Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill dependency-upgradegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kitWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/dependency-upgrade)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/dependency-upgrade"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/dependency-upgrade/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/dependency-upgrade"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/dependency-upgrade.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Prompt Injection · line 10 Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.01297 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00519 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00259 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
dependency-upgrade 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dependency Upgrade
Trigger phrases: "upgrade dependencies", "outdated packages", "bump versions", "update packages", "keep dependencies current"
When
Staying on current versions as an ongoing practice, or reacting to a CVE. [[dependency-audit]] tells you what is wrong; this decides what to do about it and does it. It mutates the manifest and the lockfile, so it carries the same shape as [[db-migration]]: detect the tool, classify by risk, gate the dangerous class behind approval, apply, verify, roll back on red.
1 — Ask the three separate questions
They are three different problems with three different answers, and the tooling keeps them separate too.
| Question | Node | .NET | Python |
|---|---|---|---|
| What has a known CVE? | npm audit --json |
dotnet list package --vulnerable |
pip-audit |
| What is deprecated? | npm view <pkg> deprecated |
dotnet list package --deprecated |
registry / project notes |
| What is simply behind? | npm outdated --json |
dotnet list package --outdated |
pip list --outdated |
The three
dotnet list packageflags cannot be combined — it is three separate runs, not one.
Deprecated is not an upgrade. No version bump fixes it; the package needs a replacement, which is a design change with its own review — never fold it into a routine bump.
2 — Classify every target version before touching anything
The risk is not "how old is it", it is "how far does the jump go".
| Class | Rule | Approval |
|---|---|---|
| Security patch | fixes a known CVE, within the current major | Do it first, on its own commit — it is the one upgrade whose delay has a cost |
Patch (x.y.Z) |
bugfix only | Apply, batched |
Minor (x.Y.z) |
additive, backward compatible by promise | Apply, batched, only if the suite is green afterwards |
Major (X.y.z) |
breaking by definition | Never automatic. Read the changelog/migration guide, one package per commit, and say what breaks |
| Pinned / transitive-only | pinned deliberately, or not a direct dependency | Leave it. Find out why it is pinned before unpinning |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 85 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0deeba48da85
dependency-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,297 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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