Meta Upgrade

Upgrade — Sync Skills & Templates from agentic-workflow

Compares the installed workflow skills and templates against the source agentic-workflow repo and offers selective upgrades.

Step 1: Locate Source Repo

1. Read workflow.json in the current project root
2. Resolve workflowRepo path (e.g., ../agentic-workflow)
3. If workflow.json doesn't exist or has no workflowRepo:
   • Ask the user for the path to the agentic-workflow repo
4. Verify the source repo exists and is accessible

Step 2: Compare Skills (Version-Aware)

5. Read the source catalog: <workflowRepo>/.claude/skills/meta-skill-catalog/catalog.json

6. Read the local catalog: .claude/skills/meta-skill-catalog/catalog.json

7. For each skill in the source catalog, compare versions:

   New skills (in source but not local):

   • List them with name, category, description, and version
   • Mark as "Available to install"

   Version comparison (in both catalogs):

   • Compare version (source) vs installed_version (local)
   • Categorize by semver difference:
     • up-to-date — same version
     • patch-available — bug fixes, safe to auto-apply
     • minor-available — new features, review recommended
     • major-available — breaking changes, review required
   • Read the source skill's CHANGELOG.md and show entries between installed and current version

   Ahead of source (local installed_version > source version):

   • This means local modifications exist
   • Check context/adaptations.md for tracked adaptations
   • Warn: "This skill has local modifications. Run /meta-contribute-back before upgrading to preserve changes."

   Local-only skills (in local but not source):

   • These are project-specific skills — leave them untouched
   • List as "Project-specific (no upstream)"

Step 3: Compare Templates

8. Resolve the docs repo path from workflow.json
9. Compare templates in <workflowRepo>/templates/ against <docsRepo>/templates/
10. For each template:
    • New: Template exists in source but not in docs repo
    • Updated: Content differs between source and docs repo
    • Unchanged: Identical

Step 4: Present Upgrade Report

11. Show the version-aware report:

### Workflow Upgrade Report

**Source:** <workflowRepo path>

#### Skills
| Skill | Installed | Current | Status |
|-------|-----------|---------|--------|
| meta-heartbeat | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 | minor-available |
| doc-prd | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | up-to-date |
| dev-tdd-backend | 1.0.0 | 1.2.0 | minor-available (2 changes) |
| dev-verification-backend | 1.0.0 | 2.0.0 | major-available ⚠ |
| my-custom-skill | — | — | project-specific |

#### Changelog for Updated Skills

**dev-tdd-backend** (1.0.0 → 1.2.0):
- 1.2.0: Added Aspire integration test handling
- 1.1.0: Added event sourcing test patterns

**dev-verification-backend** (1.0.0 → 2.0.0):
- 2.0.0: BREAKING — Verification phases restructured
  ⚠ Review required before upgrading

#### Adaptation Warnings
⚠ dev-tdd-backend has 1 local adaptation (Aspire integration tests)
  Run /meta-contribute-back dev-tdd-backend before upgrading to preserve changes.

Step 5: Apply Updates (After Approval)

12. Ask the user what to upgrade:

    • "Update all" — apply all updates and install new skills
    • "Update skills only" — skip templates
    • "Update templates only" — skip skills
    • "Let me pick" — interactive selection

13. For each approved update:

    Skill updates:

    • Back up the current SKILL.md to SKILL.md.bak (overwrite previous backup)
    • Copy the new SKILL.md from the source repo
    • Copy any new supporting files (references/, scripts/)
    • Update the local catalog entry
    • Update installed_version and installed_date in the local catalog entry

    Skill installs (new):

    • Create the skill directory
    • Copy SKILL.md and supporting files
    • Add to local catalog

    Template updates:

    • Copy the new template to the docs repo
    • Note: existing generated documents are NOT affected (only the template changes)

    Template installs (new):

    • Copy to docs repo templates directory
    • Create the output directory if it doesn't exist

14. Update the local catalog's updated date

    • Copy the skill's CHANGELOG.md from source (for local reference during future upgrades)

Step 6: Post-Upgrade Verification

15. Run a quick check:
    • All installed skills have valid SKILL.md files
    • Catalog matches what's on disk
    • No orphaned skill directories
16. Report any issues found

Step 7: Update Daily Memory

17. Log the upgrade in today's daily memory:
    • What was upgraded (skills, templates)
    • What was newly installed
    • What was skipped

Flags

Safety Rules

• Never overwrite project-specific skills (skills not in the source catalog)
• Never modify context files (SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md) — those are personal
• Never modify workflow.json — that's project-specific config
• Never modify CLAUDE.md — bootstrap handles that, not upgrade
• Always back up before overwriting (SKILL.md.bak)
• Always show changes before applying — no silent updates