bob-update

bob-update is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vmihalis/hacker-bob. It costs 19 tokens per session (239 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An update-checking workflow for Hacker Bob projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect available Hacker Bob updates, view changelogs, and install a confirmed update in the current project.
Why use it?
It separates reading cached update information from checking online and applying changes, helping updates happen with confirmation and a restart reminder.

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/vmihalis/hacker-bob/bob-update
Any agent
npx skills add vmihalis/hacker-bob --skill bob-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmihalis/hacker-bob

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 bob-update

README.md
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 239 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 $0.00019 $0.00239
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7d72c5ff2cf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bob-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 5d 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.

adapters/codex/skills/bob-update/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Hacker Bob Update

Use this when the operator asks to check, plan, or apply Hacker Bob updates from Codex.

Read Cache

Read the passive local cache without network access:

node -e "const update=require('./mcp/core/update-check.js'); console.log(JSON.stringify(update.readUpdateCache(process.cwd()) || null, null, 2));"

Check Latest

Run this only when the operator explicitly asks to check for updates:

node -e "const update=require('./mcp/core/update-check.js'); update.checkForUpdate(process.cwd(), { includeChangelog: true }).then((result) => console.log(update.renderUpdatePlan(result))).catch((error) => { console.error(error.message || String(error)); process.exit(1); });"

Apply Update

Ask before updating. When confirmed, run from the project root:

npx -y hacker-bob@latest install "$PWD"

After installation, tell the operator to restart Codex in this project before continuing.

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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 7d72c5ff2cf4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bob-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository vmihalis/hacker-bob (97 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 239 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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