rhdh-backstage-upgrade

rhdh-backstage-upgrade is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhat-developer/rhdh-skills. It costs 166 tokens per session (1,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for upgrading the Backstage dependencies used by a plugin, workspace, or app to a chosen release supported by Red Hat Developer Hub. Backstage is the open-source framework on which Developer Hub is built.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect current versions, choose a compatible target, update dependencies, migrate imports, fix breaking changes, and verify the result.
Why use it?
It helps keep related packages aligned and provides a way to handle renamed packages and changes that break older code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the plugins plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect current versions, choose a compatible target, update dependencies, migrate imports, fix breaking changes, and verify the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills/rhdh-backstage-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 redhat-developer/rhdh-skills --skill rhdh-backstage-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhat-developer/rhdh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install plugins, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,040 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.
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 $0.00166 $0.01040
Opus 5 $0.00083 $0.00520
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00104

Measured 6d ago against content hash 1865e4c788e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rhdh-backstage-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 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/plugins/rhdh-backstage-upgrade/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

RHDH Backstage Upgrade

Own version numbers. Which @backstage/* release a checkout sits on, which release it should move to, and everything that breaks in between.

Start here

  1. Read package.json and backstage.json before changing any dependency.
  2. Establish the target RHDH version. Prefer an explicit user or repository value; otherwise invoke /rhdh-context for the checked-in compatibility matrix. If it is unavailable, ask the user for the target RHDH and Backstage versions rather than guessing.
  3. Report current versions and the proposed target before running a bump.

Route by outcome

Outcome Load and follow
Run the whole upgrade workflows/upgrade-backstage.md
Find the current versions and any misalignment references/discover-versions.md
Choose the target release references/determine-target.md
Bump the dependency set references/bump-deps.md
Move imports off renamed or relocated packages references/migrate-packages.md
Work through the breaking changes between releases references/fix-breaking-changes.md
Verify the upgrade references/verify-upgrade.md

Boundaries

  • This skill owns version numbers. It does not change what a plugin's extensions are or how they attach.
  • /rhdh-plugin-nfs-migration owns extension shape: converting a legacy frontend plugin's extensions into New Frontend System Blueprints. The two skills meet whenever an upgrade is a prerequisite for a migration, or a migration surfaces an outdated dependency set. Bump the versions here; change the extensions there.
  • /backstage-api-changes owns the NFS API deltas between the early alpha and the current GA surface. Invoke it by name when an upgrade breaks NFS code — a removed NavItemBlueprint, a config.schema block that must become configSchema, or a renamed blueprint param.
  • /rhdh-context owns the RHDH-to-Backstage compatibility matrix.
  • /rhdh-plugin-authoring owns non-mechanical source changes the upgrade exposes.
  • /rhdh-pr-create owns staging, commits, and pull requests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 6d ago Changed · +6 lines · +16 tokens per session 1865e4c788e6
  2. 10d ago First seen · 83 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 604c38ea406c

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rhdh-backstage-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhat-developer/rhdh-skills (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 1,040 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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