Update Skills

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: | 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 |

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" 

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.

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.