update-readme

update-readme is a skill for Claude Code from GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools. It costs 190 tokens per session (2,562 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A README maintenance skill that compares a project's documentation with its current codebase. A README is the main guide explaining a project's purpose, setup, usage, and interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit, create, or update README.md files, including selected sections, while preserving the document's existing style.
Why use it?
It helps expose outdated, missing, or incorrect documentation after the project changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the meta-toolkit plugin — 2 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit, create, or update README.md files, including selected sections, while preserving the document's existing style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme
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 GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools --skill update-readme
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install meta-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command.

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 update-readme

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for update-readme

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/googilyboogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools/update-readme.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 190 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,562 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 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 5.1 $0.00190 $0.02562
Opus 5 $0.00095 $0.01281
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00256

Measured 9d ago against content hash e71de762f4ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-readme 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 9d 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/meta-toolkit/skills/update-readme/SKILL.md · 215 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 215 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update README

Update a project's README.md by exploring the project in parallel and comparing what the README says against what the project actually is. Add what's missing, remove what's gone, update what's changed — and preserve the README's existing voice and structure throughout.

Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for:

  • Path (positional, optional): Path to the README file. Default: ./README.md
  • --dry-run: Show the discrepancy report without applying any changes
  • --section <name>: Only analyze and update a specific section (matched by heading text, case-insensitive)

Phase 1: Read & Analyze the Existing README

  1. Check if the README file exists at the resolved path.

    • If it does not exist: Set a CREATE_MODE flag and skip ahead to Phase 2. You'll create a README from scratch based on exploration findings.
    • If it exists: Read the full file and continue with analysis.
  2. Extract the section inventory — every heading (H1, H2, H3) with its line range. This is your map of what the README covers.

  3. Extract the style fingerprint so you can match it later:

    • Heading style: # markers vs underlines
    • List style: - vs * vs 1.
    • Code blocks: fenced with language annotations, or indented?
    • Badges/shields: present? What format?
    • Emoji usage: frequent, rare, or none?
    • Tone: formal, casual, technical?
    • Person: "you" (second), "we" (first plural), or impersonal?
  4. Extract factual claims — these are the things that can drift:

    • Version numbers
    • File/directory counts or lists
    • Command names and usage examples
    • Dependency names
    • URLs and links
    • Platform/environment requirements
    • Install and setup instructions

Hold all of this in memory. You'll compare it against reality in Phase 3.

Phase 2: Parallel Project Exploration

Dispatch three Agent calls in a single message (Explore subagent type). Each agent has a focused area so they don't duplicate work.

Agent 1 — Structure & Identity

Read the full file on GitHub · 215 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. 9d ago First seen · 215 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A e71de762f4ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-readme is a skill published in the GitHub repository GoogilyBoogily/googilyboogily-claude-power-tools (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 2,562 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-09-03.

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