Update Open Dough
SkillDev toolsApply the latest released Open Dough guidance from this project's recorded source, or from a supplied repository URL on first install. Use when the user asks to update Open Dough or invokes dough-update.
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Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.
Then ask your AI: use the Update Open Dough skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by nerds-odd-e/doughnut in .agents/skills/dough-update/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Install and update the latest numeric Open Dough release for Codex, Cursor, and
Claude Code together. Codex and Cursor share .agents/skills/; Claude Code
uses .claude/skills/. The running tool is only the entry context used to find
the recorded source for a no-URL update.
Pin that release with Git before any repository script runs, then call the
inspected snapshot's helper. Do not reimplement the helper's comparison or
installation decisions.
Local-guidance replacement is not supported by dough-update. Do not inspect, assess, prepare, repair callers for, or remove the target project's local guidance. Do not fetch a source or run an installer for such a request. A one-time adoption is project-specific work outside this reusable updater. Ordinary Open Dough release updates remain available from the recorded source.
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Capture the target project's absolute path before fetching anything. Use this project unless the user supplied another target. Keep this target distinct from the Open Dough source fetched below.
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If the user asked to install or update a specific version, tag, or branch, stop. Say
Open Dough installs and updates the latest numeric release only. Requested-version updates are not supported.Do not fetch or write. -
Identify the running tool from the current host. Do not infer it from which skill directories exist. Pass it as the installer platform hint, then install the same released payload into every native root:
Running tool --platformInstalled files Codex codex(omitting--platformis equivalent).agents/skills/Cursor cursor.agents/skills/(shared with Codex)Claude Code claude.claude/skills/The release payload includes skill entrypoints and supporting files declared by the pinned release's installer and baseline-comparison helper. Treat that release as authoritative: payload skills may be added between releases, so a path absent from the installed release is not by itself a reason to stop. The numeric
VERSIONrecord and the recordedSOURCElive beside eachdough-update/SKILL.md. Installation writes the sameSOURCEfrom the supplied repository URL or local path, thenVERSION, in both physical roots. Ordinary no-URL updates reuse the invoking root's recordedSOURCE. -
Resolve the Open Dough source from the invoking root. If that updater destination already exists and has a usable recorded
dough-update/SOURCE, use that source. For an ordinary update, if that record is missing or unusable, stop and report that ordinary update cannot establish the recorded baseline. Do not ask for a URL, do not treat the destination as a first install, and do not substitute the target project's remote or local working-tree content. If the destination does not exist, use the repository URL supplied by the user; if none was supplied, ask for it before proceeding. First installation takes a supplied source. Explicit force uses the recorded SOURCE when present; otherwise it takes a supplied--url. -
Make a fresh temporary directory. Using only Git, pin the highest numeric release before any repository script runs. Do not clone the default branch, and do not execute
install.shoropen-dough-release.shfrom the working tree or from an unpinned clone.a. Run
git ls-remote --tags -- <source-url>. KeepvMAJOR.MINOR.PATCHtags. When both a tag object and a peeled^{}line exist, use the peeled commit. Select the highest version by comparing each component as a decimal integer string; do not use shell arithmetic. b.git initthe work directory,git fetch --depth 1 <source-url> <commit>, and check out that commit detached. Confirmgit rev-parse HEADequals the peeled commit. c. Inspect that snapshot'ssrc/install/open-dough-release.sh,src/install/open-dough-release-apply.sh,install.sh, the helpers they source (includingsrc/install/open-dough-register-hooks.sh,src/install/open-dough-register-hooks.mjs, andsrc/install/open-dough-register-hooks-merge.mjswhen present), and every release payload source they declare undersrc/skills/. d. Run the inspected helper, quoting paths. Codex may omit--platform. For an ordinary update of a recorded installation, runbash <snapshot>/src/install/open-dough-release.sh apply --target <captured-project> --platform <tool> --checkout <snapshot>and do not pass--url; the helper readsSOURCE. For a first installation, also pass--url <source-url>. Pass--forceonly when the user explicitly authorized a forced reinstall. When the invoking root has a usable SOURCE, omit--url; otherwise include--url <source-url>. If apply reports that HEAD is not the pinned latest, stop. Do not fetch or check out replacement files after inspection. Proceed only if the inspected files write solely to the release-declared payload paths under both native skill roots, each updater'sSOURCEandVERSIONrecords, and the managed host-hook settings they register (.cursor/hooks.jsonand.claude/settings.json) in the captured target project, preserving distributable source, unrelated project files, unrelated settings entries, and home guidance. Registration is an install/update concern; after apply, observation readiness and observer start/stop belong to execute-plan and must not rewrite those settings. -
Trust the helper's comparison. An ordinary update without a supplied URL fetches the recorded VERSION tag as data and compares the installation with the payload declared by that recorded release before any skip or replacement. Payload paths newly added by the release must be absent before the helper may add them; a pre-existing collision refuses without writes. Equal recorded versions that still match that baseline must not invoke
install.shor write the selected files; untagged source changes alone do not require writes. Changed or missing managed files, or an unavailable recorded tag, refuse without writing even when the recorded version equals latest. An older recorded installation is replaced with latest only when those files are unchanged. If ordinary update cannot establish that baseline — missing or unusable SOURCE or VERSION, an unavailable recorded tag or source, baseline metadata mismatch, or changed or missing managed files — refuse without writing, forcing, or treating the destination as a first install. Explicit--forceskips that comparison and replaces the selected installation with latest, including edited, incomplete, equal, or newer files, writing the payload then SOURCE then VERSION. A supplied-URL missing selected record advances directly to latest. A verified newer selected record is preserved with no downgrade; an unverifiable newer record is unsupported without writes. A malformed selectedVERSIONis an error, not unknown. Fetch, tag, and invalid-highest release failures must not write the target or fall back to a lower release or branch. If replacement starts and then fails, report that installed files may be incomplete, that the last successful record was left unchanged, and that explicit--forcereinstall is the recovery path. -
Report the helper's source URL, release tag and commit, running tool and native skill root, all installed payload paths, previous version or unknown, and actual outcome. After a replacement, tell the user to start a fresh session in the same tool, then invoke
/dough-updatein Cursor or Claude Code, or$dough-updatein Codex, to use the updated guidance. Do not claim an update succeeded if fetching, validation, comparison, or installation failed. Manual reading of the taggedCHANGELOG.mdis sufficient; do not print changelog text here.
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