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skills-updater

yizhiyanhua-ai/skills-updater

Maintenance infrastructure for living skill ecosystems.

Reusable AI workflows decay unless updates and discovery stay easy. Maintenance tooling is what keeps reuse real.

Open GitHub
github.com/yizhiyanhua-ai/skills-updater

Skills Updater

Manage, update, and discover Claude Code skills across multiple installation sources.

中文

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

License

MIT