update

A command that updates the DevStride plugin installation currently in use to its latest published version and checks the installed files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you explicitly want to update DevStride now. It can update a shared installation or one limited to the current project, subject to its safety checks.
Why use it?
It avoids updating the wrong copy of the plugin or treating an unsuccessful update as complete. It also tells you when the coding agent must be reloaded.

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/devstride/claude-plugin/update
Any agent
npx skills add devstride/claude-plugin --skill update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devstride/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 516 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 $0.00052 $0.00516
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured yesterday against content hash 8e33f2dbbf38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/latest-version.sh, scripts/update-plugin.py), 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.

skills/update/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Human output. Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/build-item/references/plain-language-output.md once per top-level run; composed skills reuse it. Apply it to every message.

This is a standalone user-authorized update, never a build-loop step. It may change the active user/project/local install. It may not change config, override a pin, guess between installs, remove/re-add a marketplace, or change an administrator-managed install.

Run exactly:

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/update/scripts/update-plugin.py" apply

The helper bypasses background-check caches and switches, finds the exact loaded copy, verifies the official tag and installed files, and checks disk again. Never substitute guessed commands or treat an exit code as proof.

Translate its one JSON result; never paste it raw:

  • updated/current plus safeToReload: true: four short lines — Running, Installed, Install, Result. Explain user scope as shared on this machine; project/local as this repo only. Keep the exact id and scope in parentheses.
  • blocked: explain the safety stop. Never bypass a pin, administrator boundary, duplicate, or missing repository binding.
  • failed: say which stage failed and that success is unproved. If manualInspectionRequired, give no mutation command: Claude cannot prove which copy is safe to change. If repairRequired, do not reload or invoke another DevStride skill; separately ask permission to preserve data and reinstall, run repairCommands only on yes, then rerun the helper. Otherwise give only retryCommand when present.

Only for updated/current with both safeToReload and reloadRequired true, finish: Run /reload-plugins before another DevStride command and confirm it reports no DevStride load error. If reload is unavailable or fails, restart Claude Code. Stop after this handoff.

The skill first exists in 3.1.0. Older copies need the README's two-command bootstrap once.

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. yesterday First seen · 42 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 8e33f2dbbf38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update is a skill published in the GitHub repository devstride/claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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