update

An update procedure for Genesis, a project-generation repository, that checks for and applies changes from its remote Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to check for, review, and optionally pull the latest Genesis changes.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether the local Genesis setup is out of date while checking for uncommitted work that could conflict with an update.

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/xeeva/genesis/update
Any agent
npx skills add xeeva/Genesis --skill update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xeeva/Genesis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 535 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 $0.00037 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8539962d4609, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/update/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Genesis

Check for and apply updates from the Genesis repository.

Steps

  1. Verify location: Confirm you are operating in the Genesis directory (~/claude/genesis/). If not, inform the user and exit.

  2. Check for local changes:

git -C ~/claude/genesis/ status --porcelain

If there are uncommitted changes, warn the user and ask whether to proceed (updates may conflict) or abort.

  1. Fetch updates:
git -C ~/claude/genesis/ fetch origin main
  1. Compare versions:
git -C ~/claude/genesis/ rev-list HEAD..origin/main --count

If the count is 0, report "Genesis is already up to date." and exit.

  1. Show what changed:
git -C ~/claude/genesis/ log HEAD..origin/main --oneline --no-decorate

Present the list of incoming changes to the user. Highlight notable updates (new agents, skills, templates, or stack support).

  1. Confirm with the user: Ask whether to apply the updates. Use AskUserQuestion.

  2. Apply updates:

git -C ~/claude/genesis/ pull origin main
  1. Report results: Summarise what was updated. If new skills or agents were added, mention them. If templates changed, note that future generated projects will use the updated templates.

What is Preserved

The following user-specific files are gitignored and will never be overwritten by updates:

  • personalisation.md -- your locale, output style, and profile preferences
  • environment.md -- your platform, shell, and path configuration
  • .claude/settings.local.json -- local Claude Code permission overrides

The .example versions of these files (shipped with Genesis) may be updated to reflect new configuration options. After updating, check if the examples have new fields you might want to add to your own files.

Notes

  • This skill only updates Genesis itself, not projects previously generated by Genesis.
  • Previously generated projects are independent and unaffected by Genesis updates.
  • If the pull fails due to conflicts, explain the situation and suggest git stash or manual resolution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 8539962d4609

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update is a skill published in the GitHub repository xeeva/Genesis (17 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 535 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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