update

A skill that reinstalls or upgrades harness-kit files in the current project after a newer plugin version has been downloaded. Harness-kit is a collection of agent instructions, commands, scripts, and hooks for a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for updating harness-kit, backing up the existing settings file, reporting the version change, and reminding the user to restart the coding agent.
Why use it?
It applies the newer bundled version to the project and avoids accidentally reinstalling an older version before the agent reloads the plugin.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the harness-kit plugin — 14 skills, 17 commands, 4 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/pierry/harness-kit/update
Any agent
npx skills add Pierry/harness-kit --skill update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pierry/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install harness-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 17 commands, 4 agents, 4 hooks.

Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00035 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7548927967d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update 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 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.

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/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Upgrade harness-kit in user's project to version bundled in the installed plugin.

Plugin cache has no git remote, so newest source comes from the plugin itself. Order matters, the restart is not optional:

  1. /plugin update harness-kit fetches newer plugin into the cache.
  2. Restart Claude Code. Plugins load at startup; ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} only repoints to the new version after a restart.
  3. This skill re-lays the harness into the project.

Skip step 2 and this skill runs the OLD loaded update.sh, which re-lays the old version. update.sh now detects a newer-but-unloaded version sitting in the cache and stops with a restart reminder instead of downgrading.

Run

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/setup/update.sh" "${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}"

update.sh in plugin cache (no .git) lays down the loaded plugin version. It backs up existing .claude/settings.json and reports version delta via .claude/.hk-version. If output says a newer cache version exists, user skipped the restart, tell them to restart and rerun.

Relay output verbatim. Tell user to restart Claude Code after (so the newly-laid hooks/scripts load).

If /plugin update harness-kit reports up-to-date but a newer release exists, refresh the marketplace first: /plugin marketplace update harness-kit, then /plugin update harness-kit, restart, rerun this.

SessionStart hook (hk-update-check.sh) already warns when a newer release is on GitHub, so no manual polling. Notice names both commands (/plugin update harness-kit then /harness-kit:update). Cache .claude/.hk-update-check, disable via HK_UPDATE_CHECK=0.

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 · 30 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 7548927967d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pierry/harness-kit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 416 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 2026-08-31.

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