self-upgrade SKILL.md skillA
self-upgrade from vellum-ai/vellum-assistant is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/self-upgrade@git:20260603.ff934d9Pins git:20260603.ff934d9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vellum-ai/vellum-assistant
- Path
skills/self-upgrade/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260603.ff934d9, committed Jun 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 10, 2026
- Size
- 1,983 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,483
- License
- MIT
Upgrade vellum to the latest version, restart the assistant, and restart the gateway.
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
You are performing a self-upgrade of the Vellum assistant. Follow these steps **in order**. Use the `bash` tool to run each command. Confirm each step succeeds before moving to the next. ## Step 1: Record the current version ```bash vellum --version ``` Save this value to report later. ## Step 2: Install the latest vellum ```bash bun install -g vellum@latest ``` After updating, verify the new version: ```bash vellum --version ``` ## Step 3: Restart the gateway If a gateway process is running, restart it so it picks up any protocol or dependency changes from the new version: ```bash pgrep -f 'vellum-gateway|gateway/src/index.ts' || echo "No gateway process found" ``` If a gateway PID is found, send it SIGTERM so it drains gracefully: ```bash pkill -TERM -f 'vellum-gateway|gateway/src/index.ts' ``` Then start the gateway again using whatever method the user's deployment uses (e.g. `bun run gateway/src/index.ts`, a systemd service, or a container orchestrator). If you are unsure how the gateway is deployed, ask the user. ## Step 4: Restart the assistant …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/self-upgrade@sha256:511a08c51c53169eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260603.ff934d9, 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 4 versions of this file, between Mar 10, 2026 and Jun 3, 2026, about one every 28 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260603.ff934d9 latest | 2026-06-03 | ff934d9 | 1,983 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260316.f7767c5 | 2026-03-16 | f7767c5 | 1,960 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260315.3bcdc64 | 2026-03-15 | 3bcdc64 | 1,955 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260310.0ceb0a0 | 2026-03-10 | 0ceb0a0 | 1,980 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1983 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
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 1,483 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xlteta26zzttp65v GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vellum-ai/vellum-assistant/self-upgrade GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/511a08c51c53169ec409e9e0e71800a6d231817f63b333666545b40872de1238
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