ppw:update

ppw:update is a skill for Claude Code from Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,382 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A synchronisation tool for updating local writing skills and reference files from a GitHub repository. GitHub is a service for storing and sharing code and related files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to keep the local Paper Polish Workflow skills and references up to date.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of downloading files, comparing versions, and replacing changed local copies. It can run directly or show changes for confirmation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the paper-polish-workflow plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to keep the local Paper Polish Workflow skills and references up to date.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-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 Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill --skill ppw-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-polish-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 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 ppw:update

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ppw:update

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-update"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lylll9436/paper-polish-workflow-skill/ppw-update.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,382 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 $0.00030 $0.01382
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00138

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0dd693769767, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ppw: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 10d 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/ppw-update/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This Skill syncs local .claude/skills/ and references/ from the upstream GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill. It downloads the latest SKILL.md files and reference documents, compares them with local versions, and updates any changed files.

Trigger

Activates when the user asks to:

  • Update or sync skills from the remote repo
  • 更新或同步技能包

Example invocations:

  • "update skills"
  • "sync skills from GitHub"
  • "更新技能"

Modes

Mode Default Behavior
direct Yes Fetch, compare, update, report — no intermediate confirmation
interactive Show diff summary before applying each update

Default mode: direct

Workflow

Step 0: Workflow Memory Check

  • Read .planning/workflow-memory.json. If file missing or empty, skip to Step 1.
  • Check if the last 1-2 log entries form a recognized pattern with ppw:update that has appeared >= threshold times in the log. See skill-conventions.md > Workflow Memory > Pattern Detection for the full algorithm.
  • If a pattern is found, present recommendation via AskUserQuestion:
    • Question: "检测到常用流程:[pattern](已出现 N 次)。是否直接以 direct 模式运行 ppw:update?"
    • Options: "Yes, proceed" / "No, continue normally"
  • If user accepts: set mode to direct, skip Ask Strategy questions.
  • If user declines or AskUserQuestion unavailable: continue in normal mode.

Step 1: Pre-flight Check

  • Verify gh CLI is available and authenticated: gh auth status
  • Verify the upstream repo is accessible: gh api repos/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill --jq '.full_name'
  • If either check fails, report the error and stop.
  • Record workflow: Append {"skill": "ppw:update", "ts": "<ISO timestamp>"} to .planning/workflow-memory.json. Create file as [] if missing. Drop oldest entry if log length >= 50.

Step 2: Fetch Remote File Index

  • List all skill directories from the remote repo:
    gh api repos/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill/contents/.claude/skills --jq '.[].name'
    
  • List all reference files from the remote repo:
    gh api repos/Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill/contents/references --jq '.[] | .name + " " + .type'
    
  • For reference subdirectories (type=dir), also list their contents recursively.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 10d ago First seen · 157 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 0dd693769767

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ppw:update is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lylll9436/Paper-Polish-Workflow-skill (386 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,382 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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