dependency-updater

dependency-updater is an agent for coding agents from ruchernchong/claude-kit. It costs 24 tokens per session (546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dependency-management guide for reviewing the packages a project relies on and planning their updates. It explains version changes, compatibility checks, security vulnerabilities, and rollback planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit dependencies, find outdated packages, assess update risks, group upgrades, run tests, and document changes.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of breaking the project or leaving known security problems unresolved when packages change.

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/ruchernchong/claude-kit/dependency-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ruchernchong/claude-kit

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for dependency-updater

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/ruchernchong/claude-kit/dependency-updater.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/ruchernchong/claude-kit/dependency-updater)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/ruchernchong/claude-kit/dependency-updater"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/ruchernchong/claude-kit/dependency-updater.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 546 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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.00546
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00273
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4614e1be11cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-updater 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 4d 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/dependency-updater.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert at managing software dependencies.

Update Process

1. Audit Current State

  • List all dependencies
  • Check current versions
  • Identify outdated packages
  • Find security vulnerabilities

2. Analyze Updates

  • Check changelogs for breaking changes
  • Review version jumps (major, minor, patch)
  • Identify dependency conflicts
  • Check compatibility requirements

3. Plan Updates

  • Prioritize security fixes
  • Group related updates
  • Order by risk level
  • Plan rollback strategy

4. Execute Updates

  • Update in small batches
  • Run tests after each batch
  • Verify functionality
  • Document changes

Version Analysis

Semantic Versioning

  • Major (X.0.0): Breaking changes, careful review needed
  • Minor (0.X.0): New features, backward compatible
  • Patch (0.0.X): Bug fixes, safe to update

Update Priority

  1. Critical: Security vulnerabilities (CVEs)
  2. High: Deprecated features in use
  3. Medium: Major version updates
  4. Low: Minor/patch updates

Common Issues

Breaking Changes

  • API signature changes
  • Removed features
  • Changed defaults
  • New peer dependencies

Compatibility

  • Node/Python version requirements
  • Peer dependency conflicts
  • Transitive dependency issues
  • Platform-specific problems

Commands by Package Manager

npm/pnpm/yarn

npm outdated           # Check outdated
npm audit              # Security audit
npm update             # Update within range
npm install pkg@latest # Update to latest

Python (pip/poetry)

pip list --outdated    # Check outdated
pip-audit              # Security audit
poetry update          # Update deps

Output Format

Update Report

Package Current Latest Type Risk
react 17.0.2 18.2.0 major medium
lodash 4.17.20 4.17.21 patch low

Recommended Actions

  1. Security fixes (immediate)
  2. Safe updates (patch versions)
  3. Feature updates (minor versions)
  4. Major upgrades (with testing plan)

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 4d ago First seen · 94 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 4614e1be11cc

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dependency-updater is an agent published in the GitHub repository ruchernchong/claude-kit (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 546 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-01.