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Spring Refresh

  • 1 installs
  • 21 repo stars
  • Updated August 5, 2026
  • joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

Checks whether the Spring Boot skills are current with the latest research docs and flags stale skills needing updates.

About

Scans Spring Boot skill content against latest research docs to report freshness and flag stale skills. A developer or maintainer uses it to keep the Spring Boot skill set up to date.

  • Freshness scanner over Spring Boot skills
  • Optional deep-research refresh of research docs

Spring Refresh by the numbers

  • 1 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #1,361 of 1,879 Documentation skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Aug 5, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedAugust 5, 2026
Repositoryjoaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

What it does

Checks whether the Spring Boot skills are current with the latest research docs and flags stale skills needing updates.

Files

SKILL.mdMarkdownGitHub ↗

Spring Boot Skill Freshness

Check whether Spring Boot skills are current with the latest research docs.

Arguments

Parse $ARGUMENTS for mode:

  • `check` (default, no args) — Scan and report freshness
  • `refresh` — Update research docs via deep-research, then report
  • `update <skill-name>` — Help update a specific skill's content

Mode: check

1. Run the freshness scanner:

python3 ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/scan_skill_freshness.py --format json ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../..

2. Parse the JSON output and present a formatted report with:

  • Research doc staleness table (file, version, last updated, age, status)
  • Skill drift table (name, target version, last modified, research date, drift, status)
  • Summary counts (up-to-date, needs review, needs update)

3. For skills with NEEDS_REVIEW or NEEDS_UPDATE:

  • List which research docs they depend on
  • Suggest running /spring-refresh update <skill-name> for each

Mode: refresh

1. For each Spring Boot research doc, invoke the Skill tool with core:deep-research to refresh:

  • refresh spring-boot-ecosystem (for ecosystem-research.md)
  • refresh spring-boot-ddd-implementation (for ddd-implementation.md)
  • refresh spring-boot-security-observability-testing (for security-observability-testing.md)

2. After all research docs are refreshed, run the check mode to produce the updated report.

3. Show a before/after comparison of research doc dates.

Fallback: If the deep-research skill is not available, skip the research refresh and run check mode only. Inform the user they can manually update research docs.

Mode: update \<skill-name\>

1. Run check mode first to identify drift status for the specified skill.

2. Read the research docs that map to this skill:

  • spring-boot-ecosystem-research.md → scanner, verify, web-api, data-ddd, modulith, domain-driven-design
  • spring-boot-ddd-implementation.md → domain-driven-design, data-ddd, web-api, modulith
  • spring-boot-security-observability-testing.md → security, observability, testing

3. Read the skill's current content: SKILL.md, EXAMPLES.md, TROUBLESHOOTING.md, and all files in references/.

4. Compare research content against skill content. Identify:

  • New APIs or patterns in research not covered in the skill
  • Deprecated patterns in the skill that research has replaced
  • Version-specific changes (e.g., new Spring Boot minor version features)

5. Present proposed changes to the user for confirmation before editing.

6. After updates, bump the spring-boot-version field if targeting a new version.

Output Format

## Spring Boot Skill Freshness Report

### Research Documents
| Document | Version | Updated | Age | Status |
|----------|---------|---------|-----|--------|

### Skills
| Skill | Target | Modified | Research | Drift | Status |
|-------|--------|----------|----------|-------|--------|

### Recommendations
- [actionable items]

References

  • EXAMPLES.md for usage examples
  • TROUBLESHOOTING.md for common issues
  • Research docs (local): docs/research/spring-boot-*.md
  • Research docs on GitHub

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