upgrade

name: upgrade description: Upgrade this wiki's scaffold files (CLAUDE.md, skills) to match the latest wikibones version from GitHub.

Upgrade scaffold

Bring this wiki's scaffold files up to date with the latest wikibones release.

How it works

The file .claude/scaffold-version records either a created:YYYY-MM-DD date (from initial scaffold creation) or a git commit SHA (from a previous upgrade). This skill fetches the latest scaffold from the wikibones GitHub repo, diffs what changed, and applies updates.

If .claude/scaffold-version doesn't exist, this wiki predates versioning — treat everything as potentially stale and do a full comparison.

Step 1: Get the latest commit SHA

LATEST=$(curl -fsS https://api.github.com/repos/carteakey/wikibones/commits/main 2>/dev/null \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['sha'])" 2>/dev/null)

If python3 is unavailable, use grep + cut:

LATEST=$(curl -fsS https://api.github.com/repos/carteakey/wikibones/commits/main 2>/dev/null \
  | grep '"sha"' | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4)

Read the current version:

BASE=$(cat .claude/scaffold-version 2>/dev/null || echo "")

Step 2: Determine what changed

If BASE is a 40-character SHA

Use the GitHub compare API, filtering for scaffold files:

curl -fsS "https://api.github.com/repos/carteakey/wikibones/compare/${BASE}...${LATEST}" \
  | python3 -c "
import sys, json
files = json.load(sys.stdin).get('files', [])
for f in files:
    name = f['filename']
    if name in ['CLAUDE.md', 'AGENTS.md', 'MANIFEST.md', 'llm-wiki.md', 'serve.py', 'requirements-viewer.txt'] \
       or name.startswith('.claude/skills/') \
       or name.startswith('templates/'):
        print(name)
"

If BASE is `created:...` or missing

Do a full comparison — fetch every scaffold file from GitHub and diff against local copies. See the fetch helper below.

Fetching files safely

Always download to a temp file first, validate it's not an error response, then move into place:

fetch_file() {
  local url="$1" dest="$2"
  local tmp=$(mktemp)
  if curl -fsS "$url" -o "$tmp" 2>/dev/null && [ -s "$tmp" ]; then
    mv "$tmp" "$dest"
    return 0
  else
    rm -f "$tmp"
    echo "WARN: failed to fetch $url"
    return 1
  fi
}

SCAFFOLD_BASE="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/carteakey/wikibones/main"

Scaffold file URLs

All scaffold files live at the root or in .claude/skills/ in the wikibones repo:

${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/CLAUDE.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/AGENTS.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/llm-wiki.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/serve.py
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/requirements-viewer.txt
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/ingest/SKILL.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/digest/SKILL.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/lint/SKILL.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/ingest-tweets/SKILL.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/sync-wikis/SKILL.md
${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/upgrade/SKILL.md

Step 3: Categorize and apply changes

Safe to overwrite (auto-apply)

These files are tooling or agent instructions that the user doesn't customize:

.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md — skill definitions (overwrite entirely, also add any new skills that didn't exist before)
AGENTS.md — cross-agent instructions
llm-wiki.md — reference document (read-only)
serve.py and requirements-viewer.txt — local wiki viewer tooling
templates/ — optional scaffold templates, safe to add or update unless the target has customized them locally

For new skills that didn't exist when the wiki was created, create the directory and download:

mkdir -p .claude/skills/new-skill-name
fetch_file "${SCAFFOLD_BASE}/.claude/skills/new-skill-name/SKILL.md" ".claude/skills/new-skill-name/SKILL.md"

Needs contextual merge (show diff, apply carefully)

These files contain user-specific content and must be merged, not overwritten:

CLAUDE.md — contains the wiki name and possibly user-added rules. Fetch the latest template, show what sections changed, and apply structural changes while preserving the wiki name and any custom additions.

For CLAUDE.md:

Fetch the latest template (it has {{WIKI_NAME}} as a placeholder)
Read the local CLAUDE.md to find the wiki name from the first heading
Show the diff of everything except the first heading
Apply new/changed sections while preserving the wiki name and user additions

Merge .gitignore entries

Ensure these entries exist (append any missing):

publish.json
.rebuild
**/.DS_Store

Skip — do not fetch or compare

.claude/settings.json — local agent settings, not a scaffold file
MANIFEST.md — live ingest state, user data; never overwrite
wiki/ — all wiki pages are user content
raw/ — immutable source documents

Step 4: Update the version marker

After applying all changes:

echo "$LATEST" > .claude/scaffold-version

Step 5: Report

Summarize what was updated:

Files overwritten (safe updates)
Files merged (with what changed)
New skills added
Any files that failed to fetch or had conflicts

Append to wiki/log.md:

## [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM] upgrade | scaffold updated to <short-sha>

Rules

Never touch wiki/ or raw/ content — this skill only updates infrastructure.
Always show CLAUDE.md changes before applying — the user may have custom rules.
Always use the safe fetch pattern — download to temp, validate, then move. Never curl > target directly.
If no .claude/scaffold-version exists, do a full comparison and let the user review everything. Write the version file after.