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Upstream Tracker

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Manage upstream issue tracking for this project. Use when the user wants to log a bug or friction point in a vendor package or npm dependency, review open upstream items, resolve a tracked issue, run a trend review, generate the upstream observations section of a sprint retrospective, promote upstream observations to Basic Memory, discover known friction from other projects, or track a contribution opportunity. Trigger phrases: 'upstream', 'track this', 'vendor issue', 'log this bug', 'review upstream', 'trend review', 'cross-vendor', 'this is a bug in X', 'promote to memory', 'promote upstream', 'sync from memory', 'known friction', 'resolved upstream', 'mark as fixed', 'tool issue', 'action bug', 'contribution opportunity', 'upstream this', 'contribute back', 'upstreamable', or any mention of friction with an external package.

From the source SKILL.md

Manage the UPSTREAM-*.md files that track bugs, feature requests, contribution opportunities, and friction discovered in upstream packages while building this project.

What this skill does

Upstream Tracker is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/upstream-tracker/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to log a bug or friction point in a vendor package or npm dependency, review open upstream items, resolve a tracked issue, run a trend review, generate the upstream observations section of a sprint retrospective, promote upstream observations to Basic Memory, discover known friction from other projects, or track a contribution opportunity. Trigger phrases: 'upstream', 'track this', 'vendor issue', 'log this bug', 'review upstream', 'trend review', 'cross-vendor', 'this is a bug in X', 'promote to memory', 'promote upstream', 'sync from memory', 'known friction', 'resolved upstream', 'mark as fixed', 'tool issue', 'action bug', 'contribution opportunity', 'upstream this', 'contribute back', 'upstreamable', or any mention of friction with an external package.

Who uses this skill

The Upstream Tracker Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/upstream-tracker
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/upstream-tracker/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/upstream-tracker/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/upstream-tracker/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/upstream-tracker/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\upstream-tracker\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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APA
ClaudSkills. (2026). Upstream Tracker [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/upstream-tracker/
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@misc{upstream-tracker-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Upstream Tracker [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/upstream-tracker/}
}

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