Update Installed Skills

by MoizIbnYousaf

Update Installed Skills is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by MoizIbnYousaf in ai-agent-skills.

1.1K stars131 forkson MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skillsAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/08/17

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Install Update Installed Skills

Copy Update Installed Skills into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/update-installed-skills ~/.claude/skills/update-installed-skills

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/update-installed-skills/SKILL.md in MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/update-installed-skills
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1754 skills

What Update Installed Skills does

Update Installed Skills keeps previously installed skills current while checking for breakages and local changes. Use it to list installed skills, dry-run syncs, and apply updates after review.

Update Installed Skills is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Update Installed Skills comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, cli and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Update Installed Skills

What else does MoizIbnYousaf publish alongside Update Installed Skills?
Update Installed Skills is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add an Upstream Skill, Ask Questions If Underspecified and Audit Library Health. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Update Installed Skills does, and is maintained by MoizIbnYousaf in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the MoizIbnYousaf/ai-agent-skills page.
How does Update Installed Skills compare to other Automation skills?
Update Installed Skills ranks #763 by stars among the 1754 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Update Installed Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.