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Sync Externals — Development skill for Claude Code

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Show whether the pinned external dependencies (oh-my-zsh) are stale, and how to refresh them.

How to install Sync Externals

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/edjchapman-dotfiles-sync-externals.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edjchapman/Dotfiles/HEAD/.claude/commands/sync-externals.md -o ~/.claude/commands/edjchapman-dotfiles-sync-externals.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Sync Externals does

description: Show whether the pinned external dependencies (oh-my-zsh) are stale, and how to refresh them. allowed-tools: Bash(chezmoi diff:), Bash(git ls-remote:), Read, Grep

Inspect `.chezmoiexternal.toml`. For each external:

Read the pinned URL/SHA/refresh period.
For the oh-my-zsh archive (pinned to a commit SHA in the URL), use git ls-remote https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh refs/heads/master to check if upstream master has moved.
Run `chezmoi diff --exclude=encryp

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