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Overview

The uipro update command updates your UI/UX Pro Max installation to the latest version. It checks for the newest release and reinstalls the skill files with the latest features, data, and improvements.

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Syntax

uipro update [options]

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Options

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--ai
string
default:"auto-detect"
Specify the AI assistant type to update. Valid values:
  • claude - Claude Code
  • cursor - Cursor
  • windsurf - Windsurf
  • antigravity - Antigravity Kit
  • copilot - GitHub Copilot
  • kiro - Kiro
  • roocode - Roo Code
  • codex - Codex
  • qoder - Qoder
  • gemini - Google Gemini
  • trae - Trae
  • opencode - OpenCode
  • continue - Continue
  • codebuddy - CodeBuddy
  • droid - Droid (Factory)
  • all - Update all platforms
If not specified, the command will prompt you to select.

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How It Works

The update command performs the following steps:
  1. Check Latest Release - Fetches the latest version from GitHub
  2. Display Version - Shows the latest available version
  3. Reinstall - Runs uipro init with --force flag to overwrite existing files
Internally, uipro update is equivalent to: 
uipro init --force --ai <type>

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Examples

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Basic Update

Update with auto-detection: 
uipro update
Expected Output: 
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 UI/UX Pro Max Updater
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✔ Latest version: v2.2.3

ℹ Running update (same as init with latest version)...

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 UI/UX Pro Max Installer
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Detected: claude
? Select AI assistant to install for: › Claude Code

ℹ Installing for: Claude Code
✔ Generated from templates!

ℹ Installed folders:
  + .claude

✔ UI/UX Pro Max installed successfully!

Next steps:
  1. Restart your AI coding assistant
  2. Try: "Build a landing page for a SaaS product"

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Update Specific Platform

Update for Cursor without prompting: 
uipro update --ai cursor
Expected Output: 
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 UI/UX Pro Max Updater
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✔ Latest version: v2.2.3

ℹ Running update (same as init with latest version)...

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 UI/UX Pro Max Installer
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

ℹ Installing for: Cursor
✔ Generated from templates!

ℹ Installed folders:
  + .cursor
  + .shared

✔ UI/UX Pro Max installed successfully!

Next steps:
  1. Restart your AI coding assistant
  2. Try: "Build a landing page for a SaaS product"

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Update All Platforms

Update installations for all AI assistants: 
uipro update --ai all
This updates all platform-specific folders in your project.

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Update Frequency

Recommended update schedule:
  • Monthly - Check for new features and design data
  • After Major Releases - Get breaking changes and improvements
  • When Issues Arise - Fix bugs and resolve problems

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Check Current Version

To see your currently installed CLI version: 
uipro --version
Output: 
2.2.3

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Check Available Versions

To see all available versions: 
uipro versions
See the uipro versions documentation for details.

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Error Scenarios

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GitHub API Rate Limit

uipro update
Error: 
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 UI/UX Pro Max Updater
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✖ Update check failed
✖ GitHub API rate limit exceeded
Solution: Wait an hour for rate limit reset, or run uipro init --force to update using template generation.

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Network Connection Error

When updating without internet connection: 
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
 UI/UX Pro Max Updater
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

✖ Update check failed
✖ Network request failed
Solution: Ensure internet connection or use uipro init --force --offline to update using bundled assets.

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Invalid AI Type

uipro update --ai invalid
Error: 
Invalid AI type: invalid
Valid types: claude, cursor, windsurf, antigravity, copilot, kiro, roocode, codex, qoder, gemini, trae, opencode, continue, codebuddy, droid, all
Solution: Use one of the valid AI types listed.

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Behavior Details

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Force Overwrite

The update command automatically uses the --force flag, which means:
  • Existing files will be overwritten
  • No confirmation prompt for overwrites
  • Previous customizations will be lost
If you’ve modified skill files manually, back them up before updating:
# Backup example for Claude Code
cp -r .claude/skills/ui-ux-pro-max .claude/skills/ui-ux-pro-max.backup
uipro update --ai claude

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Update vs Init

The only differences between uipro update and uipro init:
Featureuipro inituipro update
Checks latest versionNoYes
Shows version infoNoYes
Force overwritesOptional (--force)Always
PurposeFirst installUpdate existing

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Troubleshooting

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Update Not Taking Effect

If changes don’t appear after updating:
  1. Restart your AI assistant - Skills only reload on restart
  2. Clear cache - Some platforms cache skill files
  3. Verify files - Check that files were actually updated:
ls -la .claude/skills/ui-ux-pro-max/

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Partial Update Failure

If update partially completes: 
# Clean install
rm -rf .claude .cursor .shared  # or relevant folders
uipro init --ai <type>

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Permission Issues

If you encounter permission errors: 
# Fix permissions first
chmod -R u+w .claude .shared

# Then update
uipro update --ai claude

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CLI Version Out of Date

If your CLI is outdated, update it first: 
# Update the CLI itself
npm update -g uipro-cli

# Verify new version
uipro --version

# Then update skill files
uipro update

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What Gets Updated

When you run uipro update, the following components are updated:

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Design Databases

  • Product type recommendations
  • UI style guides with AI prompts
  • Color palettes
  • Typography pairings
  • Landing page structures
  • Chart type recommendations
  • UX best practices

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Scripts

  • Search engine improvements
  • Performance optimizations
  • Bug fixes

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Templates

  • Skill instructions
  • Workflow definitions
  • Platform configurations

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Stack Guidelines

  • Framework-specific best practices
  • Component library patterns
  • New stack support

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Next Steps

After updating:
  1. Restart your AI assistant - Load the updated skill
  2. Test functionality - Verify the update worked
  3. Check changelog - See what’s new in the release
  4. Report issues - If something broke, file a GitHub issue

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