novoads-update SKILL.md skillA
novoads-update from novoads/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/novoads-update@git:20260911.9e39357Pins git:20260911.9e39357 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- novoads/agent-skills
- Path
skills/novoads-update/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260911.9e39357, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 13, 2026
- Size
- 17,989 bytes
- Repository stars
- 28
- License
- MIT
Updates this skill pack from upstream, and owns the consent that decides whether it ever updates on its own. Checks whether the clone is behind, asks the user — update now, always keep me up to date, not now, or never ask again — and carries out the answer: applies the update through ./scripts/update.sh, records the consent flag the SessionStart hook already reads, snoozes on an escalating ladder, or turns the check off for good. Summarizes what changed between the two commits from the…
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 the pack This pack is a git clone. Updating it is a merge, and a merge on someone else's working tree is a decision only they can make — so this skill's real product is the question, not the update. Ask, then do exactly what was answered. **Notify-only is the default and stays the default.** Nothing here turns on unattended updating unless the user picks the option that says so, in their own words, in the dialog below. ## Step 0 — confirm this is the pack clone, before anything else This skill manages a **cloned** pack: a git repository with `scripts/update.sh` in it. It can also be installed on its own, copied into someone's `~/.claude/` alongside skills that have nothing to do with this repo — and in that shape every instruction below is pointed at the wrong repository. Step 1's git commands would report on the **user's own project**, and option 2 would write a consent flag into a directory no hook will ever read. **Every command in this skill runs from the clone root.** Move there first, and keep doing it at the top of each block below — a session can open anywhere, and this is the one thing that silently changes what the commands mean: ```bash …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add novoads/agent-skills/novoads-update@sha256:610118a108f294dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.9e39357, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_y6pu6ewyatvxsraw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 13, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260911.9e39357 latest | 2026-09-11 | 9e39357 | 17,989 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.0cfabea | 2026-08-14 | 0cfabea | 17,989 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.62e1e32 | 2026-08-14 | 62e1e32 | 17,473 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260814.227c71d | 2026-08-14 | 227c71d | 17,473 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.5c277a4 | 2026-08-13 | 5c277a4 | 16,808 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260813.999ff97 | 2026-08-13 | 999ff97 | 16,777 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 (17989 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
novoads/agent-skills · 28 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-17 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_y6pu6ewyatvxsraw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=novoads/agent-skills/novoads-update GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/610118a108f294df4a11a6fc89d89edb592633f0e09b9809cc2309c31fefdf9a
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