swain-update

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Update swain skills to the latest version. Use when the user says 'update swain', 'upgrade swain', 'pull latest swain', or wants to refresh their swain skills installation. Runs the skills package manager (npx) with a git-clone fallback, then invokes swain-config to reconcile any governance changes.

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Sourcecristoslc/swain

Added on2026-03-09

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add cristoslc/swain swain-update

SKILL.md Content

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Update Swain

Update the local installation of swain skills to the latest version, then reconcile governance configuration.

Step 1 — Detect current installation

Check whether

.claude/skills/

contains any

swain-*

directories:

bash

ls -d .claude/skills/swain-* 2>/dev/null

If no swain skill directories are found, inform the user this appears to be a fresh install rather than an update, then continue anyway — the steps below work for both cases.

Step 2 — Update via npx

Run the skills package manager to pull the latest swain skills:

bash

npx skills add cristoslc/swain

If

npx

fails (command not found, network error, or non-zero exit), fall back to a direct git clone:

bash

tmp=$(mktemp -d)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cristoslc/swain.git "$tmp/swain"
cp -r "$tmp/swain/skills/"* .claude/skills/
rm -rf "$tmp"

Step 3 — Reconcile governance

Invoke the swain-config skill. This checks whether

AGENTS.md

, context files, and governance rules need updating based on any changes in the new skill versions. The skill is idempotent, so running it after every update is always safe.

Step 4 — Report

List the installed swain skill directories and extract each skill's version from its

SKILL.md

frontmatter:

bash

for skill in .claude/skills/swain-*/SKILL.md; do
  name=$(grep '^name:' "$skill" | head -1 | sed 's/name: *//')
  version=$(grep 'version:' "$skill" | head -1 | sed 's/.*version: *//')
  echo "  $name  v$version"
done

Show the user the list and confirm the update is complete.

swain-update

NPX Install

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SKILL.md Content

Update Swain

Step 1 — Detect current installation

Step 2 — Update via npx

Step 3 — Reconcile governance

Step 4 — Report