Official Communication

update

Sync tasks and refresh memory from your current activity. Use when pulling new assignments from your project tracker into TASKS.md, triaging stale or overdue tasks, filling memory gaps for unknown people or projects, or running a comprehensive scan to catch todos buried in chat and email.

This skill ships only metadata — no inline instructions. See the source repo for details.

Install this skill

One command (all agents)

Runs the npx skills CLI which auto-detects every AI coding agent you have installed (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Windsurf, Copilot, and 51 more).

npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/HEAD/productivity/skills/update

Alternative: shorthand form

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update

Install to a specific agent

Pick the agent you use. The CLI writes the skill to that agent's standard skill directory.

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent claude-code

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent cursor

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent codex

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent opencode

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent github-copilot

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill update --agent windsurf

Manual install (no CLI)

Prefer to skip the CLI? Clone the repo and drop the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.git

cp -r knowledge-work-plugins/productivity/skills/update ~/.claude/skills/

For other agents, replace ~/.claude/skills/ with their skill directory — see the full list.

Use it

Once installed, ask your agent to "use the update skill" or describe what you want (e.g. "Sync tasks and refresh memory from your current activity. Use when pulling new a"). Most agents auto-discover the skill from its SKILL.md description — no slash command needed.

Requires: Node.js 18+ for npx skills. Skill files are MIT-style permissive by default — check the source repo for the actual license.

SKILL.md source

---
name: update
description: Sync tasks and refresh memory from your current activity. Use when pulling new assignments from your project tracker into TASKS.md, triaging stale or overdue tasks, filling memory gaps for unknown peo
---