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update-gaia
84 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.
By gaia-harness/gaia (GitHub) · coding · 26 stars · scanned at commit c4a509b
Pulls the latest GAIA release into this project without clobbering customizations, with a three-way merge per file using .gaia/manifest.json classes. Trigger when the user clicks the statusline `🚀 /update-gaia` indicator or asks "update GAIA", "pull the latest GAIA", "apply the new GAIA release".
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.
Found in 34 places.
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- .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 69
gh release list --repo gaia-harness/gaia --limit 1 --json tagName --jq '.[0].tagName' - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 77
curl -fsSL https://api.github.com/repos/gaia-harness/gaia/releases/latest | jq -r .tag_name - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 100
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-branch-state.sh classify --tag <LATEST_TAG> --latest <LATEST> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 118
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-branch-state.sh classify --tag <LATEST_TAG> --latest <LATEST> --branch <current branch> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 130
bash .gaia/scripts/update-claim.sh origin-version --tree <main checkout path> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 142
bash .gaia/scripts/update-decisions.sh check --file <starting checkout>/.gaia/update-decisions.json - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 150
bash .gaia/scripts/update-decisions.sh deferred-tags --file <starting checkout>/.gaia/update-decisions.json - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 156
bash .gaia/scripts/update-decisions.sh deferred --file <starting checkout>/.gaia/update-decisions.json - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 174
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-preflight.sh refuse-1x --baseline <BASELINE> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 188
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-preflight.sh verify-bundles --baseline <BASELINE> --latest-tag <LATEST_TAG> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 207
bash <LATEST_DIR>/.gaia/scripts/toolchain-check.sh - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 217
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-preflight.sh select-notes --latest-dir <LATEST_DIR> --baseline <BASELINE> --latest <LATEST> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 233
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-preflight.sh changelog --baseline <BASELINE> --latest <LATEST> --latest-tag <LATEST_TAG> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 258
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-branch-state.sh add-worktree --branch <branch> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 283
bash <main checkout path>/.gaia/scripts/provision-wait.sh --tree <worktree path> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 295
bash .gaia/scripts/update-gaia-preflight.sh prune --baseline <BASELINE> --latest-tag <LATEST_TAG> - .claude/skills/update-gaia/SKILL.md, line 313
bash <main checkout path>/.gaia/scripts/update-gaia-drift.sh --features <LATEST_DIR>/.gaia/setup-features.json
and 14 more places
Sends data to these websites: api.github.com
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.
Found in 1 place.
Changes files outside its own folder
The author does not mention this.
Found in 3 places.
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'update-gaia' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'update-gaia' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named update-gaia already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/gaia-harness/gaia' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'c4a509b34c3f25df36a616a531decdfd57baa29c' -- '.claude/skills/update-gaia' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.claude/skills/update-gaia' ~/.agents/skills/'update-gaia' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'update-gaia' ~/.claude/skills/'update-gaia' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|
| 2026-11-13 | c4a509b | 84 |
| 2026-11-09 | 360fd9b | 84 |
| 2026-11-07 | 88786e5 | 84 |