ce:update

ce:update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Jerrylalala/compound-engineering. It costs 62 tokens per session (999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A version-checking tool for the Compound Engineering plugin, which is a software add-on for development workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Comparing installed and upstream versions and giving the update command when the local plugin is behind; it supports Claude Code marketplace installations.
Why use it?
It tells you whether the locally loaded plugin matches the current public repository version and avoids relying on an outdated cache.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-update
Any agent
npx skills add Jerrylalala/compound-engineering --skill ce-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jerrylalala/compound-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 78 skills, 4 commands, 2 hooks.

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 ce:update

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-update.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-update)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jerrylalala/compound-engineering/ce-update.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 999 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00062 $0.00999
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00100

Measured 4d ago against content hash 318c3db6c722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ce:update scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/currently-loaded-version.sh, scripts/marketplace-name.sh, scripts/upstream-version.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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

access, `gh`, `curl`, Python, or Node may be unavailable) and stop.
plugins/compound-engineering/skills/ce-update/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Check Plugin Version

Verify the installed compound-engineering plugin version matches the public repository plugin.json on main, and recommend the update command if it doesn't. Claude Code only.

The public repository version comes from plugins/compound-engineering/.claude-plugin/plugin.json on main rather than the latest GitHub release tag, because the marketplace installs plugin contents from main HEAD. Comparing against release tags false-positives whenever main is ahead of the last tag (the normal state between releases).

Step 1: Probe versions

Run these three scripts in parallel via the Bash tool. Each prints a single line of output; capture the values for the decision logic below. Use ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} so the path resolves correctly in both claude --plugin-dir local-development sessions and standard marketplace-cached installs.

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/upstream-version.sh"
bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/currently-loaded-version.sh"
bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/marketplace-name.sh"

scripts/upstream-version.sh reads plugin.json on main via gh api, then falls back to the GitHub Contents API when gh is unavailable in the shell PATH. It avoids raw.githubusercontent.com because the raw CDN can briefly serve stale content immediately after release automation updates main. It prints the version string, or the sentinel __CE_UPDATE_VERSION_FAILED__ if the public repository version cannot be fetched or parsed.

scripts/currently-loaded-version.sh and scripts/marketplace-name.sh parse ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} against the marketplace-cache layout ~/.claude/plugins/cache/<marketplace>/compound-engineering/<version>/skills/ce-update. They print the version segment / marketplace segment, or the sentinel __CE_UPDATE_NOT_MARKETPLACE__ if the path doesn't match (typical for claude --plugin-dir local development).

Step 2: Apply decision logic

Handle failure cases

If scripts/upstream-version.sh printed __CE_UPDATE_VERSION_FAILED__: tell the user the public repository version could not be fetched or parsed (network access, gh, curl, Python, or Node may be unavailable) and stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 4d ago First seen · 97 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 318c3db6c722

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ce:update is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jerrylalala/compound-engineering (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 999 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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