update

update is a skill for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 10 tokens per session (311 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An update procedure for the VBW plugin, including commands to install the latest version and reload it in Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update VBW, reload the new version, and check what changed afterward.
Why use it?
It provides the steps needed when the plugin is outdated and explains how automatic updates affect the plugin files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the vbw plugin — 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to update VBW, reload the new version, and check what changed afterward.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw
Claude Code
/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 311 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 $0.00010 $0.00311
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00124
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00031

Measured today against content hash 66a822b133f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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.

plugin/skills/update/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" interview 2>&1 || true

Write to the user's level, explanation depth and involvement (above; "-": plain words).

Update with Claude Code's own plugin commands, one at a time:

  1. claude plugin marketplace update vbw-marketplace
  2. claude plugin update vbw@vbw-marketplace

Then tell the user to run /reload-plugins (or restart Claude Code) so the new version loads, and to run /vbw:whats-new to see what changed. If a command fails, show its output and suggest /plugin to update from the menu.

VBW never checks for a new version itself. Claude Code can, with auto-update, but it is off by default for a marketplace like VBW's. Tell the user once, after the update: with auto-update on, Claude Code updates VBW in the background and says "Plugin updated: vbw"; they turn it on in /plugin (Marketplaces tab, vbw-marketplace, Enable auto-update). It is their choice, since it changes VBW's files on disk without asking; /vbw:doctor shows whether it is on. Never switch it for them.

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. today First seen · 29 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 66a822b133f1

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update is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 311 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-22.