dependency-management

dependency-management is a skill for Claude Code from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,722 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step method for updating, migrating, or auditing project packages, with checks after each change. Packages are external libraries used by an application.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update outdated packages, fix security vulnerabilities, move to a new major version, or review dependency changes in Node.js, Python, Go, or Rust projects.
Why use it?
It limits the damage from version conflicts, changed APIs, security fixes, and other dependency updates that can break a project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superpowers-orchestrator plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to update outdated packages, fix security vulnerabilities, move to a new major version, or review dependency changes in Node.js, Python, Go, or Rust projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/dependency-management
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.

Any agent
npx skills add brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator --skill dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,722 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 $0.00156 $0.01722
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00861
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00172

Measured 9d ago against content hash 59935a05103e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-management 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 9d 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.

skills/dependency-management/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Management

Update one thing at a time. Verify after each. Never batch major upgrades.

Why This Exists

Dependency updates look simple — bump a version number, run install, done. In practice, they're one of the most common sources of hard-to-diagnose breakage: silent API changes, peer dependency conflicts, transitive dependency resolution shifts, and build tool incompatibilities. This skill enforces a structured approach that catches breakage at the smallest possible blast radius.

Phase 1: Audit

Before changing any versions, understand what needs updating and why.

  1. List outdated dependencies:

    • Node.js: npm outdated or yarn outdated
    • Python: pip list --outdated or pip-audit
    • Go: go list -m -u all
    • Rust: cargo outdated
    • General: check the package manager's audit/outdated command
  2. Categorize each update by urgency:

    • Security — CVE or advisory with known exploit. Update immediately.
    • Breaking — major version bump with documented breaking changes. Plan carefully.
    • Feature — minor/patch version with new features or non-breaking fixes. Low risk.
    • Transitive — a dependency of a dependency. Usually handled by lockfile update.
  3. Prioritize: Security > Breaking (if blocking other work) > Feature. Don't update everything at once — pick the highest-priority items first.

Phase 2: Impact Assessment

For each dependency to update (especially major versions):

  1. Read the changelog/migration guide. Look for:

    • Breaking API changes (renamed functions, removed options, changed signatures)
    • Dropped platform/runtime support (minimum Node version, Python version, etc.)
    • Peer dependency changes (requires React 18, drops support for React 16)
    • Changed default behavior (opt-in → opt-out, strict mode, new warnings)
  2. Search the codebase for usage of changed APIs. For each renamed/removed API, run separate searches for:

    • Direct calls and type references
    • String literals and dynamic access (obj["methodName"])
    • Import statements and re-exports
    • Test files and mocks

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 9d ago First seen · 134 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 59935a05103e

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dependency-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,722 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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