Capgo Live Updates

This walks you through setting up Capgo for pushing instant updates to your Capacitor apps without waiting for app store approval. You get account setup, CLI installation, plugin configuration, and deployment workflows including CI/CD examples for GitHub Actions and GitLab. It covers automatic versus manual update modes, channel management for staged rollouts, and the critical notifyAppReady() call that prevents automatic rollbacks. The guidance is thorough on what you can update (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) versus what still needs store approval (native code). Useful if you're shipping hotfixes or running A/B tests and want to move faster than Apple and Google's review cycles allow.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add cap-go/capgo-skills --skill capgo-live-updates --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Capgo Live Updates

Wire @capgo/capacitor-updater into a Capacitor app, ship the first bundle, and keep rollback safe.

Facts below were checked against @capgo/capacitor-updater 8.54.2 and @capgo/cli 8.104 (November 2026).

When to Use

TRIGGER when:

The user wants OTA / live updates, hotfixes without store review, or "Capgo" in a Capacitor app.
The updater plugin needs installing, upgrading, or configuring in capacitor.config.*.
The user asks about notifyAppReady, autoUpdate modes, directUpdate, autoSplashscreen, setChannel, getLatest, download, next, set, or reset.
Updates upload fine but devices never get them, roll back, or loop.