Update skills

Skill kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs/skills/update-skills

My personal skills, agents, and other configuration files for agentic coding.

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npx -y skills add kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs --skill update-skills

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Check for and apply updates to locally installed skills from the kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs GitHub repo. Use when user asks to update skills, sync skills, check for skill updates, or mentions updating their skills.

SKILL.md

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Update Skills

Check for updates to locally installed skills by fetching the latest from kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs on GitHub and comparing against the local skills directory.

Configuration

Remote repo: https://github.com/kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs.git
Scripts location: Bundled in this skill's scripts/ directory

Target directory by tool

Tool	Default target directory
Claude Code	`~/.claude/skills`
Copilot	`~/.copilot/skills`
Pi	`~/.pi/agent/skills`

If you cannot determine which tool you are, ask the user.

Workflow

1. Determine target directory

Set the target directory based on the table above. Use the variable TARGET_DIR in subsequent steps.

Also resolve SKILL_DIR to the absolute path of this locally installed skill directory. Typical values:

Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/update-skills
Copilot: ~/.copilot/skills/update-skills
Pi: ~/.pi/agent/skills/update-skills

2. Check for updates

Run the check script:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/check-updates.sh" "$TARGET_DIR"

3. Parse the output

The script outputs one line per skill with a status prefix:

Prefix	Meaning
`UP_TO_DATE:<name>`	No changes
`CHANGED:<name>`	Files differ — diff follows until `END_DIFF` line
`MISSING_LOCALLY:<name>`	Exists in repo but missing locally
`ALL_UP_TO_DATE`	No updates available at all

Skills that exist locally but not in the remote repo are ignored.

4. Present results to the user

If ALL_UP_TO_DATE: tell the user all skills are up to date and stop
Otherwise, FOR EACH CHANGED or MISSING_LOCALLY skill:
- List the skill name and summarise what changed (files added/removed/modified)
- Show the diff in a code block
- Ask the user if they want to apply this update

5. Apply updates

For each skill the user approves, run:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/apply-update.sh" "$TARGET_DIR" <skill-name>

Report success or failure for each.

6. Summary

After processing all skills, print a summary:

How many skills were updated
How many were skipped
How many were already up to date

Finally, ask the user if they wish to use the /update-agents skill to sync any agents from the remote repo.