check-spm-updates

check-spm-updates is a skill for Claude Code from LaStrada/claude. It costs 119 tokens per session (7,787 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding outdated Swift Package Manager dependencies in an iOS project managed by Xcode. Swift Package Manager is Apple's system for adding reusable code packages to projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check available package updates, apply chosen changes, optionally build the app to verify them, and open a pull request with the update details.
Why use it?
It identifies packages that can be updated and can apply selected updates even when the project's package versions are stored inside an Xcode project file.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ios-spm plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to check available package updates, apply chosen changes, optionally build the app to verify them, and open a pull request with the update details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lastrada/claude/check-spm-updates
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 LaStrada/claude --skill check-spm-updates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LaStrada/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ios-spm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,787 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 $0.00119 $0.07787
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.03893
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01557
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00779

Measured 8d ago against content hash 56183eea0735, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-spm-updates 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 8d 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/ios-spm/skills/check-spm-updates/SKILL.md · 591 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 591 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

check-spm-updates

End-to-end SPM dependency update flow for Xcode-managed projects:

  1. Phase 1 — Discover (default, read-only): find outdated direct/transitive packages.
  2. Phase 2 — Apply (opt-in): edit project.pbxproj for picks, run xcodebuild -resolvePackageDependencies to refresh Package.resolved + transitive deps.
  3. Phase 3 — Verify build (optional): run xcodebuild build to confirm the project still compiles, then re-diff Package.resolved to catch any further auto-resolve the build triggered.
  4. Phase 4 — Open PR (opt-in, after Phase 2): commit + push + open a PR with a changelog summary per package, compare links, and collapsible release notes.

Why this skill exists: Renovate doesn't natively manage SPM dependencies declared in .xcodeproj bundles (renovatebot/renovate#9735), and xcodebuild -resolvePackageDependencies alone respects existing pins (Swift Forums #55545). The pbxproj edit + rm Package.resolved + resolve dance is the only reliable path.

When this applies

Trigger phrases (not exhaustive):

Phase 1 (discover):

  • "check SPM updates"
  • "what iOS packages can be bumped"
  • "any SPM packages outdated"
  • "look at Package.resolved updates"
  • "find Swift package updates"

Phase 2 (apply):

  • "apply" / "do it" / "update them" (after Phase 1 report is on screen)
  • "bump to X.Y.Z" (specific package + version)
  • "update all the auto-resolvable ones"

Phase 3 (build verify, optional):

  • "verify the build first" / "build to check" / "make sure it compiles"

Phase 4 (open PR):

  • "open the PR" / "file the PR" / "create a PR"
  • "apply and open PR" (chains 2 → 4)

Bug-driven investigation (special, opt-in — never recommends an update):

  • "we have a bug in <package>, is there a fix / newer version?"
  • "does updating <package> fix <X>?"
  • "check <package> for a fix" (with a described bug)

Read the full file on GitHub · 591 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. 8d ago First seen · 591 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 56183eea0735

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check-spm-updates is a skill published in the GitHub repository LaStrada/claude (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 7,787 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 2026-08-31.

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