skill-update

skill-update is a skill for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for planning and applying changes to an existing coding-agent skill, including validation after edits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a skill review, or when you have clear improvements to apply to one or more SKILL.md files.
Why use it?
It turns review findings into specific edits and checks that the updated skill still passes lint and frontmatter checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 56 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after a skill review, or when you have clear improvements to apply to one or more SKILL.md files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/skill-update
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 ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill skill-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills.

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 skill-update

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/skill-update.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/skill-update)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/skill-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/skill-update.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,712 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 $0.00113 $0.01712
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00856
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00171

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2079bc63b682, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 7d 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.

skills/meta/skill-update/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Update

Plan and apply changes to an existing skill in a single walk-through. Consumes a review report (or inline findings), drafts one edit per bullet with the agent's recommended answer attached, walks the edits one at a time, applies them, and re-validates the skill.

When to Use

  • A skill-review report exists and the user wants next steps
  • The user said something like "apply the review", "ship the recommendations", "fix this skill"
  • A short list of fixes is in the chat and the user wants them applied with confirmation
  • Simple direct edits where planning and applying is one motion, not two

If there is no review yet, run skill-review first and come back.

Inputs

  • Review source — a skill-review report (single-skill or --scope=all), or inline findings from chat
  • Target skill(s) — SKILL.md path(s) to edit
  • Scope (optional) — priority levels to walk ("just P0", "P0 and P1", "all")

Process

Step 1: Parse the Feedback

Read every report and note provided. Extract:

  • Each issue with its severity, affected skill, file, and dimension
  • Each recommendation
  • Trigger-testing results and coverage gaps from skill-review

Deduplicate — if the same issue surfaces from both a bulk pass and a deep-dive review, merge them. Group by category:

Category Examples
Frontmatter fixes Missing fields, wrong types, bad version
Description rewrites Vague triggers, missing keywords, too long/short
Content restructuring Body too long, needs reference extraction, missing sections
Instruction improvements Ambiguous steps, missing rationale, wrong voice
Ownership fixes Overlaps, stale composes_with, missing declarations
New content Missing reference files, examples, checklists
Deletions Duplicate content, orphan files, dead links

Step 2: Draft the Edit Plan

Produce a one-bullet-per-edit list. Each bullet carries an explicit recommended answer so the user can accept by nodding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 156 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 2079bc63b682

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,712 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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