mstack-upgrade
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Updates MStack — git pull plus setup for clone installs, or points marketplace installs at /plugin marketplace update. User-invoked only.
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2 rules. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
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- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 17
Git clone: run bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mstack-upgrade", which pulls --ff-only, lists the changed skills and references, and re-runs …
- Distinctive: line 27
Upgrading mid-paper unannounced: If a paper folder is in active use, surface the changeset first so the user can opt in.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
/mstack:mstack-upgrade
Stage: power · Voice: maintenance
Procedure
- Detect the install: does
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.gitexist? - Git clone: run
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/mstack-upgrade", which pulls--ff-only, lists the changed skills and references, and re-runssetupfor permissions and PATH. Summarize previous version → new version and what changed. - Marketplace install (no
.git; the plugin cache is a managed copy, not a repo): do notgit pull; it cannot work there. - Either way, the files on disk are not the loaded skills. Tell the user to run
/plugin marketplace update mstackand then restart Claude Code, which is what reloads them. A pull alone changes nothing in the running session.
Outputs
- Summary: install mode, previous → new version (from
.claude-plugin/plugin.json), the changed skills and references, and the reload-and-restart step.
Anti-patterns
- Upgrading mid-paper unannounced. If a paper folder is in active use, surface the changeset first so the user can opt in.
git pullin the plugin cache. A marketplace install is not a checkout; only/plugin marketplace updateworks there.- Reporting an upgrade as done after a pull. Until the plugin is updated and Claude Code restarted, the session is still running the old skills.
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