update-deps

update-deps is a skill for Claude Code from alexmond/jhelm. It costs 16 tokens per session (1,464 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for checking whether project dependencies and build plugins have newer versions, selecting the relevant upgrades, and verifying the result. Dependencies are external libraries; plugins extend the build system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan Maven projects for dependency and plugin updates, review a cleaned list of candidates, apply chosen upgrades, and check that the build still works.
Why use it?
It filters out updates that are managed by the project’s framework, belong to internal modules, are downgrades, or are misleading version matches. This reduces unnecessary or unsafe upgrade work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 skills/alexmond/jhelm/update-deps
Any agent
npx skills add alexmond/jhelm --skill update-deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmond/jhelm

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,464 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 $0.00016 $0.01464
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00146

Measured 6d ago against content hash 667a860d58ef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

update-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 6d 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/skills/update-deps/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency & Plugin Update Workflow

Scan for available updates, filter out noise, present options, apply selected upgrades, and verify the build.


Step 1: Scan for updates

Run both scans in parallel:

./mvnw versions:display-property-updates -N 2>&1 | grep '\->' > /tmp/jhelm-property-updates.txt
./mvnw versions:display-plugin-updates -N 2>&1 | grep '\->' | grep -v 'reactor\|Help\|Could not' > /tmp/jhelm-plugin-updates.txt

Step 2: Parse and filter results

Run this script to produce a clean update table. It excludes:

  • Spring Boot managed dependencies (jackson, spring-framework/security/session, snakeyaml, logback, slf4j, junit, mockito, lombok, hibernate, tomcat, netty, reactor, micrometer, h2, flyway, liquibase) — these are pinned by the Spring Boot BOM and must not be overridden individually. Note: spring-retry is NOT managed by the BOM.
  • Internal modules (org.alexmond)
  • False-positive classifiers (e.g. 25.0.0 -> 25.0.0-legacy)
  • Downgrade suggestions or versions older than current
python3 -c "
import re, sys

SPRING_BOOT_MANAGED = {
    'jackson', 'spring-', 'snakeyaml', 'logback', 'slf4j',
    'junit', 'mockito', 'lombok', 'hibernate', 'tomcat',
    'netty', 'reactor', 'micrometer', 'h2', 'flyway',
    'liquibase', 'assertj', 'byte-buddy', 'objenesis',
    'jakarta', 'aspectj', 'thymeleaf', 'commons-compress',
    'httpclient', 'httpcore',
}

def is_managed(name):
    lower = name.lower()
    return any(m in lower for m in SPRING_BOOT_MANAGED)

def is_false_positive(current, new):
    # Reject classifier-only changes (e.g. 25.0.0 -> 25.0.0-legacy)
    if new.startswith(current + '-'):
        return True
    return False

updates = []

# Parse property updates
try:
    with open('/tmp/jhelm-property-updates.txt') as f:
        for line in f:
            m = re.search(r'\\\$\{(.+?)\}\s+\.+\s+(\S+)\s+->\s+(\S+)', line)
            if m:
                prop, cur, new = m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3)
                if not is_managed(prop) and not is_false_positive(cur, new):
                    updates.append(('property', prop, cur, new))
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass

# Parse plugin updates
try:
    with open('/tmp/jhelm-plugin-updates.txt') as f:
        for line in f:
            m = re.search(r'(\S+:\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+->\s+(\S+)', line)
            if m:
                plugin, cur, new = m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3)
                if not is_managed(plugin) and not is_false_positive(cur, new):
                    updates.append(('plugin', plugin, cur, new))
except FileNotFoundError:
    pass

if not updates:
    print('All dependencies and plugins are up to date.')
    sys.exit(0)

print(f\"{'#':>3}  {'Type':<10} {'Name':<50} {'Current':<15} {'New':<15}\")
print('-' * 97)
for i, (typ, name, cur, new) in enumerate(updates, 1):
    print(f'{i:>3}  {typ:<10} {name:<50} {cur:<15} {new:<15}')
"

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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. 6d ago First seen · 162 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 667a860d58ef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

update-deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexmond/jhelm (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 1,464 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 2026-08-31.

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