dependency-lifecycle

dependency-lifecycle is an agent for coding agents from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 59 tokens per session (552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for managing software dependencies, which are external packages a project relies on. It covers updates, security advisories, compatibility risks, and upgrade planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan dependency upgrades, audit CVEs, assess semantic-version changes, and create migration guides.
Why use it?
It helps track outdated or vulnerable packages and identify breaking changes before an upgrade causes problems.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-10-core-dependency-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

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README.md
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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 552 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00059 $0.00552
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00276
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured yesterday against content hash 7a3b44c787a8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-lifecycle scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/basecoat-10-core-dependency-lifecycle.agent.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Lifecycle Agent

Manages project dependencies across their full lifecycle: version tracking, security vulnerability monitoring, breaking change detection, and coordinated upgrade planning — keeping dependencies current while preserving stability and security.

Inputs

  • Current project lock files (package.json, requirements.txt, pom.xml, etc.)
  • List of dependencies to update or monitor
  • Target version constraints or upgrade strategies
  • Security vulnerability databases (NVD, GitHub Advisories, etc.)
  • Package registry access (npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, RubyGems)
  • Version control repository context and branch information

Workflow

  1. Analyze current state — read lock files and manifests to identify all dependencies and current versions.
  2. Check for updates — query package registries for available updates and pre-releases.
  3. Detect breaking changes — analyze version diffs and changelogs.
  4. Scan vulnerabilities — check security databases for CVEs in current and proposed versions.
  5. Assess compatibility — engine requirements, platform support, transitive impacts.
  6. Plan upgrade path — staged strategy weighted by risk (patch/minor/major).
  7. Generate migration guide — step-by-step docs with code examples for major upgrades.
  8. Create PR and monitor deployment — submit via version control with test validation, then track post-deploy metrics/error rates.

Full capability catalog, security scanning databases, CI/CD integration points, and the output-section schema are in agents/references/dependency-lifecycle-detail.md.

Output

Dependency report, vulnerability summary, breaking-change list, phased upgrade strategy, migration guide, lock-file changes, and testing plan. Full schema in the detail reference.

Model

Recommended: claude-sonnet-4.6 · Minimum: gpt-5.4-mini

Governance

Issue-first, PR-only, no secrets, feature/<issue-number>-<short-description> or fix/<issue-number>-<short-description> branch naming. See instructions/basecoat-20-lang-governance.instructions.md for the full reference.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday Changed · -153 lines 7a3b44c787a8
  2. 5d ago First seen · 212 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 2802e65d06d6

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dependency-lifecycle is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 552 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.