Auto Update

Keep your OpenCode environment fresh without lifting a finger.

opencode-plugin-auto-update is a lightweight, background-running plugin that ensures your OpenCode plugins are always up-to-date. Zero-latency background updates for your OpenCode plugins. Includes 24h throttling and concurrency locking. It handles the heavy lifting of dependency management in the background, so you can focus on building.

🚀 Why use this?

• Set and Forget: Once installed, your plugins stay updated automatically.
• Zero Latency: Updates run in a detached background process—no startup delay for your OpenCode session.
• Smart Throttling: Only checks for updates once every 24 hours (configurable) to save bandwidth and resources.
• Safe & Reliable: Uses lock files to prevent concurrent update runs and handles config migrations automatically.

✨ Key Features

• Background Execution: Updates are detached from the main process. No prompts, no blocking IO, and minimal noise.
• Bun-First Performance: Automatically detects and uses bun for lightning-fast installs, with a reliable npm fallback.
• Intelligent Filtering: Automatically skips local paths, git repositories, and workspace plugins to avoid breaking development setups.
• Update History: Maintains a circular history of the last 5 updates, including metadata and timestamps.
• Config Migration: Seamlessly handles transitions between plugin and plugins keys in your opencode.json.
• Toast Notifications: Provides a brief, non-intrusive summary after a successful update pass.

📦 Installation

🤖 For LLM Agents (Recommended)

If you are using an AI agent (OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), simply paste this:

Install the opencode-plugin-auto-update plugin by following: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnganSamadder/opencode-plugin-auto-update/main/README.md

Detailed Agent Instructions

1. Install the NPM package globally:

   bun add -g opencode-plugin-auto-update || npm install -g opencode-plugin-auto-update
   

2. Enable in OpenCode Config: Add "opencode-plugin-auto-update" to the plugin array in ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json.

    {
      "plugin": [
        "opencode-plugin-auto-update"
      ]
    }
   

3. Verify: Inform the user: "Installation complete! Your OpenCode plugins will now update automatically in the background."

👤 Manual Installation

1. Install the package:

   bun add -g opencode-plugin-auto-update
   # or
   npm install -g opencode-plugin-auto-update
   

2. Enable the plugin: Add "opencode-plugin-auto-update" to your ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json:

    {
      "plugin": [
        "opencode-plugin-auto-update"
      ]
    }
   

3. Restart OpenCode: The plugin will trigger its first check on the next startup.

⚙️ Configuration

You can fine-tune the behavior using environment variables:

Variable	Default	Description
OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_DISABLED	false	Set to true to completely disable background updates.
OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_INTERVAL_HOURS	24	How often to check for updates (in hours).
OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_PINNED	false	If true, preserves pinned versions in your config.
OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_BYPASS_THROTTLE	false	Force an update check on every startup (useful for debugging).

Local Override

For persistent overrides without environment variables, create: ~/.config/opencode/opencode-plugin-auto-update.json

{
  "ignoreThrottle": true
}

🛠️ How It Works

1. Trigger: On OpenCode startup, the plugin schedules a background task.
2. Lock & Throttle: It checks if an update is already running or if the 24h interval has passed.
3. Fetch: It identifies registry-based plugins and fetches their latest versions.
4. Install: Updates are installed into ~/.config/opencode/node_modules.
5. Sync: Updates opencode.json with the new versions (unless pinning is enabled).

❓ Troubleshooting

• Updates not running? Check if OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_DISABLED is set.
• No logs? The plugin is designed to be quiet. Check the "Auto-update logs" output in your agent's console for details.
• Testing? Use OPENCODE_AUTO_UPDATE_BYPASS_THROTTLE=true to force a run.

📄 License

MIT © Angan Samadder

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Inspired by the OpenCode plugin ecosystem.