up: One Command to Update All My AI Tools

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Author

Andrea Zonca

Published

May 17, 2026

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I use a lot of AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Cline, Qwen Code, Crush, and more. Keeping them all updated was a chore: apt upgrade for the system, npm install -g for Node packages, claude upgrade for Claude, downloading releases for gog… I kept forgetting one or another.

So I wrote a shell function called up that handles everything in one shot and shows me a before/after version report so I can see exactly what changed.

What it does

  • Runs apt upgrade for system packages
  • Updates all npm-installed AI tools (only the ones actually installed)
  • Updates gog from GitHub releases
  • Runs claude upgrade and copilot extension upgrade
  • Prints a clean version comparison table at the end

Self-updating

The script now lives in a GitHub repo and checks for updates on every run. If there’s a newer version, it patches itself automatically — no manual intervention needed.

Install

curl -o ~/.up.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zonca/up/main/up.sh
echo 'source ~/.up.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Then just run up.

Scheduled runs

I have it running automatically every morning at 7am via cron, so my environment is always up to date when I start the day:

echo '0 7 * * * /bin/bash -c "source ~/.up.sh && up" >> ~/.up.log 2>&1' | crontab -

The repo is at github.com/zonca/up — PRs welcome if you want to add support for more tools.