ss-upgrade

ss-upgrade is a skill for Claude Code from MartyBonacci/specswarm. It costs 25 tokens per session (579 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An upgrade workflow for changing software dependencies, frameworks, or runtimes while checking for breaking changes. Dependencies are external packages or tools that a project relies on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update packages, move between framework versions, migrate build tools, modernize a technology stack, or change a runtime version.
Why use it?
It helps reveal compatibility problems before an upgrade causes the project to stop building or behaving correctly.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the ss plugin — 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to update packages, move between framework versions, migrate build tools, modernize a technology stack, or change a runtime version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martybonacci/specswarm/ss-upgrade
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 MartyBonacci/specswarm --skill ss-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartyBonacci/specswarm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ss, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 579 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00025 $0.00579
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00290
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00058

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c3d090f249c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-upgrade 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 9d 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/ss/skills/ss-upgrade/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecSwarm Upgrade Workflow

Provides natural language access to /ss:upgrade command.

When to Invoke

Trigger this skill when the user mentions:

  • Upgrading or updating dependencies/packages
  • Migrating to new frameworks or versions
  • Modernizing technology stacks
  • Bumping version numbers

Examples:

  • "Upgrade React to version 19"
  • "Update all dependencies"
  • "Migrate from Webpack to Vite"
  • "Modernize the build system"
  • "Bump Node to version 20"

Instructions

Skill-Based Routing:

  1. Detect that user mentioned upgrading/updating software

  2. Extract what to upgrade from their message

  3. Route based on intent clarity:

    Clear intent - Execute directly:

    • Clear upgrade requests: "Upgrade React to version 19", "Update all dependencies", "Migrate from Webpack to Vite"
    • Action: Immediately run /ss:upgrade "upgrade description"

    Ambiguous intent - Ask for confirmation:

    • Less specific: "Update the packages", "Make it better"
    • Action: Use AskUserQuestion tool with two options:
      • Option 1 (label: "Run /ss:upgrade"): Use SpecSwarm's upgrade workflow with compatibility analysis
      • Option 2 (label: "Process normally"): Handle as regular Claude Code request
  4. If user selects Option 2, process normally without SpecSwarm

  5. After command completes, STOP - do not continue with ship/merge

What the Upgrade Command Does

/ss:upgrade runs complete workflow:

  • Analyzes breaking changes and compatibility
  • Creates comprehensive upgrade plan
  • Generates migration tasks
  • Updates dependencies and code
  • Runs tests to verify compatibility
  • Documents upgrade process

Stops after upgrade is complete - does NOT merge/ship/deploy.

Semantic Understanding

This skill should trigger not just on exact keywords, but semantic equivalents:

Upgrade equivalents: upgrade, update, migrate, modernize, bump, move to, switch to, adopt Target terms: dependency, package, framework, library, version, technology stack

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 9d ago First seen · 79 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 1c3d090f249c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ss-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartyBonacci/specswarm (65 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 579 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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