Version Check

Version Check is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in claude-code-tips.

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Install Version Check

Copy Version Check 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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/skills/version-check ~/.claude/skills/version-check

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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/version-check/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/version-check
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Version Check does

Version Check recommends which Claude Code version to run or update to, and whether to pin a release. It compares installed vs published versions, scans the changelog for regressions, checks community issues, and tests model claims before recommending.

Version Check is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Version Check comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Claude Code version check

The goal is a recommendation: stay put, update, or pin to a specific version. Claude Code ships latest very frequently (often 1-2x/day), so "best version" is a moving target and the answer is usually a range, not a single build.

Heuristics (read first)

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

Frequently asked about Version Check

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Version Check?
Version Check is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, HN Summarize and Half Clone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Version Check does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does Version Check compare to other DevOps skills?
Version Check ranks #119 by stars among the 798 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 Version Check against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.