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Updates chosen or all Nix flake inputs, checks the result with nix flake check and a system rebuild, fixes warnings, then offers to commit.
SKILL.md written in Chinese; this summary is our English description.
Install Nix Flake Updater
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updater --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .claude/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .claude/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updaterType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updater --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .agents/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .agents/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updater --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .cursor/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .cursor/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git --path .agents/skills/nix-flake-updater--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updater --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .gemini/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .gemini/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updaterInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .github/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .github/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Ruixi-rebirth/flakes nix-flake-updater --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater .opencode/skills/nix-flake-updater && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "nix-flake-updater" agent skill from https://github.com/Ruixi-rebirth/flakes/tree/main/.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater into .opencode/skills/nix-flake-updater/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "nix-flake-updater", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
nix-flake-updater- GitHub stars
- 100
- Token cost
- ~469 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 173 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. scripts)
- Skills in repo
- 5
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
Updates chosen or all Nix flake inputs, checks the result with nix flake check and a system rebuild, fixes warnings, then offers to commit.
- Works in 6 steps: 识别 Inputs → 用户选择 → 执行更新 → …
- Bumping every flake.lock input in a NixOS configuration
- SKILL.md covers 工作流程 and 资源
- Runs Shell scripts from its folder; calls nix
What it does
The skill walks the agent through refreshing flake.lock in a NixOS configuration. A bundled script, scripts/update_flake.sh, lists the inputs found in flake.nix and runs the update, and the agent asks which inputs you want to bump or whether to update all of them.
Verification is mandatory. The agent runs nix flake check and treats warnings about renamed, replaced, deprecated or unknown options as stop signs even when the exit code is 0, fixing the configuration before it rebuilds. The rebuild goes through a separate nixos-rebuild skill, and any failure starts a loop of reading the message, finding the cause, editing the config and retrying. Once the build is clean it asks whether to commit, handing off to a git-workflow skill with messages such as chore: update flake inputs. The SKILL.md itself is written in Chinese.
When your agent uses it
- Bumping every flake.lock input in a NixOS configuration
- Updating a few chosen flake inputs rather than all of them
- Fixing renamed or deprecated options that surface after an input update
- Verifying a lock-file update with nix flake check and a rebuild before committing
Example prompts
- “Update all my flake inputs, rebuild the system and tell me if anything breaks.”
- “List the inputs in flake.nix and let me choose which ones to update.”
- “The flake check shows a renamed option warning after the update, so fix it and rebuild.”
Requirements
- Nix with a NixOS flake.nix configuration
- The nixos-rebuild skill's rebuild-wrapper.sh script
- Git, for the optional commit
Workflow steps
6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- 识别 Inputs
- 用户选择
- 执行更新
- 验证与修正（关键步骤）
- 故障排除与修正循环
- 提交更改
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ad88a12. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
nix
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Nix Flake Updater loads about 469 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 173 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 173 words (~469 tokens).
“本 Skill 自动化了更新 Nix flake inputs、通过系统重建验证更改以及提交更新的过程。”
- name
- nix-flake-updater
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file (scripts) in .agents/skills/nix-flake-updater of Ruixi-rebirth/flakes.
- SKILL.md
- scripts/update_flake.sh
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ad88a12
Compare with similar skills
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| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nix Flake Updater this skillRuixi-rebirth/flakes | 100 | — | ~469 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Update .NET Distro Packagesdotnet/core | 22k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| PR Bumpakitaonrails/my-skills | 216 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| CI Triageandymai/brepjs | 115 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Ghostty Submodule and GhosttyKit Workflowmanaflow-ai/cmux | 28k | 1 repos | ~580 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| GitVersion .NET DevelopmentGitTools/GitVersion | 3.1k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Nix Flake Updater
What does Nix Flake Updater do?
Updates chosen or all Nix flake inputs, checks the result with nix flake check and a system rebuild, fixes warnings, then offers to commit. lock in a NixOS configuration.nix and runs the update, and the agent asks which inputs you want to bump or whether to update all of them.
When should I use Nix Flake Updater?
Nix Flake Updater fits situations like: bumping every flake.lock input in a NixOS configuration; updating a few chosen flake inputs rather than all of them; fixing renamed or deprecated options that surface after an input update; verifying a lock-file update with nix flake check and a rebuild before committing.
How do I install Nix Flake Updater in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater in Ruixi-rebirth/flakes) into .claude/skills/nix-flake-updater in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Nix Flake Updater in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/nix-flake-updater in Ruixi-rebirth/flakes) into .agents/skills/nix-flake-updater in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Nix Flake Updater in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Ruixi-rebirth/flakes --skill nix-flake-updater -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/nix-flake-updater, .gemini/skills/nix-flake-updater, .github/skills/nix-flake-updater and .opencode/skills/nix-flake-updater in your project.
What does Nix Flake Updater need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Nix Flake Updater needs a shell for the scripts in its folder and the command-line tools its instructions call (nix). Our summary lists: Nix with a NixOS flake.nix configuration; The nixos-rebuild skill's rebuild-wrapper.sh script; Git, for the optional commit.
Does Nix Flake Updater access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Nix Flake Updater safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.
What licence does Nix Flake Updater use?
No licence was found for Nix Flake Updater or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Nix Flake Updater use?
About 469 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Nix Flake Updater?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Nix Flake Updater: Update .NET Distro Packages (dotnet/core, 22k stars), PR Bump (akitaonrails/my-skills, 216 stars), CI Triage (andymai/brepjs, 115 stars) and Ghostty Submodule and GhosttyKit Workflow (manaflow-ai/cmux, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Nix Flake Updater?
Ruixi-rebirth (a GitHub user) maintains it in Ruixi-rebirth/flakes, which has 100 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.
Source: Ruixi-rebirth/flakes on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.