update-vendored-skills

update-vendored-skills is a skill for Claude Code from connorads/dotfiles. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,939 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A safety workflow for refreshing third-party agent skills stored inside a dotfiles repository. Vendored skills are copied into the repository so they can be managed with the rest of its files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update, refresh, upgrade, re-pull, or assess the safety of vendored skills.
Why use it?
It helps check whether an unauthenticated refresh is safe or compromised before the changes are committed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to update, refresh, upgrade, re-pull, or assess the safety of vendored skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/connorads/dotfiles/update-vendored-skills
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.

Any agent
npx skills add connorads/dotfiles --skill update-vendored-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/connorads/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,939 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 unknown 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 5.1 $0.00092 $0.01939
Opus 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00776
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00194

Measured 29d ago against content hash d48994485784, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-vendored-skills 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 29d 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.

.config/skills/personal/update-vendored-skills/SKILL.md · 186 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 29d ago Changed · -2 lines d48994485784
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines de855861d247
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -33 lines · -31 tokens per session 55731729e775
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +46 lines 9e20b6012d9b
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 174 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A d47cc5d46dda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-vendored-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository connorads/dotfiles (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), with no licence file. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,939 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.