| name | output-dev-upgrade-prompt-models |
| description | Bulk-upgrade the model field across .prompt files to the latest version of each prompt's existing family. Use when prompt models have drifted (eg sonnet-4 → sonnet-4-6), after a long pause between framework updates, or as part of a periodic model-freshness pass. Within-family only — never changes provider or tier. |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash","Read","Edit","Glob"] |
Upgrade Prompt Models In-Place
Walks every .prompt file in a project (or scoped subtree), classifies each model into its provider+family bucket, looks up the latest stable model in that bucket via the output-dev-model-selection snapshot, and rewrites the model: line. Provider and family tier are preserved — a Haiku stays a Haiku, an Anthropic stays an Anthropic.
This skill explicitly does not swap providers or escalate tiers (eg Haiku → Sonnet). Those are deliberate human decisions handled separately.
When to invoke
- A periodic refresh: "upgrade all my prompt models to the latest"
- After a long break between framework updates, where dated snapshot IDs (eg
claude-sonnet-4-20250514) have aged out
- Right after creating a new project from the CLI scaffolder, to pull every templated default forward to the current best
Workflow
Step 1 — Discover
Find every .prompt file under the target scope. Default scope is the project's src/ tree; the user may scope to a single workflow.
Step 2 — Parse current model
For each file, read the YAML frontmatter (between the first pair of --- lines) and pull out provider: and model:.
Step 3 — Classify family
Match the existing model into a family bucket. Family is preserved across the upgrade.
| Pattern | Family |
|---|
claude-opus-* | anthropic-opus |
claude-sonnet-* | anthropic-sonnet |
claude-haiku-* | anthropic-haiku |
gpt-*-pro | openai-pro |
gpt-*-mini | openai-mini |
gpt-*-nano | openai-nano |
gpt-N.M (no suffix) | openai-default |
gemini-*-flash-lite* | google-flash-lite |
gemini-*-flash* | google-flash |
gemini-*-pro* | google-pro |
If a model doesn't match any pattern, skip the file and log a warning. Do not guess.
Step 4 — Look up latest in family
For each prompt, find the latest stable model in the same family by following output-dev-model-selection — fetch its snapshot, apply its filter rules (skip preview/alpha/beta, prefer unversioned aliases), and translate the chosen id to prompt-file form.
Use this family → snapshot-key + id regex map to pin the lookup to the existing tier:
| Family | Snapshot key | id regex |
|---|
anthropic-opus | anthropic | claude-opus- |
anthropic-sonnet | anthropic | claude-sonnet- |
anthropic-haiku | anthropic | claude-haiku- |
openai-pro | openai | -pro$ |
openai-default | openai | ^openai/gpt-[0-9.]+$ |
openai-mini | openai | -mini$ |
openai-nano | openai | -nano$ |
google-pro | google | -pro (excluding -flash) |
google-flash | google | -flash$|-flash-[0-9] |
google-flash-lite | google | -flash-lite |
If no stable match exists for a family (only pre-release entries available), surface that to the user and skip the file rather than guessing or downgrading to a different family.
Bail loudly on a failed snapshot. If the snapshot fetch itself returned nothing — network down, gateway shape changed, curl or jq missing — abort the run before Step 5. Do not continue with an empty snapshot and report "no upgrades needed", because that lies: the prompts weren't actually checked. Tell the user the snapshot fetch failed, point them at the manual-fallback steps in output-dev-model-selection, and exit.
Step 5 — Diff & confirm
Build a per-file report comparing the current model to the resolved latest:
src/workflows/foo/prompts/bar@v1.prompt claude-sonnet-4-20250514 → claude-sonnet-4-6
src/workflows/foo/prompts/baz@v1.prompt claude-haiku-4-5 ✓ already latest
Print the full report. Wait for explicit user confirmation before writing. In CI / non-interactive contexts, default to dry-run.
Step 6 — Edit
For each confirmed file, edit only the YAML frontmatter:
- Replace the
model: line with the resolved latest ID.
- If a
# current as of YYYY-MM-DD … comment is present (the convention used in output-dev-prompt-file examples and CLI scaffolds), update its date to today's (date +%Y-%m-%d). Match the comment by the literal current as of prefix and only rewrite the date — leave the trailing text intact.
- Leave
provider:, temperature:, maxTokens:, providerOptions:, and the message body untouched.
Refreshing the dated comment in the same edit keeps the "as of" convention coherent — without it, an upgraded prompt would have a fresh model paired with a stale date.
Step 7 — Verify
After the batch:
- Spot-check a handful of files to confirm the YAML still has a frontmatter delimiter and message body.
- Run the project's lint and build (
pnpm run lint, pnpm run build:packages from the repo root).
The Output SDK doesn't validate prompt model IDs at build time (sdk/llm/src/ai_model.js) — invalid IDs only surface at first run. If smoke-tests are available, run at least one workflow per upgraded family.
Caveats
- Within-family only. This skill never upgrades Sonnet → Opus, never swaps Anthropic for OpenAI. To change tier or provider, edit prompts manually or use
output-dev-prompt-file.
- Dated snapshots get bumped. A pin like
claude-sonnet-4-20250514 becomes the unversioned alias claude-sonnet-4-6. If the pin was load-bearing for reproducibility, surface that and skip the file.
@vertex and bedrock namespace suffixes. Models like claude-sonnet-4-20250514@vertex or anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0 need manual upgrade. The AI Gateway listing covers direct provider IDs only.- Models.dev pricing lag. Even after the upgrade,
calculateLLMCallCost may return total: null for the brand-new model until models.dev catches up. The runtime call still works.
See also
