reviewing-update-sets

reviewing-update-sets is a skill for Claude Code from jschuller/mcp-server-servicenow. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review tool for ServiceNow update sets, which are bundles of platform configuration and code changes moved between environments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing and comparing update sets, examining their changes, categorizing risks, and checking items such as permissions, scripts, and schema changes.
Why use it?
It helps teams see what will change before promotion, including risks, dependencies, and conflicts. This reduces surprises when changes move toward deployment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the servicenow plugin — 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Listing and comparing update sets, examining their changes, categorizing risks, and checking items such as permissions, scripts, and schema changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jschuller/mcp-server-servicenow/reviewing-update-sets
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 jschuller/mcp-server-servicenow --skill reviewing-update-sets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jschuller/mcp-server-servicenow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install servicenow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 4 commands, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,193 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00077 $0.01193
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00119

Measured 12d ago against content hash ae46c9be7ad1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewing-update-sets 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.

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/reviewing-update-sets/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewing ServiceNow Update Sets

Review, analyze, and compare update sets before promotion. See references/update-set-fields.md for update types, risk categories, and pre-promotion checklist fields.

Workflows

1. List & Summarize Update Sets

Get an overview of update sets by state with change counts.

Progress checklist (copy into your response):

- [ ] List update sets by state
- [ ] Get change counts for each
- [ ] Summarize by developer and state
  1. List update sets by state:
    list_update_sets(state="in progress", limit=20)
    list_update_sets(state="complete", limit=20)
    
  2. For each update set, get the change count:
    list_update_set_changes(update_set_sys_id="<sys_id>", limit=1)
    
  3. Summarize: name, state, developer, change count, last modified date.

2. Deep Review a Single Update Set

Examine all changes in an update set, categorize by type, and flag risks.

Progress checklist:

- [ ] Get update set details
- [ ] List all customer updates
- [ ] Categorize changes by type
- [ ] Flag risky changes (ACLs, script includes, schema changes)
- [ ] Summarize findings with risk assessment
  1. Get the update set details:
    get_update_set(sys_id="<update_set_sys_id>")
    
  2. List all customer updates in the set:
    list_update_set_changes(update_set_sys_id="<update_set_sys_id>", limit=100)
    
  3. Categorize each change by type (business rule, client script, UI policy, ACL, etc.).
  4. Flag risky changes — see references/update-set-fields.md for risk categories:
    • ACL modifications (security impact)
    • Script Includes (shared library changes)
    • Table/Column schema changes (data model impact)
    • System Properties (global configuration)
    • Scheduled Jobs (background automation)
  5. Present a summary: total changes, breakdown by type, risk flags with explanations.

3. Compare Two Update Sets

Find overlapping records and potential conflicts between two update sets.

Progress checklist:

- [ ] Get changes for update set A
- [ ] Get changes for update set B
- [ ] Find overlapping records (same target name/table)
- [ ] Identify potential conflicts
- [ ] Report overlap and conflict details

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 129 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A ae46c9be7ad1

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reviewing-update-sets is a skill published in the GitHub repository jschuller/mcp-server-servicenow (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,193 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.