update-stack

A maintenance skill that checks a guide’s framework and library versions online, then updates the affected guide files and records the changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refresh a developer guide after its tools or dependencies release new stable versions, while limiting edits to the affected instructions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually find outdated versions, commands, code examples, and documentation links. It also checks whether updates would change steps that have already been followed.

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/tomthebearded/guide-forge/update-stack
Any agent
npx skills add tomthebearded/guide-forge --skill update-stack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomthebearded/guide-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 576 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 $0.00173 $0.00576
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00288
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00058

Measured yesterday against content hash cc890a7173b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-stack 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.

skills/update-stack/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Skill: update-stack

The complete, canonical contract for this skill is the paste-prompt it wraps, inlined here — follow it in full:

!cat "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/prompt.md"

(If the block above came back empty or errored, read prompt.md in this skill folder — it sits beside this SKILL.md — and follow that.)

As you follow it, adapt for the fact that you're a Claude Code skill, not a pasted prompt:

  • You're already invoked — skip its "How to use / paste this" preamble and its {{TOOLS}} placeholder. The tools to bump are $ARGUMENTS below (a subset of tool names, or empty for all), plus any attached lockfile/manifest. Read the guide's guide/ files yourself where you can.
  • You have file tools hereedit the guide on disk under guide/ as the prompt directs, rather than only printing fenced blocks.
  • When the prompt hands off to audit-guide (Phase 7), use the sibling skill /audit-guide.

Tools to bump / args:

$ARGUMENTS

Gate: run the prompt's Step 0 frontier gate first — read guide/foundation/progress.md, and if the propagation would rewrite a step already executed, stop and present the three routes before writing any step file (stack.md itself is always safe to bump). Touch only what the version bump actually affects; never mark a rewritten milestone — the code changed, so the user must re-run the Done-when gates. Leave all changes in the working tree — do not commit.

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 First seen · 43 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A cc890a7173b0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomthebearded/guide-forge (3 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 576 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 2026-08-31.

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