Skills Updater
Manage, update, and discover Claude Code skills across multiple installation sources.
Features
- Update Checker - Scan installed skills and check for available updates
- Auto-Install - Automatically reinstall affected skills after marketplace updates
- Skill Recommendations - Discover trending skills from skills.sh
- i18n Support - Auto-detect locale (English/Chinese)
Installation
In Claude Code, simply ask it to clone and install:
Clone https://github.com/yizhiyanhua-ai/skills-updater to ~/.claude/skills/
Or just say:
Install the skills-updater skill
Usage
After installation, trigger with natural language or commands in Claude Code:
Check for Updates
Check for skill updates
/skills-updater
Update a Marketplace
Update the anthropic-agent-skills marketplace
Discover New Skills
Recommend some useful skills
What are some popular skills?
Examples
Example 1: Check for Updates
You: Check for skill updates
Claude: Checking for skill updates...
📦 Installed Skills Status
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ Up-to-date (15):
• skill-creator@daymade-skills (1.2.2)
...
⬆️ Updates Available (1):
• document-skills@anthropic-agent-skills
Local: e5c60158 → Remote: 69c0b1a0
Example 2: Update and Auto-Install
You: Update the anthropic-agent-skills marketplace
Claude:
📡 Fetching remote updates...
Current commit: e5c60158df67
Remote commit: 69c0b1a06741
Status: Behind by 6 commits
📦 Affected skills: document-skills
Confirm update? Enter 'yes' to proceed.
You: yes
Claude:
📥 Updating marketplace: anthropic-agent-skills
✅ Marketplace updated successfully
✅ Reinstalled: document-skills
Example 3: Discover New Skills
You: Recommend some useful skills
Claude:
🔥 Trending Skills
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
From skills.sh (Top 10):
1. vercel-react-best-practices (25.5K installs)
2. web-design-guidelines (19.2K installs)
...
💡 Personalized Recommendations
Based on your installed skills:
• playwright-skill - Browser automation testing
• github-ops - GitHub CLI operations
Trigger Summary
| Feature | Natural Language | Command |
|---|---|---|
| Check updates | "Check for skill updates" | /skills-updater |
| Update marketplace | "Update xxx marketplace" | - |
| Skill recommendations | "Recommend some skills" | - |
| Update all | "Update all skills" | - |
Language Support
Automatically displays in English or Chinese based on your system language. Claude Code will auto-detect your locale.
Documentation
- SKILL.md - Complete skill documentation
- references/marketplaces.md - Supported marketplaces list
License
MIT