project-update

A project-configuration updater for HCF, a tool that coordinates autonomous development work. It brings an already configured project in line with newer HCF defaults.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after updating HCF to add missing configuration files, generate required files, and identify changes to review. The project must already have been set up with project-setup.
Why use it?
It avoids manually checking which configuration files have been added or changed after an HCF update. Existing files are not overwritten; differences are flagged.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hcf plugin — 4 skills, 3 agents, 3 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/markshust/hcf/project-update
Any agent
npx skills add markshust/hcf --skill project-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markshust/hcf

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hcf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 3 agents, 3 hooks.

Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,382 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00033 $0.05382
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.02691
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00538

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1185b730df7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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 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/project-update/SKILL.md · 270 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sync a project's HCF configuration with the latest plugin defaults. Non-destructive — adds missing files, generates what's needed, and flags differences in existing ones.

Prerequisites

This skill requires that /project-setup has been run at least once. If CLAUDE.md and .claude/ don't exist, tell the user to run /project-setup first and stop.

Execution Steps

Step 1: Verify Project Is Configured

Check that the project has been set up:

ls CLAUDE.md .claude/ 2>/dev/null

If either is missing, stop and tell the user:

This project hasn't been set up yet. Run /project-setup first.

Step 2: Inventory Expected Files

These are the files that project-setup creates. Check which exist:

File Source
CLAUDE.md Generated from project context
.claude/testing.md Generated from project context
.claude/code-standards.md Generated from project context
.claude/architecture.md Generated from project context

.claude/pipeline.md is legacy and is no longer an expected ongoing file. HCF now enrolls agents via frontmatter (see HOOKS.md). If a .claude/pipeline.md exists, it is handled by the one-time migration in Step 3 — do not treat its absence as a missing file.

Collect the list of missing files. Do NOT act on them yet — just note them.

Step 3: Migrate Legacy pipeline.md to Frontmatter

This is a one-time migration from the legacy central registry (.claude/pipeline.md) to per-agent frontmatter enrollment (the model described in HOOKS.md). This step detects what needs to happen here; the actual changes are applied in Step 6 after a single confirmation.

3a. Detect the legacy file

Check whether .claude/pipeline.md exists:

ls .claude/pipeline.md 2>/dev/null
  • Absent → the project is already on the frontmatter model. Record migration status as "no legacy pipeline.md — already on frontmatter" and skip the rest of Step 3 entirely. There is nothing to migrate.
  • Present → continue to 3b.

Read the full file on GitHub · 270 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 First seen · 270 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 1185b730df7a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

project-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository markshust/hcf (67 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 5,382 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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