Update Installed Skills
This handles keeping your installed Claude skills up to date without accidentally breaking things. It wraps the ai-agent-skills CLI with a sensible workflow: always dry-run first, check what's installed, review changes before applying. The real value is in the guardrails around bulk updates and the heads-up about gotchas like manually edited files getting clobbered during sync. If you're running skills from GitHub sources, be aware that sync does a fresh clone, so dead repos will fail. It's defensive by design, which matters when you're updating tools that an agent relies on in production.
- skills.sh installs
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- May 5, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills --skill update-installed-skills --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
Update Installed Skills
Goal
Keep installed skills current without breaking the agent's workflow or silently overwriting local customizations.
Guardrails
- Always use
--dry-runbefore 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 jsonto 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
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- Repository
- github.com/moizibnyousaf/ai-agent-skills
- Category
- AI & Agent Building
- License
- MIT
- First seen
- Jun 11, 2026
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