update-installed-skills

update-installed-skills is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills. It costs 31 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for updating skills that are already installed in an agent environment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list installed skills, check for updates, preview a sync, and then update one skill or review a bulk update.
Why use it?
It helps reveal breaking changes and protects local customizations before an update overwrites them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to list installed skills, check for updates, preview a sync, and then update one skill or review a bulk update.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills/update-installed-skills
About the project

AI Agent Skills is a curated library and package manager for installing, organizing, and creating skills for compatible AI coding agents. It is for developers who want to manage reusable agent instructions through a command-line or terminal interface. The catalogue skills and agents are examples of the kind of add-ons it helps manage.

MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills · 1,134 stars · on GitHub · npmjs.com

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 MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills --skill update-installed-skills
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 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: 6 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 17
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 26
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 32
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 38
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 44
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 50
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00031 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 13d ago against content hash 7fabdb1568bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-installed-skills 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 13d 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/update-installed-skills/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Update Installed Skills

Goal

Keep installed skills current without breaking the agent's workflow or silently overwriting local customizations.

Guardrails

  • Always use --dry-run before running a real update.
  • Check what is currently installed before updating: npx ai-agent-skills list --installed.
  • Never update all skills at once in production without reviewing the dry-run output.
  • Use --format json to capture structured update results for logging.

Workflow

  1. List currently installed skills.
npx ai-agent-skills list --installed --format json --fields name
  1. Check for available updates.
npx ai-agent-skills check
  1. Dry-run the update.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name> --dry-run
  1. Apply the update after reviewing.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name>
  1. For bulk updates, review each skill's dry-run output.
npx ai-agent-skills sync --all --dry-run

Gotchas

  • Skills installed from GitHub will attempt a fresh clone during sync. If the upstream repo is gone, the update will fail gracefully.
  • Manually edited SKILL.md files will be overwritten by sync. Back up customizations before syncing.
  • The check command makes network requests to verify upstream sources. It may be slow or fail if sources are unreachable.
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. 13d ago First seen · 58 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7fabdb1568bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-installed-skills is a skill published in the GitHub repository MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills (1,134 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 356 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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