version-check

version-check is a skill for Claude Code from ykdojo/claude-code-tips. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,803 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for choosing which Claude Code version to use, including whether to update from the installed version.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking which version is recommended, deciding whether to update now, and understanding changes since the installed version.
Why use it?
It helps when release changes or possible bugs make it unclear whether updating is safe or worthwhile.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dx plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Checking which version is recommended, deciding whether to update now, and understanding changes since the installed version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check
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 ykdojo/claude-code-tips --skill version-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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 version-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for version-check

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/version-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,803 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. 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 Supply Chain · line 67
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
  • high Excessive Agency · line 80
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.01803
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00721
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00180

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 658adae623f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-check 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 1mo 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/claude-code/main/CHANGELOG.md | awk '/## <LATEST>/,/## <INSTALLED>/'
skills/version-check/SKILL.md · 106 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 106 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 658adae623f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository ykdojo/claude-code-tips (10,233 stars, last pushed 21d ago), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,803 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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