Skill Store 33

Glab Check Update

Check for updates to glab and installed glab-managed GitLab Duo CLI and Orbit binaries.

by vince-winkintel · MIT

The skill

Check for updates to glab and installed glab-managed GitLab Duo CLI and Orbit binaries. Use when checking whether glab, Duo CLI, or Orbit is up to date or finding available updates. Triggers on update glab, check version, glab version, CLI update, Duo CLI update, orbit update.

glab check-update

Overview

Check for glab updates and report available updates for installed glab-managed GitLab Duo CLI and Orbit binaries.

Quick start

glab check-update --help

Update nudge behavior

glab check-update and its glab update alias always check when invoked explicitly. They now also report available updates for installed, glab-managed GitLab Duo CLI and Orbit binaries. Custom binary paths and managed binaries that are not installed are skipped. Automatic checks after other commands remain throttled to at most once every 24 hours and can be disabled with glab config set check_update false.

The update nudge is install-aware and agent-aware: when glab can detect the install method, it includes the matching upgrade command, and when a coding-agent environment is detected, it emits a compact bracketed line suitable for agents to relay instead of a multi-line human prompt. If the install method is unknown, expect only the release-notes URL rather than a guessed upgrade command.

Subcommands

This command has no subcommands.

Command reference

See references/commands.md for checksum-verified --help output.

Use this skill

Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: vince-winkintel/glab-check-update-15018102209.

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Details

Publisher
vince-winkintel
Category
Software Development › Source control & code review
License
MIT
Updated
2026-10-13

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