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Your playbook evolves alongside your codebase. Packmind supports two workflows for updating artifacts (standards, commands, and skills):
  • Direct updates — create a new artifact version immediately, without team review.
  • Change proposals — submit changes for team review before they are applied, via the CLI or the packmind-update-playbook skill.

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Direct Updates

Direct updates create a new artifact version immediately, without requiring team review.

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Using the UI

Standards and commands can be updated directly in the Packmind web interface. Open the artifact you want to edit, make your changes, and save to create a new version immediately.
Skills cannot yet be updated via the UI.

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Using the CLI

Skills can be directly imported or updated using the CLI: 
packmind-cli skills add <path>
This creates a new version of the skill immediately without going through a change proposal. See the CLI reference and Skills Management for details.
Direct updates via CLI for standards and commands are coming in Q1 2026.

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Change Proposals

For changes that should be reviewed by the team before being applied, use Change Proposals. This workflow lets you submit modifications from your local environment — either manually with packmind-cli diff commands, or automatically with the packmind-update-playbook skill.

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Choosing the Right Workflow

Direct updatesChange proposals
Best forYou own the artifact and want immediate effectChanges that should be reviewed by the team
ReviewNone — new version is created immediatelyTeam reviews and approves in the Packmind UI
HowWeb interface (standards & commands) or packmind-cli skills add (skills)packmind-update-playbook skill or packmind-cli diff commands
Supported artifactsAll artifact typesAll artifact types