tauri-updater

tauri-updater is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from luochang212/skill-zoo. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,765 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for adding automatic updates to a Tauri 2 desktop app. Tauri is a framework for building desktop apps with web technologies, and the instructions cover signed updates delivered through GitHub Releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to add update checks and installation for macOS DMG and Windows NSIS builds, or a release-page download link for Windows portable builds.
Why use it?
They explain how update behavior differs between installable builds and portable Windows files, which cannot update in the same way.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use them to add update checks and installation for macOS DMG and Windows NSIS builds, or a release-page download link for Windows portable builds.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/luochang212/skill-zoo/tauri-updater
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 luochang212/skill-zoo --skill tauri-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/luochang212/skill-zoo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,765 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Rogue Agent · line 10
    Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.
    Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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 $0.00053 $0.02765
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.01106
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00553
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00277

Measured 3d ago against content hash d40e9b79a9f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tauri-updater 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 3d 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/tauri-updater/SKILL.md · 314 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 314 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tauri Updater

Overview

Add self-update to a Tauri 2 desktop app using tauri-plugin-updater. Covers macOS DMG, Windows NSIS (auto-install), and Windows portable (manual download link). Uses a GitHub Releases-hosted latest.json manifest with signed artifacts.

When to Use

  • User asks to add "auto-update", "software update", "check for updates" to a Tauri app
  • User asks about tauri-plugin-updater integration
  • User wants to distinguish installer vs portable builds for update behavior
  • User needs to generate update manifests for CI

Don't use for:

  • Tauri 1.x apps (different updater API)
  • Mobile apps (different update mechanisms)
  • Apps distributed only via app stores (use store update mechanisms)

Architecture

Installer vs Portable

Tauri updater only works with installers (NSIS, MSI, DMG). Portable builds need a different path.

Build Update method Implementation
macOS DMG Auto-download + install tauri-plugin-updater full flow
Windows NSIS Auto-download + install tauri-plugin-updater full flow
Windows Portable Link to GitHub Releases Button opens releases page

Detecting portable at runtime: Use a Cargo feature flag:

# Cargo.toml
[features]
portable = []
// Rust command
#[tauri::command]
pub fn is_portable_build() -> bool {
    cfg!(feature = "portable")
}

Normal build: cargo build --release Portable build: cargo build --release --features portable

In lib.rs, conditionally register the updater plugin and skip it when the portable feature is active:

#[cfg(all(desktop, not(feature = "portable")))]
app.handle()
    .plugin(tauri_plugin_updater::Builder::new().build())
    .expect("Failed to register updater plugin");

When is_portable_build() returns true, the frontend shows a GitHub Releases link instead of the auto-update flow.

Implementation Steps

1. Generate Signing Key (one-time)

bun tauri signer generate -w ~/.tauri/<app-name>.key

Read the full file on GitHub · 314 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. 3d ago Changed d40e9b79a9f6
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 314 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A a5a3a0b9fc31

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tauri-updater is a skill published in the GitHub repository luochang212/skill-zoo (123 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,765 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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