Update Skills

by sbusso

Update Skills is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by sbusso in claudeclaw.

193 stars60 forkson sbusso/claudeclawAdded 2026/09/06Repository updated 2026/08/12

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Install Update Skills

Copy Update 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/sbusso/claudeclaw/tree/main/skills/update-skills ~/.claude/skills/update-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/sbusso/claudeclaw.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/update-skills/SKILL.md in sbusso/claudeclaw
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/update-skills
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 1013 skills

What Update Skills does

Update Skills checks upstream skill branches for newer commits and merges selected updates into your repo. Use it when installed skills need to be brought up to date without overwriting local changes.

Update Skills is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Update Skills comes from a repository tagged agent, agentic-ai, claude-code and openclaw.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

About

Skills are distributed as git branches (skill/*). When you install a skill, you merge its branch into your repo. This skill checks upstream for newer commits on those skill branches and helps you update.

Run /update-skills in Claude Code.

How it works

Preflight: checks for clean working tree and upstream remote.

Detection: fetches upstream, lists all upstream/skill/* branches, determines which ones you've previously merged (via merge-base), and checks if any have new commits.

Selection: presents a list of skills with available updates. You pick which to update.

Update: merges each selected skill branch, resolves conflicts if any, then validates with build + test.

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

Commands Update Skills provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/update-skills

Frequently asked about Update Skills

What else does sbusso publish alongside Update Skills?
Update Skills is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sbusso/claudeclaw, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Compact Command, Add Gmail and Add Reactions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Update Skills does, and is maintained by sbusso in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sbusso/claudeclaw page.
How does Update Skills compare to other DevOps skills?
Update Skills ranks #907 by stars among the 1013 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Skills against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.