michailbul/sync-plugin-skills

Sync Plugin Skills — laniameda-skills → Cowork Plugin

Keep the Cowork plugin in sync with the canonical laniameda-skills GitHub repo.

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Why This Exists

The laniameda AI creatorship plugin installed in Cowork is a .plugin ZIP file. When skills in the GitHub repo (Michailbul/laniameda-skills) are updated, the plugin doesn't auto-update. This skill rebuilds and reinstalls the plugin so Cowork picks up the latest versions.

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Architecture

github.com/Michailbul/laniameda-skills
  └── skills/ai-creatorship/           ← source of truth
        ├── seedance-prompting/
        ├── nano-banana-pro/
        ├── crea-cinematic-prompts/
        └── ... (all 14 skills)
              ↓
        [this skill: build + install]
              ↓
  ~/.claude/skills/laniameda-ai-creatorship/  ← local symlinks (install-skills.sh)
  ~/work/laniameda/laniameda-hq/*.plugin      ← rebuilt plugin file for Cowork

Remote plugin files at .remote-plugins/ are read-only — they're served by Cowork's registry. The update path is to rebuild the .plugin ZIP and reinstall it via Cowork.

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Step 1 — Pull Latest from GitHub

cd ~/work/laniameda/laniameda-hq/laniameda-skills
git pull origin main

Check what changed:

git log --oneline -5
git diff HEAD~1 HEAD --name-only

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Step 2 — Run install-skills.sh (local sync)

This syncs all skills to ~/.agents/skills/ and ~/.claude/skills/:

cd ~/work/laniameda/laniameda-hq/laniameda-skills
./install-skills.sh

To sync a single skill only:

./install-skills.sh seedance-prompting

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Step 3 — Identify What Changed (ai-creatorship scope)

Scope the diff to only ai-creatorship skills:

git diff HEAD~1 HEAD -- skills/ai-creatorship/

Check for:

• Updated SKILL.md files → need to be reflected in plugin
• New skill folders → need to be added to plugin
• Deleted skill folders → need to be removed from plugin
• Renamed folders → update plugin folder name + SKILL.md name field

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Step 4 — Rebuild the Plugin File

The plugin is a ZIP file with this structure:

plugin_name.plugin (ZIP)
  ├── README.md
  └── skills/
        ├── skill-name-1/
        │     └── SKILL.md
        ├── skill-name-2/
        │     └── SKILL.md
        └── ...

Build script

#!/bin/bash
# Run from laniameda-hq/

PLUGIN_NAME="laniameda-ai-creatorship"
SOURCE_DIR="laniameda-skills/skills/ai-creatorship"
OUTPUT="$PLUGIN_NAME.plugin"
STAGING="/tmp/$PLUGIN_NAME-staging"

# Clean staging
rm -rf "$STAGING"
mkdir -p "$STAGING/skills"

# Copy README
cp "$SOURCE_DIR/../../../README.md" "$STAGING/README.md" 2>/dev/null || \
  echo "# $PLUGIN_NAME Plugin" > "$STAGING/README.md"

# Copy all skill folders
for skill_dir in "$SOURCE_DIR"/*/; do
  skill_name=$(basename "$skill_dir")
  mkdir -p "$STAGING/skills/$skill_name"
  cp "$skill_dir/SKILL.md" "$STAGING/skills/$skill_name/SKILL.md"
  # Copy any reference dirs if present
  [ -d "$skill_dir/references" ] && cp -r "$skill_dir/references" "$STAGING/skills/$skill_name/"
  [ -d "$skill_dir/scripts" ] && cp -r "$skill_dir/scripts" "$STAGING/skills/$skill_name/"
done

# Build the ZIP
rm -f "$OUTPUT"
cd "$STAGING" && zip -r "$OLDPWD/$OUTPUT" . && cd "$OLDPWD"
echo "Built: $OUTPUT"

Save this as laniameda-hq/scripts/build-plugin.sh and run:

cd ~/work/laniameda/laniameda-hq
bash scripts/build-plugin.sh

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Step 5 — Reinstall in Cowork

After rebuilding, the .plugin file needs to be installed in Cowork:

1. Open Cowork settings → Plugins
2. Remove the old laniameda-ai-creatorship plugin
3. Install the new .plugin file from ~/work/laniameda/laniameda-hq/laniameda-ai-creatorship.plugin

OR if Cowork supports auto-reload from a local path, point it to the rebuilt file.

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Skill Sync Checklist

When syncing, verify these specific cases:

| Change type | Action | |---|---| | SKILL.md content updated | Overwrite file in plugin staging | | New skill folder added | Add folder + SKILL.md to staging | | Skill folder deleted | Remove from staging | | Skill folder renamed | Rename in staging, update name: field in SKILL.md | | references/ or scripts/ added | Copy alongside SKILL.md |

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Current Skill Manifest (ai-creatorship)

As of 2026-04-12, the canonical repo contains these skills:

| Folder | Status | |---|---| | ai-avatar-realistic | ✅ active | | ai-typography | ✅ active | | ai-video-prompting | ✅ active | | character-consistency-character-sheet | ✅ active (was: character-consistency) | | color-grade-transfer | ✅ active | | crea-cinematic-prompts | ✅ active | | frame-vfx-stylizer | ✅ active | | image-to-prompt | ✅ active | | laniameda-gallery-ingest | ✅ active | | laniameda-x-post | ✅ active | | mj-nb2-pipeline | ✅ active | | nano-banana-pro | ✅ active | | seedance-prompting | ✅ active (major update 2026-04-12) | | visual-style-replicator | ✅ active |

Removed from repo (remove from plugin):

• laniameda-gallery — deleted (commit: "remove duplicate laniameda-gallery skill")

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Quick Reference — What Changed in This Sync (2026-04-12)

From commit 439b473 → 4d1bb7f:

1. seedance-prompting/SKILL.md — major rewrite: added Mode 4 (commercial montage), compact single-shot template, reference library pointers, advanced director structure, multimodal dispatch reference, full debugging guide
2. laniameda-gallery/ — DELETED from repo (was duplicate of laniameda-gallery-ingest)
3. character-consistency/ — RENAMED to character-consistency-character-sheet + content updated
4. install-skills.sh — updated install script (pull this too)

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Notes

• Never edit files directly in .remote-plugins/ — they're read-only (served by Cowork registry)
• The source of truth is always github.com/Michailbul/laniameda-skills
• After a plugin rebuild + reinstall, restart the Cowork session to pick up new skill descriptions
• The plugin README.md should be updated to reflect the current skill manifest after each sync