Explain how to keep installed skills up to date - #23
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Every install route is a snapshot of main as it was that day, and Claude Code disables marketplace auto-update by default for third-party marketplaces, so "every commit is a release" only reaches users who turn it on or update by hand. Add an Installation subsection that covers the Claude Code plugin (enable auto-update once, or the marketplace-update plus plugin-update pair), the skills CLI (npx skills update) and manual copies or symlinks. Also say the skills CLI "installs" rather than "copies": by default it keeps one canonical copy and symlinks each agent's directory to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
/plugin→ Marketplaces →owid-skills→ Enable auto-update) and gives the manual pairclaude plugin marketplace update owid-skills+claude plugin update owid@owid-skills, noting that the first alone does not update the plugin.skillsCLI:npx skills update(-g/-pfor scope).git pull.skillsCLI symlinks each agent directory to one canonical copy by default (--copyis the opt-in).Why
Nothing in the README said how updates reach users. The versionless-plugin model described under Development only works once a user has enabled auto-update or refreshes by hand.
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claude plugin update --helpandclaude plugin marketplace update --help.npx skills --help, plus an existingnpx skills addinstall on my machine (canonical.agents/skills/copy, symlinks from.claude/skills/,skills-lock.json).A sibling PR adds the same section to
owid/skills-private.🤖 Generated with Claude Code