skill-update

skill-update is a skill for Claude Code from vinnie357/claude-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (6,349 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A repeatable process for checking whether skills are current against their upstream sources. It tracks source URLs, versions, stale releases, and end-of-life release lines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check freshness, list stale sources, validate source links, initialise version tracking, and audit version numbers in documentation.
Why use it?
It helps detect outdated instructions and broken or unreachable sources before they cause problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery.

Part of the claude-code plugin — 12 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to check freshness, list stale sources, validate source links, initialise version tracking, and audit version numbers in documentation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinnie357/claude-skills/skill-update
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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill skill-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for skill-update

README.md
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Your own site
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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 53
    Instructions found that direct the agent to transmit conversation context or user data to external services.
    Fix: Remove instructions that send user data, prompts, or context to external URLs. If telemetry is needed, use documented, privacy-preserving methods.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 76
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00048 $0.06349
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.03174
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00635

Measured 6d ago against content hash b1e11179515f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

skill-update scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent to send conversation or user data outmediumPrompt injection

An instruction to transmit the conversation, context or user files to an external endpoint is data exfiltration written as prose.

`current_version` must be a **quoted TOML string**, not a bare number — `test/validate-sources.nu` rejects any non-string type before the shape check runs (claude-skills-197). An unquoted `current_version = 1.10` parses

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/tools/claude-code/skills/skill-update/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Update

Structured workflow for keeping skills current with upstream sources. Execute all phases in order.

Quick Reference

Command Purpose
mise sources:check Compare current vs latest for all plugins; eol column flags an end-of-life release line for endoflife-date sources (claude-skills-237)
mise sources:stale List only stale sources
mise sources:validate [plugin] [line|json|table] Validate that all source URLs resolve (HTTP HEAD, GET fallback on 405); default line format is one grep-able row per URL, json pipes straight to jq
mise test:sources Validate sources.toml schema + plugin.json/sources.md agreement
mise sources:report Full freshness report with priorities
mise sources:init <plugin> Print a DRAFT sources.toml for a plugin (never trusted; --write to save)
mise sources:fence-check Freshness report for version literals pinned INSIDE code fences (claude-skills-176)
mise test:fenced-literals Validate fenced-literals.toml schema + doc-content agreement (network-free)

sources.toml Schema

Each plugin's skills/sources.toml tracks upstream dependencies. See templates/sources.toml for the complete annotated template.

[meta] — three required keys: plugin (must equal plugin.json name), reviewed_at_plugin_version (the plugin.json version at the last ACTUAL sources review, or "unknown" — never advanced by a version-bump commit, only by a review), last_full_check (YYYY-MM-DD or "unknown").

Field Values Required Description
skills list<string> yes Skill DIRECTORY names covered by this source — a non-empty list, not a scalar
name string yes Human-readable source identifier
url string yes unless check_method = "none" Primary source URL
releases_url string no Release tracking URL
check_method see table below yes How to query latest version
github_repo owner/repo conditional Required for github-releases
hex_package string conditional Required for hex-pm
crate_name string conditional Required for crates-io
npm_package string conditional Required for npm (registry package name, @scope/name included)
docker_image namespace/repository conditional Required for docker-hub (e.g. library/node)
docker_tag string conditional Optional for docker-hub (e.g. 13-slim) — when set, switches the check to the per-tag content digest of that exact pin instead of the newest tag's name (claude-skills-225); current_version then holds a sha256:<64 hex> digest, accepted by b3_version_shape only for entries that set this field
eol_product string conditional Required for endoflife-date (the endoflife.date product slug, e.g. nodejs)
current_version QUOTED shape-checked version string | unknown yes unless none The upstream version this skill content was last verified/documented against
version_constraint pre-1.0 | semver | rolling | stable yes unless none Version stability model — NOT valid values for current_version itself; a rolling/stable source with no discrete version records current_version = "unknown" (the convention 117 of 119 rolling entries and 8 of 12 stable entries already follow)
last_checked YYYY-MM-DD | unknown yes Date of last check
update_priority high | medium | low yes unless none Update urgency
breaking_changes_likely bool no Minor bumps may break (default: false)
notes string no in general, yes when check_method = "none" Free-form context

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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 · 271 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B b1e11179515f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (25 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 6,349 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (tells the agent to send conversation or user data out). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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