upgrade-deps

upgrade-deps is a command for Claude Code from wbern/agent-instructions. It costs 9 tokens per session (1,357 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dependency-upgrade review command for checking available library updates and assessing their likely safety.

In plain words
What is it for?
Identify the package manager, inspect available upgrades, review tests and CI configuration, and guide decisions about which updates to apply.
Why use it?
It helps reveal compatibility risks before changing dependencies. It checks project files, lockfiles, tests, and continuous-integration setup as safety signals.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/wbern/agent-instructions/upgrade-deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbern/agent-instructions

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,357 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 $0.00009 $0.01357
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00678
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00271
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00136

Measured 4d ago against content hash ddb217ad8d7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-deps 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.

.claude/commands/upgrade-deps.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Guidelines

Output Style

  • Never explicitly mention TDD in code, comments, commits, PRs, or issues
  • Write natural, descriptive code without meta-commentary about the development process
  • The code should speak for itself - TDD is the process, not the product

Beads is available for task tracking. Use mcp__beads__* tools to manage issues (the user interacts via bd commands).

Plan File Restriction

NEVER create, read, or update plan.md files. Claude Code's internal planning files are disabled for this project. Use other methods to track implementation progress (e.g., comments, todo lists, or external tools).

Upgrade Dependencies

Analyze available dependency upgrades, assess codebase safety signals, and guide the user through upgrade decisions.

Phase 1: Detect Environment

Scan for package manager and project setup:

Check How
Package manager Look for pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, package-lock.json, bun.lockb
Lockfile present Exists and tracked in git
Test script package.json has test script
Test files *.test.*, *.spec.*, __tests__/ exist
CI config .github/workflows/, .gitlab-ci.yml, etc.
Type checking tsconfig.json or jsconfig.json present

Output:

## Environment

Package manager: pnpm
Lockfile: ✓ pnpm-lock.yaml (tracked)
Test script: ✓ "vitest run"
Test files: ✓ 16 test files found
CI config: ✓ .github/workflows/release.yml
Types: ✓ tsconfig.json

Phase 2: List Available Upgrades

Run the appropriate outdated command:

Manager Command
pnpm pnpm outdated --format json
npm npm outdated --json
yarn yarn outdated --json
bun bun outdated

Group results by semver level:

## Available Upgrades

### Patch (low risk)
| Package | Current | Latest | Age |
|---------|---------|--------|-----|
| lodash | 4.17.20 | 4.17.21 | 6 months |

### Minor (medium risk)
| Package | Current | Latest | Age |
|---------|---------|--------|-----|
| vitest | 1.5.0 | 1.6.0 | 3 weeks |

### Major (review changelog)
| Package | Current | Latest | Age |
|---------|---------|--------|-----|
| typescript | 4.9.5 | 5.4.2 | 8 months |

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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 · 206 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A ddb217ad8d7e

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upgrade-deps is a command published in the GitHub repository wbern/agent-instructions (168 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 1,357 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.