Update Framework - Complete Framework Synchronization Meta-Skill

Sync all framework components (Pillars, Rules, Workflow, Skills) between projects in one command.

Overview

This meta-skill orchestrates all 4 update-* skills for complete framework synchronization:

What it does: 0. (NEW) Conducts tech stack questionnaire for intelligent filtering

1. Calls update-pillars, update-rules, update-workflow, update-skills in sequence
2. Aggregates analysis from all 4 components
3. Shows unified diff preview (with filter summary)
4. Confirms once before syncing everything
5. Executes all 4 syncs with smart filtering
6. Reports comprehensive summary

Why it's needed: Monthly framework upgrades require syncing 4 components. Running 4 separate commands with 4 confirmations takes ~2 minutes. This meta-skill does it in one command with one confirmation in ~30 seconds.

When to use:

• Monthly framework upgrades (pull all updates)
• Initial project setup (push framework to new project)
• Complete framework sync needed
• Cross-project consistency enforcement

AI Execution Instructions

CRITICAL: Task creation and skill delegation

When executing /update-framework, AI MUST follow this pattern:

Step 1: Create 7 or 8 Subtasks

# Create all tasks at the start
tasks = {
    "profile": TaskCreate(
        subject="Detect tech stack profile",
        description="Load profile from .framework-install or run questionnaire",
        activeForm="Detecting profile..."
    ),
    "validate": TaskCreate(
        subject="Validate source and target paths",
        description="Verify ai-dev and target project exist",
        activeForm="Validating paths..."
    ),
    "pillars": TaskCreate(
        subject="Sync Pillars via update-pillars",
        description="Call /update-pillars with profile filters",
        activeForm="Syncing Pillars..."
    ),
    "rules": TaskCreate(
        subject="Sync Rules via update-rules",
        description="Call /update-rules with profile-based filters",
        activeForm="Syncing Rules..."
    ),
    "workflow": TaskCreate(
        subject="Sync Workflow via update-workflow",
        description="Call /update-workflow",
        activeForm="Syncing Workflow..."
    ),
    "skills": TaskCreate(
        subject="Sync Skills via update-skills",
        description="Call /update-skills",
        activeForm="Syncing Skills..."
    ),
    "summary": TaskCreate(
        subject="Report comprehensive summary",
        description="Aggregate results and display stats",
        activeForm="Generating summary..."
    )
}

# Add permissions task by default (unless --without-permission-enable flag set)
if not without_permission_enable:
    tasks["permissions"] = TaskCreate(
        subject="Configure permissions via configure-permissions",
        description="Call /configure-permissions to set up work-issue auto mode",
        activeForm="Configuring permissions..."
    )

Step 2: Execute with Status Updates

# Profile detection
TaskUpdate(tasks["profile"], "in_progress")
profile = detect_profile_from_framework_install(target_path)
TaskUpdate(tasks["profile"], "completed")

# Path validation
TaskUpdate(tasks["validate"], "in_progress")
validate_paths(source, target)
TaskUpdate(tasks["validate"], "completed")

# Call update-pillars sub-skill
TaskUpdate(tasks["pillars"], "in_progress")
Skill("update-pillars", args=f"--to {target} --pillars {profile.pillars}")
TaskUpdate(tasks["pillars"], "completed")

# Call update-rules sub-skill
TaskUpdate(tasks["rules"], "in_progress")
Skill("update-rules", args=f"--to {target} --profile {profile.name}")
TaskUpdate(tasks["rules"], "completed")

# Call update-workflow sub-skill
TaskUpdate(tasks["workflow"], "in_progress")
Skill("update-workflow", args=f"--to {target}")
TaskUpdate(tasks["workflow"], "completed")

# Call update-skills sub-skill
TaskUpdate(tasks["skills"], "in_progress")
Skill("update-skills", args=f"--to {target}")
TaskUpdate(tasks["skills"], "completed")

# Call configure-permissions sub-skill by default (unless --without-permission-enable flag set)
if not without_permission_enable and "permissions" in tasks:
    TaskUpdate(tasks["permissions"], "in_progress")
    Skill("configure-permissions", args=f"{target}")
    TaskUpdate(tasks["permissions"], "completed")

# Summary
TaskUpdate(tasks["summary"], "in_progress")
print_summary(results)
TaskUpdate(tasks["summary"], "completed")

Step 3: DO NOT Use Direct rsync

❌ WRONG - Do not do this:

rsync -av framework/.prot-template/pillars/ ../target/.prot/pillars/
rsync -av framework/.claude-template/rules/ ../target/.claude/rules/
rm -rf ../target/.claude/rules/backend  # Manual cleanup

✅ CORRECT - Delegate to sub-skills:

Skill("update-pillars", args="--to ../target --pillars A,B,K,L")
Skill("update-rules", args="--to ../target --profile nextjs-aws")
Skill("update-workflow", args="--to ../target")
Skill("update-skills", args="--to ../target")

Why: Sub-skills handle filtering, validation, error handling, and backups correctly.

Workflow

Step 0: Profile-Based Filtering (Auto-Detection)

Before syncing, auto-detect the target project's profile to filter irrelevant components.

How it works:

1. Auto-detect profile from .framework-install file in target project
2. Load profile configuration from framework/profiles/{profile}.json
3. Extract rules list from profile's rules array
4. Filter during sync - only copy rules that match the profile
5. Fallback to questionnaire if .framework-install not found

Supported profiles:

• tauri - 4 Pillars (A, B, K, L), 23 rules - Desktop apps (Tauri + React)
• tauri-aws - TBD Pillars, TBD rules - Desktop + cloud backend
• nextjs-aws - 15 Pillars (full-stack), 30 rules - Full-stack web apps (Next.js + AWS)

Actual results (from Issue #162):

• u-safe (tauri): 46 rules → 23 rules ✅ (50% reduction, 100% compliance)
• buffer (nextjs-aws): 43 rules → 30 rules ✅ (30% reduction, 100% compliance)
• Zero incorrect rules after profile-aware sync

Benefits:

• ✅ No repetitive questions - Profile already known from init-project
• ✅ Consistent filtering - Same rules every time based on profile
• ✅ Automatic - Works without user interaction
• ✅ Fallback available - Questionnaire still used if config missing

See: PROFILE_FILTERING.md for profile detection logic and examples.

Step 1: Create Todo List

Initialize sync tracking using TaskCreate:

Task #0: Tech stack questionnaire (if needed)
Task #1: Validate source and target paths (blocked by #0)
Task #2: Aggregate component analysis (blocked by #1)
Task #3: Show unified diff preview (blocked by #2)
Task #4: Execute all component syncs (blocked by #3)
Task #5: Collect results from all components (blocked by #4)
Task #6: Report comprehensive summary (blocked by #5)

After creating tasks, proceed with meta-sync execution.

What Gets Synced

Complete Framework (Default)

Sync Order (dependency-optimized):
1. 📚 Pillars    → .prot/pillars/              (Foundation)
2. 📋 Rules      → .claude/rules/              (Reference Pillars)
3. 📖 Workflow   → CLAUDE.md + .claude/workflow/ (Uses Rules)
4. ⚡ Skills     → .claude/skills/             (Implements Workflow)

Component Details

Usage

Push Framework to Target Project

Must run from ai-dev framework directory.

Push entire framework from ai-dev to target project:

# Must be in ai-dev directory
cd ~/dev/ai-dev

# Push to target project
/update-framework ../target-project
/update-framework ../target-project --dry-run
/update-framework ../target-project --skip skills

What happens: 0. Validate working directory - must be in ai-dev framework

1. Auto-detect profile from target project's .framework-install
2. Load profile configuration and extract rules list
3. Call all 4 update-* skills with target path and filter config
4. Aggregate analysis results (with filter summary)
5. Show what will be pushed
6. Confirm once
7. Execute all 4 syncs with smart filtering

3. Dry Run Mode (--dry-run)

Preview all changes without applying:

/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --dry-run

Output:

• Aggregated analysis from all 4 components
• Shows what would be synced
• No confirmation required
• No actual changes made

4. Selective Sync (--skip / --only)

Sync only specific components:

/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --only skills,workflow
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --skip pillars

Available components:

• pillars - Pillar documentation
• rules - Technical rules
• workflow - Workflow documentation
• skills - Skills (commands)

Note: Cannot use both --skip and --only together.

5. Reconfigure Tech Stack (--reconfigure)

Update tech stack configuration and regenerate filters:

/update-framework --to ../u-safe --reconfigure
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --reconfigure

What happens:

1. Ignore existing .claude/framework-config.json
2. Show tech stack questionnaire again
3. Generate new filter configuration based on new answers
4. Save updated config
5. Apply new filters during sync

When to use:

• Project tech stack changed (e.g., migrated from Vue to React)
• Added/removed cloud services (e.g., started using AWS)
• Want to adjust which rules are synced
• Initial config was incorrect

6. Configure Permissions (Default Behavior)

Permission configuration is ENABLED BY DEFAULT after framework sync:

# Default: permissions configured automatically
/update-framework ../target-project
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev

# Opt-out: skip permission configuration
/update-framework ../target-project --without-permission-enable
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --without-permission-enable

What happens by default:

1. Complete framework sync (Pillars, Rules, Workflow, Skills)
2. Automatically call /configure-permissions skill
3. Configure .claude/settings.json with required permissions
4. Show permission summary in final report

Configured permissions:

• ✅ All git operations (add, commit, push, checkout, branch, fetch, merge, worktree)
• ✅ All gh CLI operations (issue, pr)
• ✅ Profile-specific operations (npm test/lint/build for Node.js projects, pytest for Python projects)

When to skip (--without-permission-enable):

• Already configured permissions manually
• Using custom permission setup
• Testing framework sync without modifying settings

Result: After configuration, work-issue --auto runs without permission prompts.

Orchestration Logic

How meta-skill delegates to component skills:

1. Call all 4 update-* skills with --dry-run flags
2. Capture and aggregate analysis from each skill
3. Show unified summary table with new/updated/unchanged counts
4. If NOT dry-run, confirm once
5. Execute all 4 syncs with filter configuration
6. Report comprehensive summary

Sync order (dependency-aware):

• Pillars → Rules → Workflow → Skills

See: ADVANCED.md for complete delegation flow, output examples, and partial failure recovery.

Usage Examples

Example 1: Framework Upgrade (Recommended Monthly)

User says:

"update framework from ai-dev"

What happens (with 7-task progress tracking):

🚀 Starting framework sync...

Task Progress:
✅ Task 1/7: Detect tech stack profile (profile: tauri)
✅ Task 2/7: Validate source and target paths
⏳ Task 3/7: Syncing Pillars via update-pillars...
   Launching skill: update-pillars
   ✅ Synced 4 Pillars (A, B, K, L)
✅ Task 3/7: Complete

⏳ Task 4/7: Syncing Rules via update-rules...
   Launching skill: update-rules
   ✅ Synced 23 rules (tauri profile, 23 filtered)
✅ Task 4/7: Complete

⏳ Task 5/7: Syncing Workflow via update-workflow...
   Launching skill: update-workflow
   ✅ Synced 6 workflow files
✅ Task 5/7: Complete

⏳ Task 6/7: Syncing Skills via update-skills...
   Launching skill: update-skills
   ✅ Synced 18 skills
✅ Task 6/7: Complete

✅ Task 7/7: Report comprehensive summary

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Summary
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Profile: tauri
✅ Pillars: 4 synced
✅ Rules: 23 synced (23 filtered by profile)
✅ Workflow: 6 synced
✅ Skills: 18 synced

Total: 51 items synced in 28 seconds

Time: ~30 seconds

Example 2: Initial Project Setup

User says:

"push entire framework to my new project at ~/projects/new-app"

What happens:

1. /update-framework --to ~/projects/new-app
2. Detect profile: nextjs-aws (from .framework-install)
3. Aggregate: 38 NEW items to push
4. Confirm once
5. Execute all 4 pushes with profile-based filtering
6. Report: "Pushed 38 items (nextjs-aws profile)"

Time: ~45 seconds

Example 3: Selective Update (Documentation Only)

User says:

"update framework from ai-dev but skip skills"

What happens:

1. /update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --skip skills
2. Only call update-pillars, update-rules, update-workflow
3. Aggregate: 8 items to sync (skip skills)
4. Confirm and sync
5. Report: "Updated 8 items (skipped skills)"

Time: ~20 seconds

Example 4: Dry Run Preview

User says:

"show me what would change if I pulled framework from ai-dev"

What happens:

1. /update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --dry-run
2. Call all 4 skills with --dry-run
3. Show aggregated analysis
4. No confirmation, no changes
5. Report: "11 items would be synced (dry run)"

Time: ~15 seconds

Safety Features

Pre-flight checks:

• ✅ Source/target paths exist
• ✅ Source has framework components
• ✅ All 4 component skills exist
• ✅ Single confirmation for all updates
• ✅ Dry-run preview available

Smart defaults:

• Dependency-aware sync order (Pillars → Rules → Workflow → Skills)
• Aggregated summary before confirmation
• Progress shown for each component
• Clean error messages per component
• Partial failure handling (continue other components)

Backup protection:

• Inherited from individual update-* skills
• Each skill creates backups before overwrite
• Timestamped backup directories

Error Handling

Invalid Source/Target

❌ Error: Project not found

Path: ../nonexistent
Expected framework components in: ../nonexistent/

Please check:
1. Path is correct
2. Project has framework components (.prot/, .claude/)
3. You have read permissions

Missing Component Skills

❌ Error: Required skill not found

Missing: update-pillars

This meta-skill requires all 4 component skills:
- update-pillars
- update-rules
- update-workflow
- update-skills

Please ensure all skills are installed.

No Updates Needed

✅ All framework components are up to date!

No new or updated items found in source.
Current project has all latest versions.

┌────────────┬─────┬─────┬──────┐
│ Component  │ New │ Upd │ Same │
├────────────┼─────┼─────┼──────┤
│ Pillars    │  0  │  0  │   3  │
│ Rules      │  0  │  0  │  40  │
│ Workflow   │  0  │  0  │   5  │
│ Skills     │  0  │  0  │  12  │
└────────────┴─────┴─────┴──────┘

Partial Failure

⚠️  Framework sync completed with warnings

✅ Pillars: Updated 2 items
✅ Rules: Updated 4 items
❌ Workflow: Failed (permission denied)
✅ Skills: Updated 3 items

Summary:
- Successful: 3/4 components
- Failed: 1 component (workflow)

Would you like to retry failed components? (y/n)

Best Practices

1. Always dry-run first for major updates:

/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --dry-run
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev

2. Regular framework upgrades:

# Weekly/monthly routine
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev

3. Selective updates for safety:

# Only update documentation first
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --only pillars,rules,workflow

# Then update tools after testing
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev --only skills

4. Framework as source of truth:

# In projects: pull from framework
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev

# In framework: pull innovations from projects
/update-framework --from ~/projects/my-app --only skills

Integration with Component Skills

You can still use individual update- skills:*

# Fine-grained control
/update-pillars --from ~/dev/ai-dev --pillars A,B,K
/update-rules --from ~/dev/ai-dev --categories core,architecture
/update-workflow --from ~/dev/ai-dev --files CLAUDE.md
/update-skills --from ~/dev/ai-dev --skills adr,review

# Coarse-grained control (this meta-skill)
/update-framework --from ~/dev/ai-dev

When to use update-framework:

• ✅ Monthly framework upgrades
• ✅ Initial project setup
• ✅ Complete sync needed
• ✅ Want simplicity (one command)

When to use individual update- skills:*

• ✅ Only need specific component
• ✅ Need fine-grained filtering (--pillars, --profile, etc.)
• ✅ Testing updates incrementally
• ✅ Debugging sync issues

Task Management

After each meta-sync step, update progress:

Paths validated → Update Task #1
Component analysis aggregated → Update Task #2
Unified diff shown → Update Task #3
All component syncs executed → Update Task #4
Results collected → Update Task #5
Summary reported → Update Task #6

Provides real-time visibility of meta-sync progress.

Final Verification

Before declaring sync complete, verify:

- [ ] All 6 meta-sync tasks completed
- [ ] Source and target paths valid
- [ ] All 4 component skills called successfully
- [ ] User confirmed unified changes
- [ ] All components synced (or partial failure reported)
- [ ] Comprehensive summary displayed

Missing items indicate incomplete meta-sync.

Comparison with Individual Skills

Workflow Skills Requirements

This is a workflow skill and must follow the standard pattern:

1. TaskCreate at start - Create todo list for progress tracking
2. TaskUpdate during execution - Mark tasks in_progress → completed
3. Verification checklist - Final validation before completion

See: WORKFLOW_PATTERNS.md for complete implementation guide

Related Skills

• /update-pillars - Sync Pillars (called by this meta-skill)
• /update-rules - Sync rules (called by this meta-skill)
• /update-workflow - Sync workflow docs (called by this meta-skill)
• /update-skills - Sync skills (called by this meta-skill)

Version: 2.1.0 Last Updated: 2026-03-12 Changelog:

• v2.1.0 (2026-03-12): Meta-skill to sync entire framework (pillars + rules + workflow + skills) Pattern: Meta-Skill (orchestrates other skills) Compliance: ADR-001 Section 4 ✅