skills-update

skills-update is a skill for Claude Code from idan-yaron/claude-cowork-skills-toolkit. It costs 97 tokens per session (3,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for refreshing plugins that were previously loaded from GitHub. It fetches their source repositories again, checks for changes, and prepares updated plugin files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update loaded skills, check for updates, or sync plugins created by the skills toolkit.
Why use it?
It avoids manually finding, rebuilding, and replacing each installed plugin when its GitHub source changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the skills-toolkit plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to update loaded skills, check for updates, or sync plugins created by the skills toolkit.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add idan-yaron/claude-cowork-skills-toolkit
Claude Code
/plugin install skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,538 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 $0.00097 $0.03538
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01769
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00708
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00354

Measured 12d ago against content hash f3207f8efd9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skills-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/discover-installed-plugins.sh, scripts/discover-skills.sh, scripts/fetch-repo.sh), 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/skills-update/SKILL.md · 366 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 366 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Skills from GitHub

Re-fetch the GitHub sources for plugins previously installed by skills-toolkit, detect what changed, and rebuild each plugin with fresh content. Cowork's "Save plugin" flow replaces each installed plugin in-place.

How it works

Every .plugin that /skills-load builds embeds its source URL in plugin.json.repository and tags itself with "skills-toolkit" in keywords. This command scans all installed plugins for that marker, reads the repository URL, re-clones, diffs each SKILL.md by SHA256, and rebuilds the plugin with the same name — so Save plugin replaces the installed version.

Because the source URL lives inside the installed plugin itself, updates work across session restarts, VM reboots, and conversation compaction. No /skills-load rerun needed.

VM constraints

  • Bash runs in an isolated Linux VM — use for discovery, cloning, and ZIP building.
  • Write tool bridges to the HOST filesystem.
  • Host paths like ~/AppData/... don't exist inside the VM.

Step 1: Discover installed skills-toolkit plugins

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/skills-update/scripts/discover-installed-plugins.sh"

Returns JSON array of {pluginName, repository, pluginRoot, manifestPath, keywords, skills: [{name, path, currentSha}]}.

If empty:

No skills-toolkit plugins found.

Run /skills-load <github-url> to install skills first, then come back here to refresh them.

Then stop.

Step 2: Filter by arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

  • Empty or --all → keep all discovered plugins and skills
  • Skill names (space or comma separated) → filter each plugin's skills[] to entries where name matches. Drop plugins with no matching skills.

If filter matches nothing: "No skills matched {args}. Found: {list of names}."

Step 3: Report the plan

Found {M} skills-toolkit plugins with {N} skills total. Re-fetching GitHub sources to check for updates…

Step 4: Re-fetch each unique source

Collect unique (repository, source.branch) pairs across all plugins — different branches of the same repo need separate fetches. For each unique pair, clone once and cache by that pair:

Read the full file on GitHub · 366 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 12d ago First seen · 366 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A f3207f8efd9b

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skills-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository idan-yaron/claude-cowork-skills-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 3,538 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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