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java-upgrade

80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By github/awesome-copilot (GitHub) · coding · 41,001 stars · scanned at commit 227949a

Upgrade a Java project to a newer JDK (11 to 17, 17 to 21, 21 to 25) and adopt the new language and library features. Detects the current Java version from the build files, then loads only the matching per-version guide. Use when the user asks to upgrade Java, modernize Java code, or adopt records, sealed classes, pattern matching, virtual threads or other new Java features. For automated end-to-end upgrades see the modernize-java plugin.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'java-upgrade' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'java-upgrade' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named java-upgrade already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '227949a7542a55d2155c00e7cdb998d9a0fee4f3' -- 'skills/java-upgrade' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/java-upgrade' ~/.agents/skills/'java-upgrade' && 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/'java-upgrade' ~/.claude/skills/'java-upgrade' (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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