[ aws . agent-toolkit ]

check-skill-updates

Description

Check installed AWS skills for available updates. Lists the version currently on disk alongside the latest version available. Only skills with an update available are listed, pass --all to list every installed skill. Nothing is downloaded or modified, run aws agent-toolkit update-skill to apply an update. By default it checks skills for all detected agents, use --agent to check only a specific tool.

Synopsis

  check-skill-updates
[--all]
[--agent <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]
[--cli-error-format <value>]
[--help]

Options

--all (boolean) Include skills that are already up to date. By default only skills with an update available are listed.

--agent (string) The agentic tool to target. If not set, the operation applies to all detected tools. Valid values: claude-code, cline, codex, cursor, devin, gemini-cli, kiro, openclaw, opencode, pi, windsurf, universal.

Global Options

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination. If automatic pagination is disabled, the AWS CLI will only make one call, for the first page of results.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

• json
• text
• table
• yaml
• yaml-stream
• off

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

• on
• off
• auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

• base64
• raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--cli-error-format (string)

The formatting style for error output. By default, errors are displayed in enhanced format.

• legacy
• json
• yaml
• text
• table
• enhanced

--help (boolean)

Display help for the command/subcommand.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: To check installed skills for updates

The following check-skill-updates example lists the installed AWS skills that have a newer version available.

aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates

Output:

{
    "skills": [
        {
            "agent": "Kiro",
            "name": "aws-serverless",
            "path": "/Users/username/.kiro/skills/aws-serverless/SKILL.md",
            "installedVersion": "v1",
            "latestVersion": "v2",
            "updateAvailable": true
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Getting started in the AWS Agent Toolkit User Guide.

Example 2: To check for updates when every installed skill is up to date

The following check-skill-updates example shows the output when no updates are available.

aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates

Output:

{
    "skills": []
}

For more information, see Getting started in the AWS Agent Toolkit User Guide.

Example 3: To list every installed skill

The following check-skill-updates example uses --all to include skills that are already up to date.

aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates \
    --all

Output:

{
    "skills": [
        {
            "agent": "Kiro",
            "name": "aws-cloudformation",
            "path": "/Users/username/.kiro/skills/aws-cloudformation/SKILL.md",
            "installedVersion": "v2",
            "latestVersion": "v2",
            "updateAvailable": false
        },
        {
            "agent": "Kiro",
            "name": "aws-serverless",
            "path": "/Users/username/.kiro/skills/aws-serverless/SKILL.md",
            "installedVersion": "v1",
            "latestVersion": "v2",
            "updateAvailable": true
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Getting started in the AWS Agent Toolkit User Guide.

Example 4: To check skills for a specific agent

The following check-skill-updates example checks only the skills installed for Kiro.

aws agent-toolkit check-skill-updates \
    --agent kiro

Output:

{
    "skills": [
        {
            "agent": "Kiro",
            "name": "aws-serverless",
            "path": "/Users/username/.kiro/skills/aws-serverless/SKILL.md",
            "installedVersion": "v1",
            "latestVersion": "v2",
            "updateAvailable": true
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Getting started in the AWS Agent Toolkit User Guide.