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🦋 glab-skills-update 🦋

okay bestie, this is the glab(1) page for glab-skills-update — manual name folded in right at the top like a lil name tag 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

glab-skills-update — update installed agent skills to the current shipped version. (EXPERIMENTAL)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

glab skills update [name] [flags]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea: it re-fetches installed agent skills from their source — either bundled in this glab binary or from the curated remote registry — and overwrites the on-disk copy if it differs. no cap.

By default, it updates only the named skill in every well-known location it's installed: the current project's .agents/skills/ and the user-scope ~/.agents/skills/. Want every installed skill in those locations updated? use --all, bestie.

Skills whose on-disk content already matches the source are left alone. we love a no-op that respects the vibes 💅

Skills installed via glab skills install --path are not considered — update only knows about the two well-known locations. iykyk.

⚠️ this feature is an experiment and is not ready for production use. it might be unstable or removed at any time. for more info, see https://docs.gitlab.com/policy/development_stages_support/. 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --all[=false] — update every installed skill. yes, all of them, main character energy ✨

🫶 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🫶

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command. your fave lil helper 💜

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

# Update the bundled glab skill in every location it is installed
glab skills update glab

# Update every installed skill
glab skills update --all

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• glab-skills(1)

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