speckit-upgrade

speckit-upgrade is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from racecraft-lab/racecraft-plugins-public. It costs 184 tokens per session (2,702 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An upgrade workflow for an existing SpecKit installation. It updates the repository setup while preserving selected local changes and handling a migration from slash commands to skills.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upgrade SpecKit files in a repository, update Claude Code or Codex integration, and preserve the project constitution and other local edits.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of losing local configuration or breaking the project while moving to a newer SpecKit setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: Claude Code plugin machinery, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the speckit-pro plugin — 12 skills, 14 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to upgrade SpecKit files in a repository, update Claude Code or Codex integration, and preserve the project constitution and other local edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/racecraft-lab/racecraft-plugins-public/speckit-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 racecraft-lab/racecraft-plugins-public --skill speckit-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/racecraft-lab/racecraft-plugins-public

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install speckit-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 14 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 184 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,702 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 $0.00184 $0.02702
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01351
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00540
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00270

Measured yesterday against content hash 73845e698c06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

speckit-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 yesterday.

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.

speckit-pro/codex-skills/speckit-upgrade/SKILL.md · 289 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 289 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SpecKit Upgrade

Scope

Upgrade an existing SpecKit installation in the current repository safely. Preserves .specify/memory/constitution.md and any other locally-modified files via backup-then-force-then-restore. Supports upgrading one or both integrations (claude, codex).

If .specify/ is missing, hands off to $speckit-install — upgrade only operates on existing installs.

This skill is mutation-heavy (it modifies files in .specify/, .claude/, .codex/, and writes backups to /tmp/). It runs only on explicit operator request and never auto-fires from other skills.

Scope Boundaries — Not For

  • Initial install (no .specify/ directory yet). That is $speckit-install. This skill hands off to it automatically.
  • Scaffolding a new spec from the technical roadmap. That is $speckit-scaffold-spec.
  • Installing this plugin's own bundled Codex subagent TOML files into ~/.codex/agents/. That is $install.
  • Upgrading the SpecKit CLI binary itself (specify package). The operator runs that with uv tool install --force — this skill detects when it's out of date and recommends the command, but does not run it for them.

Repository Structure Migration Guidance

For existing projects, after integration upgrade and verification, report that repository structure migration is not available through the current runner. The migrate-structure operation has promotion_status=deferred and no authoritative request. Neither dry_run nor apply is an operator contract; do not invoke the operation or claim that it will report or mutate repository state.

Record the deferred capability gap and leave repository structure unchanged. Tier-2 PROCESS relocation is separate, but relocate-process-artifacts is also deferred and unavailable. Do not recommend or auto-run either operation.

Input

Accept optional integration keys as arguments:

  • $speckit-upgrade (upgrade all installed integrations interactively)
  • $speckit-upgrade claude
  • $speckit-upgrade codex
  • $speckit-upgrade claude codex

Read the full file on GitHub · 289 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday Changed · -32 lines · -15 tokens per session 73845e698c06
  2. 7d ago First seen · 321 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A 23de6e1a5701

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speckit-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository racecraft-lab/racecraft-plugins-public (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 184 tokens to every session and 2,702 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-09-04.

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