update-skill

update-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from opencue/cuecards. It costs 69 tokens per session (468 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A skill that updates an installed coding-agent skill by comparing its local version with the latest version in an online repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking installed metadata, comparing versions, and updating a skill through the skills command-line tool or a manual repository copy.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to detect outdated skills and replace them with the current upstream copy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It is for checking installed metadata, comparing versions, and updating a skill through the skills command-line tool or a manual repository copy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencue/cuecards/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 opencue/cuecards --skill update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 468 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00069 $0.00468
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00234
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash a909c130bfc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

update-skill scanned grade C with 2 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 2d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf /tmp/agent-skills

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/promptingcompany/agent-skills/main/skills/<skill-name>/metadata.json
.agents/skills/skills-admin/workflows/update-skill.md · 81 lines

What it actually says

Update an Installed Skill

Overview

Check whether an installed skill is out of date and update it to the latest version.

Prerequisites

  • Skill previously installed to ~/.claude/skills/ or via npx skills add
  • Internet access to fetch the latest version from upstream

Required Workflow

Follow all steps in order.


Step 1 — Check installed version

Read the metadata.json of the installed skill:

cat ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/metadata.json

Note the version field.


Step 2 — Check upstream version

Fetch the latest metadata.json directly from the repo:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/promptingcompany/agent-skills/main/skills/<skill-name>/metadata.json

Compare the version fields. If they match, tell the user: "Your skill is already up to date (v[version])." and stop.


Step 3 — Update

Option A — via the skills CLI (recommended):

npx skills add https://github.com/promptingcompany/agent-skills --skill <skill-name>

This overwrites the local copy with the latest version.

Option B — manual:

git clone https://github.com/promptingcompany/agent-skills /tmp/agent-skills
cp -r /tmp/agent-skills/skills/<skill-name> ~/.claude/skills/
rm -rf /tmp/agent-skills

Step 4 — Confirm

Re-read the installed metadata.json and confirm the version now matches upstream:

cat ~/.claude/skills/<skill-name>/metadata.json

Tell the user: "Updated to v[new-version]."

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. 2d ago First seen · 81 lines · 69 tokens per session scan C a909c130bfc9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 468 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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