upgrade-playbooks

upgrade-playbooks is a skill for Claude Code from vinta/hal-9000. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance workflow for updating software installation tasks in Ansible playbooks against their upstream documentation. Ansible playbooks are files that automate server setup and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update installation pins, recommended installation methods, moved documentation links, Ansible collection requirements, and CI lint tooling.
Why use it?
It helps prevent pinned versions, installation methods, and documentation links from becoming outdated. It keeps updates within the project's chosen release line unless a newer line needs a separate decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is Edit(./playbooks/roles/**).

Good fit Use it to update installation pins, recommended installation methods, moved documentation links, Ansible collection requirements, and CI lint tooling.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinta/hal-9000
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vinta/hal-9000/upgrade-playbooks

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,540 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00067 $0.01540
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00616
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00154

Measured yesterday against content hash 77f93c3c4714, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-playbooks scanned grade A 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 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Bash(curl:*)
.claude/skills/upgrade-playbooks/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Playbooks

Close the drift between each install task in playbooks/roles/*/tasks/main.yml and the upstream docs it cites, then commit per tool.

Drift takes three forms, and all three are read off the same page — the # comment URL above the task:

  • Version drift — the pin trails the newest release of its release line.
  • Method drift — upstream now recommends a different way to install.
  • Link drift — the doc URL itself moved.

A release line is the version prefix a project treats as a stable series: Node 24.x, Python 3.14.x, kubectl 1.35.x. Every bump stays inside the line (24.15.0 -> 24.18.0 is in-line for Node because Node's line is the major). When a newer line exists (Node 26, Python 3.15, kubectl 1.36), keep the pin on its current line and report the newer line in the final summary so the user can decide.

Two pins live outside the roles and answer to a different source of truth — playbooks/collections/requirements.yml, covered in §4, and CI's ansible-lint action, covered in §5.

1. Scan

grep -rn -E '^# https?://|^- name:' playbooks/roles/*/tasks/main.yml

Adjacent line numbers pair each URL with the task it documents. Done when every install task is listed with its role, its doc URL, and any version pinned in its name, command body, or download URL.

2. Read the upstream docs

Fetch each doc URL once and take all three answers off that one page:

  • newest tag inside the release line — gh api repos/OWNER/REPO/releases --jq '.[].tag_name' for a github.com/OWNER/REPO link, WebFetch otherwise.
  • the install commands the page currently recommends for macOS — quote them verbatim, including which method the page calls recommended when it ranks them.
  • where the URL lands — curl -sIL -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n' URL.

Done when every task has today's version, install commands, and final URL confirmed from its page. Anything recalled from training data is stale by definition.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. yesterday First seen · 96 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 77f93c3c4714

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upgrade-playbooks is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinta/hal-9000 (141 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,540 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-22.

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