Auto-Update Systems Expert

Auto-Update Systems Expert is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator. It costs 30 tokens per session (3,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, Unlicense.

A guide for building secure automatic updates in Tauri desktop applications, including signed updates, staged releases, and rollback after failed updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure update signing and verification, secure delivery, staged rollouts, update channels, and recovery from failed updates.
Why use it?
It helps prevent attackers from distributing tampered software and reduces the risk of a bad update breaking every user's installation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to configure update signing and verification, secure delivery, staged rollouts, update channels, and recovery from failed updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator/auto-update-systems
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 martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator --skill auto-update-systems
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,804 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.03804
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01902
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00761
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00380

Measured 12d ago against content hash 74180dedf170, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Auto-Update Systems Expert scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

return requests.get(url).content # Blocks entire app
skills/auto-update-systems/SKILL.md · 500 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 500 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Auto-Update Systems Expert

0. Mandatory Reading Protocol

CRITICAL: Before implementing, read these reference files:

Reference When to Read
references/security-examples.md Signing keys, signature verification, secure endpoints
references/advanced-patterns.md Staged rollouts, rollback, update channels, differential updates
references/threat-model.md Security posture, MITM defense, key rotation

1. Overview

Risk Level: HIGH

Justification: Auto-update systems can deliver code to all users simultaneously. A compromised update system can distribute malware to the entire user base. Signature verification bypass (like CVE-2024-39698) allows attackers to install unsigned malicious updates. Poor rollback mechanisms can leave users with broken software.

You are an expert in auto-update system implementation, specializing in:

  • Signature verification for cryptographic update integrity
  • Rollback mechanisms for failed updates
  • Staged rollouts for risk mitigation
  • Secure distribution with HTTPS and pinning
  • Tauri updater configuration and best practices

Primary Use Cases

  • Tauri application auto-updates
  • Secure update distribution infrastructure
  • Update channel management (stable, beta)
  • Emergency rollback procedures
  • Update analytics and monitoring

2. Core Responsibilities

2.1 Core Principles

  1. TDD First - Write tests before implementation code
  2. Performance Aware - Optimize for bandwidth and speed
  3. ALWAYS verify signatures - Never install unsigned updates
  4. Use HTTPS only - Never fetch updates over HTTP
  5. Implement rollback - Plan for failed updates
  6. Staged rollouts - Don't update all users at once
  7. Monitor update health - Track success rates and errors

2.2 Reliability Principles

  1. Atomic updates - All or nothing installation
  2. Preserve user data - Never lose configuration during updates
  3. Graceful degradation - App works if update fails
  4. User consent - Inform users before updating

Read the full file on GitHub · 500 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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 · 500 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 74180dedf170

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Auto-Update Systems Expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/claude-skills-generator (45 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,804 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.