| name | update-skills |
| description | Refresh installed NanoClaw channel and provider payloads from their registry branches with fork-safe remote resolution and a blocking structured result. Use after updating NanoClaw or whenever installed channel/provider code may be stale. |
Update installed skills
Refresh the code carried by installed channel and provider skills. This does
not re-run credential setup, change .env, alter wiring, or restart services.
Run from the NanoClaw project root. Use ordinary conversation for any choice;
do not depend on a provider-specific question or skill-invocation tool.
1. Preflight and selection
Require a clean working tree:
git status --porcelain
If it is dirty, stop. Never mix a refresh with unrelated changes.
The default is every installed channel/provider. If the user asked for a
subset, pass its comma-separated names. Otherwise use all:
pnpm exec tsx scripts/update-skills.ts --skills all
The helper detects installed skills from the real channel/provider barrels. It
resolves each registry branch by checking configured remotes, so a fork whose
origin is the user's repo and whose official source is upstream works
without special handling. NANOCLAW_REGISTRY_REMOTE=<name> is an explicit
override and is validated before use.
2. Treat the JSON result as a gate
The command prints nanoclaw-skill-refresh/v1-shaped JSON fields with one
result per selected skill and exits nonzero unless every selected skill was
fully refreshed.
- Continue only when
success is true and every status is refreshed.
- A missing skill, missing structured apply contract, unresolved input, agent
fallback, fetch error, or dependency error is blocking.
- Never record a failed skill and continue toward an upgrade completion stamp.
- Preserve the full report in the update summary.
The refresh engine overwrites skill-owned registry files and advances exact
dependency/CLI-manifest pins. It skips prompts, operator walkthroughs, .env
writes, wiring, restarts, and ordinary build/test directives.
3. Validate the composed checkout
After a successful refresh:
pnpm run build
pnpm test
If files under container/agent-runner/src/ changed, also run:
pnpm exec tsc -p container/agent-runner/tsconfig.json --noEmit
If anything under container/ changed, update the install's agent image using
the source mode already selected in .env:
if grep -q '^NANOCLAW_HARDENED_IMAGE=true$' .env 2>/dev/null; then
./container/build.sh pull
else
./container/build.sh
fi
Any validation or image failure is blocking. Do not restart or report success.
4. Report
Show the selected skills, the registry remote used for each branch, changed
files, validation results, and any blocking error. If this was a standalone
refresh and the service was running, restart it through the service mode that
actually owns this install and verify data/ncl.sock plus bin/ncl groups list. When called inside /update-nanoclaw, leave restart and health checking
to that transaction.
