upgrade-project

A migration guide for repositories created from an older project template to a newer Claude Code workflow. It checks existing project files and moves old project memory and configuration into the newer locations without overwriting existing content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to migrate old memory-bank files, update Cursor references, add Claude instructions and skills, replace template placeholders, and move a project from Poetry when required.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work and risk involved in updating an older repository while preserving useful project notes and adding missing Claude Code setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/songshgeo/python-project-template/upgrade-project
Any agent
npx skills add SongshGeo/Python-Project-Template --skill upgrade-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SongshGeo/Python-Project-Template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 720 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 $0.00083 $0.00720
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00360
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00072

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7da5953d28ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-project 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.

.claude/skills/upgrade-project/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

upgrade-project

Bring an existing repository (one already created from an older version of this template) up to the current Claude Code workflow. This skill is idempotent: every step checks current state first and skips what already exists, so it is safe to run more than once.

1. Detect current state

Report what you find before changing anything:

  • Does .cursor/cache/ exist (old memory-bank location)?
  • Does memory-bank/ already exist?
  • Do CLAUDE.md and .claude/skills/ exist?
  • Is pyproject.toml still using the placeholder name songshgeo?
  • Is the build still on poetry ([tool.poetry] present / poetry-core backend)?

2. Migrate the memory bank

  • If .cursor/cache/*.md exist and memory-bank/ does not: git mv the four docs (architecture, model-design, tech-stack, progress) into memory-bank/, and git mv .cursor/plans/.keep memory-bank/plans/.keep.
  • If both locations have content: merge without overwriting — bring any unique content from .cursor/cache/ into memory-bank/, then remove the stale copies. Never clobber existing memory-bank content.
  • Update .cursor/rules/cursorrules.mdc so it points at memory-bank/ and notes CLAUDE.md as the authoritative rules source.

3. Add missing scaffolding

For each of these, create it only if absent (otherwise show a diff/summary and let the user decide):

  • CLAUDE.md
  • .claude/skills/{setup-project,upgrade-project,update-memory-bank,quality-check,commit}/SKILL.md
  • .claude/settings.json
  • .claude/recommended-skills.md

4. Optional: modernize tooling

If the repo is still on poetry, offer (do not force) to migrate to uv-only: drop [tool.poetry], switch [build-system] to hatchling, and make the Makefile uv-only. Confirm before editing build config on an established project.

5. Optional: install external skills

npx skills@latest add SongshGeo/skills

Point the user at .claude/recommended-skills.md for the recommended set.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 7da5953d28ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upgrade-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository SongshGeo/Python-Project-Template (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 720 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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