KY.AI.Updater 1.2.0

KY.AI.Updater

One command to keep the whole KY.AI tool suite current. ky-ai-updater updates itself first, then finds every other installed ky-ai-* tool and updates each one — so you don't have to run ky-ai-ng update, ky-ai-dotnet update, ky-ai-browser update, … by hand.

dotnet tool install --global KY.AI.Updater

Usage

ky-ai-updater            # update ky-ai-updater itself, then every other installed ky-ai-* tool
ky-ai-updater --all      # update only the OTHER installed ky-ai-* tools (skip self)
ky-ai-updater list       # show which ky-ai-* tools are installed (and how)

Just run ky-ai-updater — that's the whole story.

How it works

A running process can't replace its own files while it's running (a hard rule on Windows, and not worth assuming elsewhere). So the update runs in two phases:

1. Self-update. The work is handed to a separate step that waits for the current process to exit, runs dotnet tool update --global KY.AI.Updater --no-cache, and then re-invokes the freshly installed ky-ai-updater --all for everything else. On Windows that step is a new console window (the file lock there is real); on macOS/Linux the binary is replaced in place, so it runs inline and you watch it happen.

2. Update the rest. ky-ai-updater --all discovers the installed ky-ai-* tools dynamically — from the dotnet global-tool store and from npm globals — and updates each by delegating to its own update command. That's deliberate: each tool already knows how it was installed (dotnet vs npm) and stops its own running instances first so the files aren't locked. Keeping that logic in the tool, not duplicated here, means a tool added to the suite later is picked up with no change to the updater.

On Windows, each tool's own update schedules its real work in a new window and returns immediately, so you'll see a window per tool — let them finish.

--no-cache matters for the dotnet path: without it, dotnet tool update consults NuGet's local HTTP cache and can report "already up to date" for a while after a new version ships. Disabling the cache forces a fresh feed query and the real latest version.

Notes

• Stand-alone by design: this tool references nothing else in the suite (not even KY.AI.Serve), so the one tool whose job is to replace the others carries no shared, lockable dependencies.
• It does no network or MCP work of its own — it only shells out to dotnet / npm and to the other tools' update commands. Nothing is exposed off the machine.

See the project README for the full suite.