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Update Installed Skills

moizibnyousaf/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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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository 
npx skills add https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/Ai-Agent-Skills --skill update-installed-skills

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

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

  • List currently installed skills.
npx ai-agent-skills list --installed --format json --fields name
  • Check for available updates.
npx ai-agent-skills check
  • Dry-run the update.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name> --dry-run
  • Apply the update after reviewing.
npx ai-agent-skills sync <skill-name>
  • 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.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take moizibnyousaf/update-installed-skills from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.