upgrade-claude

upgrade-claude is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zylos-ai/zylos-core. It costs 37 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

An upgrade procedure for Claude Code, a command-line coding assistant. It prepares the session, exits Claude Code, applies the update, and allows the activity monitor to restart it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Claude Code needs an upgrade or when a new version is available, including the required checks, memory sync, and session handoff.
Why use it?
It preserves important session context and avoids leaving background work running during an upgrade. It is intended for applying a newer Claude Code version safely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when Claude Code needs an upgrade or when a new version is available, including the required checks, memory sync, and session handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zylos-ai/zylos-core/upgrade-claude
About the project

Zylos is open-source infrastructure that gives an AI agent persistent memory, scheduled activity, communication channels, and the ability to maintain and extend itself. Individuals and teams use it with Claude Code or Codex through Telegram, Lark, or a web console. Its catalogue add-ons define settings, instructions, and skills for operating the agent.

zylos-ai/zylos-core · 1,151 stars · on GitHub · zylos.ai

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 zylos-ai/zylos-core --skill upgrade-claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zylos-ai/zylos-core

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 636 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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: 3 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 69
    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.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 59
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 62
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00064

Measured 12d ago against content hash e626529b0038, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

upgrade-claude scanned grade C with 2 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/upgrade.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

3. **Upgrade**: Runs native installer (`curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash`)

Makes network callslowCapability

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

3. **Upgrade**: Runs native installer (`curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash`)
skills/upgrade-claude/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upgrade Claude Code Skill

Upgrade Claude Code to the latest version - sends /exit, waits for exit, upgrades, and lets activity-monitor restart.

When to Use

  • User explicitly asks to upgrade Claude Code
  • New Claude Code version is available
  • Need to apply Claude Code updates

Pre-Upgrade Checklist

Before launching the upgrade script, complete these steps in order:

1. Stop background tasks

Check for running background agents (Task tool). If any are active, stop them to avoid orphaned work.

2. Sync memory

Update memory files (state.md, sessions/current.md, etc.) to preserve important context that would otherwise be lost on restart.

3. Write a session handoff summary

Write a brief message covering:

  • What was being worked on (active tasks, user requests in progress)
  • Current state (what's done, what's pending, any blockers)
  • What the next session should pick up (if anything)

4. Send the handoff summary

Send the full handoff summary to the internal void channel via C4:

cat <<'EOF' | node ~/zylos/.claude/skills/comm-bridge/scripts/c4-send.js "void" "session-handoff"
<handoff summary>
EOF

The void channel is record-only: the message is stored in C4 conversation history (so the upgraded session's startup hook, c4-session-init, includes it in startup context) but is never delivered to any real channel or display surface.

Do not send the full handoff summary to the active external user channel (Telegram, Lark, Feishu, HXA, etc.). Handoff summaries are operational context for the next agent session and may contain task state from outside the current conversation. If the user is actively waiting, send only a short user-facing notice to their current reply via path, without internal task inventory or cross-channel context.

5. Launch the upgrade script

IMPORTANT: Must use nohup ... & pattern!

nohup node ~/zylos/.claude/skills/upgrade-claude/scripts/upgrade.js >> ~/zylos/logs/upgrade.log 2>&1 &

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 71 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C e626529b0038

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upgrade-claude is a skill published in the GitHub repository zylos-ai/zylos-core (1,151 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 636 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.