auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources

auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ychampion/cskill-agents. It costs 25 tokens per session (406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automatic cache refresh for coding-agent plugins after a new marketplace source is installed.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps keep plugin and marketplace state synchronized during background installation, while flagging cases that need manual recovery.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from using outdated plugin information and makes newly installed tools available without requiring a manual refresh.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps keep plugin and marketplace state synchronized during background installation, while flagging cases that need manual recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ychampion/cskill-agents/auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources
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 ychampion/cskill-agents --skill auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00025 $0.00406
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00203
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00041

Measured 10d ago against content hash b307ce535b07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources 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 10d 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.

agents/claude-code/skills/auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

SKILL: Auto Refresh After New Plugin Sources

Domain: tool-orchestration Trigger: Apply when background reconciliation installs at least one new marketplace and the agent must refresh plugin cache without explicit user action. Source Pattern: Distilled from reviewed post-install refresh and extension-cache invalidation implementations.

Core Method

After reconciliation reports at least one newly installed plugin source, clear both the source cache and the active plugin cache, then trigger a refresh of the live extension registry. Treat that refresh as best-effort but important: if it succeeds, the new tools become available immediately; if it fails, log the error and raise a manual-refresh flag so the user sees that recovery is required. Do this before treating downstream extension operations as ready, otherwise the product will keep resolving against stale code.

Key Rules

  • Only trigger the refresh when new installs occurred; avoid redundant refresh cycles after mere updates.
  • Clear both marketplace and plugin caches before refreshing to ensure stale data cannot leak into the newly loaded plugins.
  • Catch refresh failures, log the error, and set a visible manual-refresh flag rather than silently failing.
  • Keep analytics/logging tied to the install path so you know when an automatic refresh runs and whether it failed or succeeded.

Example Application

If a new marketplace is added via a curated list, automatic refresh ensures CLI commands that rely on that marketplace can resolve tools without forcing users to manually run a separate reload step.

Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)

  • Do not refresh plugin state when there are zero new installs; the extra cache clears slow startup without benefit.
  • Do not swallow refresh errors; otherwise users never learn the auto recovery failed and manual action stays hidden.
  • Do not reuse stale caches while refreshing; skip clearing caches then refresh and the agent continues pointing at old code.
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. 10d ago First seen · 31 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b307ce535b07

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auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources is a skill published in the GitHub repository ychampion/cskill-agents (36 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 406 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.