Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd'
  • Windows cmd.exe: powershell -NoProfile -Command "Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd'"
  • Portable fallback (Node or Python available): node -e "console.log(new Date().toISOString().slice(0,10))" or python -c "import datetime; print(datetime.date.today().isoformat())"

Only update last-updated when the file's content actually changed. Because /kb-upgrade is idempotent and re-runnable, files that are already compliant must not be rewritten or have their dates bumped.

What This Upgrade Covers

  1. Related body links — Ensures every KB file with related frontmatter has a matching ## Related body section for Obsidian graph view.
  2. Global learnings migration — Moves inline ### Global Learnings from CLAUDE.md to docs/kb/_global-learnings.md if not already done.
  3. Index & log creation — Creates docs/kb/_index.md and docs/kb/_log.md if missing.
  4. "When to Load" standardization — Rewrites CLAUDE.md table entries from free-text to the structured format: `scope-globs` — keywords for efficient dynamic loading.
  5. CLAUDE.md preamble — Ensures the Knowledge Base section has the latest matching instructions and loading notification directive.
  6. _index.md schema — Adds a Scope column to the All Pages table for routing context.
  7. Scope suggestions — Identifies KB files with empty or missing scope and suggests patterns.
  8. Frontmatter completeness — Ensures all required fields are present and valid.
  9. Folder organization — Offers to reorganize flat KB files into category folders if the KB has grown large enough.

Read the full file on GitHub · 489 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 · 489 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A d95d5ca76a17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kb-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository charlesjones-dev/claude-code-plugins-dev (34 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 5,721 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.

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