Agent-Skills.md

Agent Skills: Update Installed Skills

Use when syncing or updating previously installed skills to their latest version. Always dry-run updates before applying, and check for breaking changes.

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skillcreatorai/Ai-Agent-Skills
MoizIbnYousafLicense: MIT
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Install this agent skill to your local

pnpm dlx add-skill https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills/tree/HEAD/skills/update-installed-skills

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skills/update-installed-skills/SKILL.md

Skill Metadata

Name
update-installed-skills
Description
Use when syncing or updating previously installed skills to their latest version. Always dry-run updates before applying, and check for breaking changes.

Update Installed Skills

Goal

Keep installed skills current without breaking the agent's workflow or silently overwriting local customizations.

Guardrails

  • Always use --dry-run before running a real update.
  • Check what is currently installed before updating: npx ai-agent-skills list --installed.
  • Never update all skills at once in production without reviewing the dry-run output.
  • Use --format json to capture structured update results for logging.

Workflow

  1. List currently installed skills.
npx ai-agent-skills list --installed --format json --fields name
  1. Check for available updates.
npx ai-agent-skills check
  1. Dry-run the update.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name> --dry-run
  1. Apply the update after reviewing.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name>
  1. For bulk updates, review each skill's dry-run output.
npx ai-agent-skills sync --all --dry-run

Gotchas

  • Skills installed from GitHub will attempt a fresh clone during sync. If the upstream repo is gone, the update will fail gracefully.
  • Manually edited SKILL.md files will be overwritten by sync. Back up customizations before syncing.
  • The check command makes network requests to verify upstream sources. It may be slow or fail if sources are unreachable.