upgrade-playbooks SKILL.md skillA

upgrade-playbooks from vinta/hal-9000 is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add vinta/hal-9000/upgrade-playbooks@git:20261027.b61d273

Pins git:20261027.b61d273 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
vinta/hal-9000
Path
.claude/skills/upgrade-playbooks/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261027.b61d273, committed Oct 27, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 21, 2026
Size
5,976 bytes
Repository stars
142
License
MIT

(project) Use when upgrading install tasks in playbooks/roles/ against upstream docs — bumping a pinned version, adopting a newly recommended install method, repointing a doc link that moved, or realigning the community.general pin with the brew-installed ansible and CI's ansible-lint action with uv.lock.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Update Playbooks

Close the **drift** between each install task in `playbooks/roles/*/tasks/main.yml` and the upstream docs it cites, then commit per tool.

Drift takes three forms, and all three are read off the same page — the `#` comment URL above the task:

- **Version drift** — the pin trails the newest release of its **release line**.
- **Method drift** — upstream now recommends a different way to install.
- **Link drift** — the doc URL itself moved.

A **release line** is the version prefix a project treats as a stable series: Node `24.x`, Python `3.14.x`, kubectl `1.35.x`. Every bump stays inside the line (`24.15.0` -> `24.18.0` is in-line for Node because Node's line is the major). When a newer line exists (Node 26, Python 3.15, kubectl 1.36), keep the pin on its current line and report the newer line in the final summary so the user can decide.

Two pins live outside the roles and answer to a different source of truth — `playbooks/collections/requirements.yml`, covered in §4, and CI's ansible-lint action, covered in §5.

## 1. Scan

```bash
grep -rn -E '^# https?://|^- name:' playbooks/roles/*/tasks/main.yml
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add vinta/hal-9000/upgrade-playbooks@sha256:33239220348630c5

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.b61d273, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 21, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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Audit of the latest version

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  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5976 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source

GitHub

vinta/hal-9000 · 142 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_plhzbejeuvnhyn4v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vinta/hal-9000/upgrade-playbooks
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/33239220348630c5f4123a634f32d2d74f61d13fbc1ea9ed52b2e83e46c7cda9

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