update-linter-version

update-linter-version is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oxsecurity/megalinter. It costs 29 tokens per session (388 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A procedure for changing the fixed version of a linter tool in its YAML descriptor. A linter checks source code for errors and style problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when upgrading a linter to a newer release by changing its pinned version.
Why use it?
It keeps the version change focused on the descriptor file and makes the intended upgrade clear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the megalinter plugin — 26 skills, 15 agents shipped together

About the project

MegaLinter is a repository analysis tool that runs linters and related checks across source code, infrastructure-as-code, configuration, scripts, formats, spelling, copy-pastes, and security issues. It is for teams that want automated quality checks in GitHub Actions, other CI systems, or local development. The catalogue add-ons help coding agents use and configure MegaLinter and respond to its findings.

oxsecurity/megalinter · 2,577 stars · on GitHub

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/oxsecurity/megalinter/update-linter-version
Any agent
npx skills add oxsecurity/megalinter --skill update-linter-version
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oxsecurity/megalinter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install megalinter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 15 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for update-linter-version

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oxsecurity/megalinter/update-linter-version"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oxsecurity/megalinter/update-linter-version.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 388 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00029 $0.00388
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00194
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash a7a786fc76db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-linter-version 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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/update-linter-version/SKILL.md · 29 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A a7a786fc76db

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update-linter-version is a skill published in the GitHub repository oxsecurity/megalinter (2,577 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 388 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.