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update-skills

The `update-skills` command re-applies installed skills to fetch their latest code from upstream branches without losing local customizations. Use it after new versions of channel, provider, or utility skills are released upstream, running it in Claude Code to refresh individual skills through their own idempotent apply steps, which re-fetch and overwrite only that skill's code files while preserving credentials and configuration.

Install in Claude Code
Copy
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw /tmp/update-skills && cp -r /tmp/update-skills/.claude/skills/update-skills ~/.claude/skills/update-skills
Then start a new Claude Code session; the skill loads automatically.

SKILL.md

# Update installed skills

Refresh the code carried by installed channel and provider skills. This does
not re-run credential setup, change `.env`, alter wiring, or restart services.

Run from the NanoClaw project root. Use ordinary conversation for any choice;
do not depend on a provider-specific question or skill-invocation tool.

## 1. Preflight and selection

Require a clean working tree:

```bash
git status --porcelain
```

If it is dirty, stop. Never mix a refresh with unrelated changes.

The default is every installed channel/provider. If the user asked for a
subset, pass its comma-separated names. Otherwise use `all`:

```bash
pnpm exec tsx scripts/update-skills.ts --skills all
# Example subset: --skills slack,opencode
```

The helper detects installed skills from the real channel/provider barrels. It
resolves each registry branch by checking configured remotes, so a fork whose
`origin` is the user's repo and whose official source is `upstream` works
without special handling. `NANOCLAW_REGISTRY_REMOTE=<name>` is an explicit
override and is validated before use.

## 2. Treat the JSON result as a gate

The command prints `nanoclaw-skill-refresh/v1`-shaped JSON fields with one
result per selected skill and exits nonzero unless every selected skill was
fully refreshed.

- Continue only when `success` is `true` and every status is `refreshed`.
- A missing skill, missing structured apply contract, unresolved input, agent
  fallback, fetch error, or dependency error is blocking.
- Never record a failed skill and continue toward an upgrade completion stamp.
- Preserve the full report in the update summary.

The refresh engine overwrites skill-owned registry files and advances exact
dependency/CLI-manifest pins. It skips prompts, operator walkthroughs, `.env`
writes, wiring, restarts, and ordinary build/test directives.

## 3. Validate the composed checkout

After a successful refresh:

```bash
pnpm run build
pnpm test
```

If files under `container/agent-runner/src/` changed, also run:

```bash
pnpm exec tsc -p container/agent-runner/tsconfig.json --noEmit
```

If anything under `container/` changed, update the install's agent image using
the source mode already selected in `.env`:

```bash
if grep -q '^NANOCLAW_HARDENED_IMAGE=true$' .env 2>/dev/null; then
  ./container/build.sh pull
else
  ./container/build.sh
fi
```

Any validation or image failure is blocking. Do not restart or report success.

## 4. Report

Show the selected skills, the registry remote used for each branch, changed
files, validation results, and any blocking error. If this was a standalone
refresh and the service was running, restart it through the service mode that
actually owns this install and verify `data/ncl.sock` plus `bin/ncl groups
list`. When called inside `/update-nanoclaw`, leave restart and health checking
to that transaction.
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