are-update

SkillFiles & storage

Incrementally update documentation for changed files

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the are-update skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by geoloeg-ist/agents-reverse-engineer in .claude/skills/are-update/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Update documentation for files that changed since last run.

Steps

  1. Read version: Read .claude/ARE-VERSION → store as $VERSION. Show the user: agents-reverse-engineer v$VERSION

  2. Run the update command in the background using run_in_background: true:

    npx agents-reverse-engineer@$VERSION update --backend claude $ARGUMENTS
    
  3. Monitor progress by polling the latest progress log:

    • Wait ~15 seconds (use sleep 15 in Bash), then use Glob to find the latest .agents-reverse-engineer/progress-*.log file, and Read it (use the offset parameter to read only the last ~20 lines for long files)
    • Show the user a brief progress update (e.g. "12/30 files updated, ~5m remaining")
    • Check whether the background task has completed using TaskOutput with block: false
    • Repeat until the background task finishes
    • Important: Keep polling even if no progress log exists yet (the command takes a few seconds to start writing)
  4. On completion, read the full background task output and summarize:

    • Files updated
    • Files unchanged
    • Any orphaned docs cleaned up

Options:

  • --uncommitted: Include staged but uncommitted changes
  • --dry-run: Show what would be updated without writing
  • --eval: Namespace output by backend.model for side-by-side comparison
  • --concurrency N: Control number of parallel AI calls (default: auto)
  • --fail-fast: Stop on first file analysis failure
  • --debug: Show AI prompts and backend details
  • --trace: Enable concurrency tracing to .agents-reverse-engineer/traces/

Signals

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Aug 2026
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Source
github.com/geoloeg-ist/agents-reverse-engineer