# Auto Refresh After New Plugin Sources

> Trigger a plugin refresh cycle whenever reconciliation installs new marketplaces so plugin state stays in sync.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-ychampion-cskill-agents-auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [ychampion](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ychampion)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [ychampion](https://github.com/ychampion)
- **Source:** https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents/tree/main/agents/claude-code/skills/auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources
- **Website:** https://x.com/YashasGunderia/status/2039990540016693692?s=20

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-ychampion-cskill-agents-auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# SKILL: Auto Refresh After New Plugin Sources
**Domain:** tool-orchestration
**Trigger:** Apply when background reconciliation installs at least one new marketplace and the agent must refresh plugin cache without explicit user action.
**Source Pattern:** Distilled from reviewed post-install refresh and extension-cache invalidation implementations.

## Core Method
After reconciliation reports at least one newly installed plugin source, clear both the source cache and the active plugin cache, then trigger a refresh of the live extension registry. Treat that refresh as best-effort but important: if it succeeds, the new tools become available immediately; if it fails, log the error and raise a manual-refresh flag so the user sees that recovery is required. Do this before treating downstream extension operations as ready, otherwise the product will keep resolving against stale code.

## Key Rules
- Only trigger the refresh when new installs occurred; avoid redundant refresh cycles after mere updates.
- Clear both marketplace and plugin caches before refreshing to ensure stale data cannot leak into the newly loaded plugins.
- Catch refresh failures, log the error, and set a visible manual-refresh flag rather than silently failing.
- Keep analytics/logging tied to the install path so you know when an automatic refresh runs and whether it failed or succeeded.

## Example Application
If a new marketplace is added via a curated list, automatic refresh ensures CLI commands that rely on that marketplace can resolve tools without forcing users to manually run a separate reload step.

## Anti-Patterns (What NOT to do)
- Do not refresh plugin state when there are zero new installs; the extra cache clears slow startup without benefit.
- Do not swallow refresh errors; otherwise users never learn the auto recovery failed and manual action stays hidden.
- Do not reuse stale caches while refreshing; skip clearing caches then refresh and the agent continues pointing at old code.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [ychampion](https://github.com/ychampion)
- **Source:** [ychampion/cskill-agents](https://github.com/ychampion/cskill-agents)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://x.com/YashasGunderia/status/2039990540016693692?s=20

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

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-ychampion-cskill-agents-auto-refresh-after-new-plugin-sources
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/ychampion
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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