| name | claude-current |
| description | Stay current with Claude Code and Claude itself. Triggers on "what's new", "what can Claude Code do now", "is there a newer/better way", "update skull", "which model should I use", or before relying on any claim about a Claude Code feature, model, price, or limit. Checks the installed version, the live changelog, and the harness surface SKULL depends on — then reports only the deltas that matter for this project. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebFetch, WebSearch |
claude-current — check, then speak
Your knowledge of Claude Code has an expiry date, and the changelog moves weekly. Never assert a current
capability, model id, price, or limit from memory. This skill is the protocol for replacing memory with a
check — cheap, and it is the difference between advice that's true and advice that was true.
The one resident rule
Every version-sensitive claim SKULL makes should trace to docs/CLAUDE-SURFACE.md (a dated snapshot of
the harness we depend on) or to a live check. If those two disagree, the live source wins and the snapshot is
stale — fix it.
Run this forked
Discovery is context pollution: fetching a changelog dumps kilobytes you don't want resident for the rest of
the session. Run this pass in a forked subagent (context: fork) and bring back only the deltas — a few
lines, not the raw pages.
The check
- Version.
claude --version. The docs describe the latest build; the developer may be pinned. Below the
minimum a skill needs, say so and offer claude update.
- Changelog.
WebFetch https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog.md — pull only what is new since
their version AND relevant to this project. Skip the rest; never dump the whole log.
- Surface. Skim
docs/CLAUDE-SURFACE.md. If the changelog names something the snapshot contradicts or
omits (a new hook event, a moved doc URL, a model id, a tokenizer change), the snapshot is drifting.
- Claude itself. For "what's new" broadly,
WebFetch https://claude.com/blog for new models/features;
confirm anything load-bearing with WebSearch. One line each.
- SKULL. The skills are plain
.md; to update, git pull the repo and re-copy
skills/ agents/ commands/ into .claude/ (or offer to).
When you find drift, close it
A stale fact is a finding. Update docs/CLAUDE-SURFACE.md, bump its <!-- verified: YYYY-MM, cc <version> -->
stamp, and — if a skill hardcoded the now-wrong fact — fix the skill to reference the surface doc instead. The
monthly canary (.github/) files an issue when the changelog outruns the snapshot; this skill is how a human
resolves it.
Report
A tight, skimmable briefing: what changed, and why it matters for them. Two or three items, a line each.
Not a changelog transcript — a filtered delta.
Absorbs the old whats-new command (commands are legacy; skills are the forward path). Reads/writes
docs/CLAUDE-SURFACE.md. Pairs with model-router (which model, now) and token-economy (the tokenizer note).
