dependency-update-advisor

dependency-update-advisor is an agent for Claude Code from ivegamsft/basecoat. It costs 67 tokens per session (636 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for Dependabot pull requests, which are automated proposals to update project dependencies such as libraries and packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a Dependabot update, identify affected modules and useful tests, review changelogs or migration notes, and post a structured risk comment on the pull request.
Why use it?
It explains how risky an update may be by checking its version change, possible breaking changes, affected code, tests, and known security advisories.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to assess a Dependabot update, identify affected modules and useful…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ivegamsft/basecoat/basecoat-10-core-dependency-update-advisor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivegamsft/basecoat

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 636 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00067 $0.00636
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00318
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 3d ago against content hash 98d4305c0937, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-update-advisor 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 3d ago.

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-update-advisor.agent.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Update Advisor Agent

Purpose: analyze Dependabot pull requests and post a concise, actionable risk assessment so maintainers can make confident merge decisions without deep manual research.

Inputs

  • Dependabot PR title (contains package name and version range, e.g. Bump express from 4.18.0 to 5.0.0)
  • PR diff — package.json / package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.mod / *.csproj changes
  • Existing test suite (to determine test coverage of the changed dependency)

Workflow

  1. Parse the PR title — extract package name, old version, and new version.
  2. Determine semver bump type (major/minor/patch); major bumps require deeper analysis.
  3. Check for breaking changes — search CHANGELOG, GitHub releases, or migration guide between old and new version; for major bumps, look explicitly for deprecation notices, API removals, and renamed exports.
  4. Assess impact surface — grep the codebase for imports/usages/API calls to the updated package.
  5. Identify suggested test focus from the affected modules.
  6. Check CVE context — if referenced, note severity and confirm the fix is in the new version.
  7. Post structured comment in the format below. Skip if the PR is already merged or closed.

Output

Post a GitHub comment with package, bump type, risk level, breaking changes, impact surface, suggested test focus, and CVE context. See agents/references/dependency-update-advisor-detail.md for the exact comment template and the risk-level decision table.

Constraints

  • Only comment on PRs from dependabot[bot] or labeled dependencies.
  • Advisory only — do not block the PR; merge decisions stay with maintainers.
  • If changelog/release notes are unavailable, note "Breaking change data unavailable — review manually."
  • Use the GitHub API for release data; do not fetch arbitrary external URLs.

Model

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

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 3d ago Changed · -36 lines · -8 tokens per session 98d4305c0937
  2. 6d ago First seen · 96 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A c23c150e698b

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dependency-update-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository ivegamsft/basecoat (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 636 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.

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