diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ea/eask-cli/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ea/eask-cli/package.nix
index 0d81e23ef65d..0afd665f83f1 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ea/eask-cli/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ea/eask-cli/package.nix
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   lib,
   buildNpmPackage,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  nix-update-script,
   versionCheckHook,
 }:
 
@@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ buildNpmPackage (finalAttrs: {
 
   doInstallCheck = true;
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script {
+    extraArgs = [ "--use-github-releases" ];
+  };
+
   meta = {
     changelog = "https://github.com/emacs-eask/cli/blob/${finalAttrs.version}/CHANGELOG.md";
     description = "CLI for building, runing, testing, and managing your Emacs Lisp dependencies";