Upgrades

Monitor Anthropic ecosystem AND AI development YouTube channels for updates that can improve PAI infrastructure.

Voice Notification

When executing a workflow, do BOTH:

Send voice notification:

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:8888/notify
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d '{"message": "Running the WORKFLOWNAME workflow from the Upgrades skill"}' \

/dev/null 2>&1 &

Output text notification:

Running the WorkflowName workflow from the Upgrades skill...

Full documentation: ~/.claude/skills/CORE/SkillNotifications.md

Workflow Routing

When executing a workflow, output this notification directly:

Running the WorkflowName workflow from the Upgrades skill...

Workflow Trigger File

Anthropic "check Anthropic", "new Claude features" Workflows/Anthropic.md

YouTube "check YouTube", "new videos" Workflows/YouTube.md

ReleaseNotesDeepDive "analyze release notes", "deep dive features", "/release-notes analysis" Workflows/ReleaseNotesDeepDive.md

All "check for updates", "check upgrades" Run both workflows

Examples

Example 1: Full ecosystem check

User: "check for updates" → Invokes All workflow → Runs Anthropic workflow then YouTube workflow → Reports Anthropic changes + new YouTube videos with transcripts

Example 2: Anthropic only

User: "any new Claude Code features?" → Invokes Anthropic workflow → Runs Anthropic.ts tool → Returns prioritized update report

Example 3: YouTube only

User: "any new videos from Indy Dev Dan?" → Invokes YouTube workflow → Checks channels, uses VideoTranscript skill for transcripts → Shows new videos with transcripts

Example 4: Deep dive on release notes

User: "deep dive the latest release notes" → Invokes ReleaseNotesDeepDive workflow → Runs /release-notes to capture features → Launches parallel research agents for each feature → Researches GitHub, docs, blog for each feature → Maps to PAI architecture opportunities → Outputs prioritized upgrade roadmap with citations

Anthropic Monitoring (30+ sources)

Sources Monitored:

• Blogs & News (4) - Main blog, Alignment, Research, Interpretability

• GitHub Repositories (21+) - claude-code, skills, MCP, SDKs, cookbooks

• Changelogs (5) - Claude Code CHANGELOG, releases, docs notes

• Documentation (6) - Claude docs, API docs, MCP docs, spec, registry

• Community (1) - Discord server

YouTube Monitoring

YouTube channels are configured via the Skill Customization Layer. See ~/.claude/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Upgrades/ for user-specific channels.

Features:

• Detection of new videos via yt-dlp

• Transcript extraction via VideoTranscript skill

• State tracking to avoid duplicate processing

• User-customizable channel list (add your own channels via customization layer)

Tool Reference

Tool Purpose

tools/Anthropic.ts

Check Anthropic sources

Configuration

Base Skill Files:

• sources.json

• Anthropic sources config (30+ sources)

• youtube-channels.json

• Base YouTube channels (empty - uses customization)

• state/last-check.json

• Anthropic state

• state/youtube-videos.json

• YouTube state

User Customizations (~/.claude/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/Upgrades/ ):

• EXTEND.yaml

• Extension manifest

• youtube-channels.json

• User's personal YouTube channels

Use bun ~/.claude/skills/CORE/Tools/LoadSkillConfig.ts to load configs with customizations merged.

Integration

Uses VideoTranscript skill for transcript extraction:

bun ~/.claude/skills/CORE/Tools/GetTranscript.ts "<youtube-url>"