lazyweb-update

Lazyweb Update

Use this skill for maintenance only: update the installed Lazyweb skill pack, reinstall the local skills, and verify the active clients can see the result. Do not run design research from here.

Check what's published first

Before reinstalling, check the latest version through the Lazyweb MCP. This runs against the user's Lazyweb account (so update usage is recorded) and tells them exactly what they'll get:

1. Read the installed version:

   cat "$HOME/.lazyweb/VERSION" 2>/dev/null || echo 0.0.0
   

2. Call the lazyweb_check_update MCP tool with installed_version set to that value, client set to the coding client you're running in (e.g. claude-code, cursor, codex), skill: "lazyweb-update", and version set to the installed version. It returns { installed, latest, update_available, install_hint } — tell the user the installed vs latest version and whether an update is available.
3. If the Lazyweb MCP is not available — a fresh or broken install is the usual reason someone runs this skill — skip the tool and compare directly, then proceed:

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aboul3ata/lazyweb-skill/main/VERSION
   

update_available tells the user what's new, but it does not gate the reinstall. The updater below reruns setup with --host all, which also repairs broken, stale, or newly-added client skill roots — a current VERSION does not mean those are in sync. So:

• If the user asked to update, reinstall, or sync Lazyweb (the normal case): run the updater below regardless of update_available. Even when already current, the reinstall brings every client skill root back in sync.
• Only if the user asked purely for a status check (e.g. "is there a Lazyweb update?"): report installed vs latest and stop without reinstalling.

Run the update

~/.lazyweb/bin/lazyweb-update is a trusted local binary the user already installed — it only refreshes the local checkout and reinstalls local skills. Do not stack up multiple permission gates around it: a single lightweight "Updating your local Lazyweb skills now." confirmation is enough (any client tool-approval prompt already covers the rest).

Use the bundled updater when available:

"$HOME/.lazyweb/bin/lazyweb-update" --host all --quiet

Use --host auto only when the user explicitly wants detected clients instead of every supported local skill root.

If that file is missing because the install is old, bootstrap once from GitHub. Use git fetch + git reset --hard, never git pull --ff-only: a plain pull cannot escape a non-main checkout (the "branch trap" that left users stamped current but stale), whereas a hard reset to origin/main always lands on the latest no matter what branch or dirty state the checkout is in. Fall back to a clean re-clone if the fetch/reset cannot complete:

set -euo pipefail
REPO="${LAZYWEB_SKILL_REPO:-https://github.com/aboul3ata/lazyweb-skill}"
TARGET="${LAZYWEB_SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.lazyweb/repos/lazyweb-skill}"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TARGET")"
if [ -d "$TARGET/.git" ] \
  && git -C "$TARGET" fetch --depth 1 origin main \
  && git -C "$TARGET" reset --hard FETCH_HEAD; then
  :
else
  rm -rf "$TARGET"
  git clone --depth 1 "$REPO" "$TARGET"
fi
"$TARGET/setup" --host all --quiet

The public installer remains:

curl -fsSL https://www.lazyweb.com/install.sh | bash

But for this skill, prefer the commands above because they explicitly reinstall every supported local skill root with --host all.

Verify

After the updater finishes:

1. Print the before and after git commit for ~/.lazyweb/repos/lazyweb-skill when available.

2. Assert the retired/legacy skill dirs are GONE from every detected skill root — not merely that lazyweb-update/SKILL.md exists. Trapped users keep invoking server-retired skills (e.g. lazyweb-design-research) precisely because the stale dir survived on disk. Check every root that exists (~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills, ~/.kiro/skills, ~/.factory/skills, ~/.slate/skills, ~/.hermes/skills), plus the two retired distribution channels: the legacy ~/.agents/skills root and the old Claude Code plugin install (~/.claude/plugins):

   # Read the focused slash-command set from the installed setup script so this
   # check can never drift from what setup actually installs. The fallback list
   # is only for broken installs with no repo checkout.
   FOCUSED="$(sed -n 's/^FOCUSED_SKILLS="\(.*\)"$/\1/p' \
     "$HOME/.lazyweb/repos/lazyweb-skill/setup" 2>/dev/null)"
   [ -n "$FOCUSED" ] || FOCUSED="lazyweb-design lazyweb-quick-search \
     lazyweb-explain-flow lazyweb-propose-ui-changes lazyweb-update"
   for root in "$HOME"/.claude/skills "$HOME"/.codex/skills \
     "$HOME"/.cursor/skills "$HOME"/.config/opencode/skills \
     "$HOME"/.kiro/skills "$HOME"/.factory/skills \
     "$HOME"/.slate/skills "$HOME"/.hermes/skills; do
     [ -d "$root" ] || continue
     # Any lazyweb-* dir outside the focused set is stale (this sweep subsumes
     # the old hardcoded legacy-name list).
     for d in "$root"/lazyweb-*/; do
       [ -e "$d" ] || continue
       name="$(basename "$d")"
       case " $FOCUSED " in
         *" $name "*) : ;;
         *) echo "STALE: ${d%/}" ;;
       esac
     done
   done
   # Legacy cross-agent roots: the installer no longer writes here at all, so
   # ANY lazyweb dir — including the `lazyweb` entry skill — is stale.
   for root in "$HOME"/.agents/skills; do
     for d in "$root"/lazyweb "$root"/lazyweb-*/; do
       [ -e "${d%/}" ] && echo "STALE: ${d%/}"
     done
   done
   # Retired Claude Code PLUGIN distribution: its cached copy re-surfaces old
   # skills as `lazyweb:*` slash commands until the plugin itself is removed.
   [ -e "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/lazyweb" ] \
     && echo "STALE: claude plugin cache ($HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/lazyweb)"
   grep -q '"lazyweb@lazyweb"' \
     "$HOME/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json" 2>/dev/null \
     && echo "STALE: claude plugin registration (lazyweb@lazyweb)"
   

3. If that prints any STALE: line, re-run the updater so setup's own prune passes (verify_prune, prune_legacy_skill_roots, prune_claude_plugin_install) remove them, then re-check:

   "$HOME/.lazyweb/bin/lazyweb-update" --host all --quiet
   

   setup --host all is idempotent and itself asserts the prune; if a dir still survives (permissions, etc.) tell the user the exact path to rm -rf by hand.

4. Run ~/.lazyweb/bin/lazyweb-update-check; it should print nothing when the installed version is current.

5. If Lazyweb MCP tools are available in the current client, run lazyweb_health.

6. Always tell the user to RESTART the client. Skills are loaded at client startup, so a disk-level prune does NOT fix the currently-running session — the old slash commands stay visible and invokable until restart. This is the one step that actually clears a trapped session; do not skip it even when the disk looks clean.

Summarize the updated commit/version, which clients were refreshed, whether any stale skill dirs were found and removed, and remind the user to restart the client so the changes take effect.