content-refresh-system

content-refresh-system is a skill for Claude Code from rampstackco/claude-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (5,210 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A program for reviewing and updating a library of published content over time. It decides which pieces to refresh, combine, remove, or leave alone as facts, search behavior, competitors, and business priorities change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps plan regular content audits, rank updates by importance, choose between refreshing, merging, and deleting pieces, and record those decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents useful articles from quietly losing traffic or becoming outdated, while avoiding wasted effort on unnecessary rewrites.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rampstack-skills plugin — 103 skills 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/rampstackco/claude-skills/content-refresh-system
Any agent
npx skills add rampstackco/claude-skills --skill content-refresh-system
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rampstackco/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rampstack-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 103 skills.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,210 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 5.1 $0.00140 $0.05210
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.02605
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00521

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1365bb8714e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

content-refresh-system 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 6d 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/content-refresh-system/SKILL.md · 262 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Content Refresh System

A senior editorial leader's playbook for systematic content refresh. The discipline that distinguishes intentional refresh programs from set-and-forget decay, and the prioritization framework that prevents both over-refresh (refresh-everything-on-calendar) and under-refresh (refresh-nothing-until-traffic-collapses).

Content decays. Search behavior shifts; SERP intent reshapes; facts go stale; competitors publish stronger pieces; the brand's own positioning evolves past what older pieces represent. Programs that ignore this reality watch traffic erode silently across the library. Programs that overreact (rewriting everything on calendar) burn editorial capacity that should be producing new flagship work. The discipline is in the middle: refresh what matters when signals say so, and document the decisions so the program is auditable.

This skill is the program-level refresh discipline across the whole content library. It builds on pillar-content-architecture's hub-level refresh consideration (refresh as ONE consideration in hub design) and editorial-qa's pre-publish quality gate (this skill is post-publish lifecycle, not pre-publish QA). Together those skills cover content quality at the moments quality decisions get made; this skill covers the moments between, when content is in the field and decaying or holding.

The voice is the senior editorial leader who has watched refresh programs fail in both directions and who has shipped the systems that produced durable refresh discipline.

When to use this skill: building a refresh program from scratch, auditing why refresh work is happening but traffic is not responding, designing the prioritization that keeps refresh tractable across a 200-piece or 2,000-piece library, or fixing a refresh program that is eating editorial capacity without clear results.


What this skill covers

This skill spans the post-publish lifecycle of content. The content suite distinction:

  • content-strategy is program scope: what to produce.
  • pillar-content-architecture is HUB scope; refresh appears as ONE consideration in hub design.
  • content-brief-authoring is per-piece scope at production time.
  • content-and-copy is execution scope at production time.
  • editorial-qa is gate scope: pre-publish verification.
  • content-refresh-system (this skill) is lifecycle scope: program-level refresh discipline across the whole content library, after pieces are in the field.

Read the full file on GitHub · 262 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 262 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 1365bb8714e2

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content-refresh-system is a skill published in the GitHub repository rampstackco/claude-skills (817 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 5,210 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.