skillsaw Update

SkillDev tools

Update a repository to the newest skillsaw — upgrade the install, report new rules and their findings in your repo, and bump version pins (GitHub Action SHAs, Makefile targets, pre-commit hooks). Use when a new skillsaw release is out and you want its latest checks.

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 skillsaw Update skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by stbenjam/skillsaw in skills/skillsaw-update/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Update this repository from its installed skillsaw to the newest release: upgrade the local install, report which rules are new and what they find in this repository, and bump every pinned skillsaw version (GitHub Actions SHAs, Makefile targets, pre-commit hooks, container tags).

Workflow

Ask one routing question at a time and wait for the answer. An explicit choice in the user's request already counts as an answer. Read a reference only after its condition or a yes answer routes to it; do not read the reference to formulate the question. After completing it, return here. If the answer is no, continue to the next checkpoint without reading it. Carry forward the command prefixes, versions, rule lists, and changed-file list.

Resolve every references/... path relative to the directory containing this SKILL.md, never relative to the target repository or the process's current working directory. If this file was fetched from the web, resolve each reference against the parent URL of this file and fetch it from that sibling location.

Replace brace-delimited fields below with facts from the repository or scan; never show placeholders to the user, and render singular or plural wording naturally.

1. Upgrade to the newest version

Read versions. It records the installed and latest versions, captures the old rule list, upgrades the install (or selects the new command prefix), and verifies the result. Report both versions before offering changes.

2. Report new rules

Read new rules. It diffs the old and new rule lists, explains each added rule, and scans the repository with the new version so every new rule is presented with its actual findings here.

3. Update version pins

If the repository pins skillsaw anywhere (GitHub Actions workflows, Makefile targets, pre-commit hooks, container image tags), ask:

I found skillsaw pinned in {locations}. Bumping them to {latest} keeps CI and local runs on the version just installed. Should I update those pins?

If yes, read pins. If no, preserve the locations.

4. Triage findings from new rules

If the new version reports findings from added rules, read triage and present its summary table for confirmation before making changes. Carry the agreed buckets forward.

5. Verify the result

After all accepted routes finish, always read verification.

Signals

GitHub stars
66
Forks
15
Last commit
Sep 2026

ahel review

  • K1binfo
    installs-packages
  • K1binfo
    installs-packages (in references/01-versions.md)

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
skillsaw-update
Source
github.com/stbenjam/skillsaw