Update Agents

Update Agents

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

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/agents | | Copilot | ~/.copilot/agents | | Pi | ~/.pi/agent/agents |

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

Workflow

1. Determine the current tool and target directory

First determine which tool is currently running this skill:

• If you are Claude Code, set:
• TARGET_DIR=~/.claude/agents
• SKILL_DIR=~/.claude/skills/update-agents
• If you are Copilot, set:
• TARGET_DIR=~/.copilot/agents
• SKILL_DIR=~/.copilot/skills/update-agents
• If you are Pi, set:
• TARGET_DIR=~/.pi/agent/agents
• SKILL_DIR=~/.pi/agent/skills/update-agents

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

Only use the directory for the currently running tool. Do not check or update the other tool's agents directory.

2. Check for updates

Run the check script using the current tool's skill directory:

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

3. Parse the output

The script outputs one line per agent file with a status prefix:

| Prefix | Meaning | | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- | | UP_TO_DATE: | No changes | | CHANGED: | Files differ - diff follows until END_DIFF line | | MISSING_LOCALLY: | Exists in repo but missing locally | | ALL_UP_TO_DATE | No updates available at all |

Agent files 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 agents are up to date and stop
• Otherwise, FOR EACH CHANGED or MISSING_LOCALLY agent file:
• List the file name and summarise what changed
• Show the diff in a code block
• Ask the user if they want to apply this update

5. Apply updates

For each agent file the user approves, run:

bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/apply-update.sh" "$TARGET_DIR" 

Report success or failure for each.

6. Summary

After processing all agents, print a summary:

• How many agents were updated
• How many were skipped
• How many were already up to date

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: kimgoetzke
• Source: kimgoetzke/coding-agent-configs
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.