dependency-upgrader

A cautious process for updating the libraries and packages a project depends on. It checks release notes and migration instructions, makes upgrades separately, runs tests, and keeps a known rollback point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update packages, apply security fixes, move to a new major version, or review an automated dependency-update proposal across common programming ecosystems.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that a dependency update breaks unrelated code or introduces an overlooked change. It also makes failures easier to identify and undo.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/jayrha/agentskills/dependency-upgrader
Any agent
npx skills add JayRHa/AgentSkills --skill dependency-upgrader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayRHa/AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,936 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 $0.00115 $0.01936
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00968
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00194

Measured 2d ago against content hash c66e101b2905, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-upgrader 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check_outdated.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

dependency-upgrader/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Upgrader

Overview

This skill drives safe, auditable dependency upgrades across ecosystems (npm/yarn/pnpm, pip/poetry/uv, cargo, go modules, bundler, maven/gradle, composer). The core discipline: one upgrade per commit, tests green between each, and a known-good rollback point at all times. Never bulk-upgrade everything and hope.

Keywords: dependency upgrade, bump packages, outdated, semver, breaking change, changelog, migration guide, lockfile, CVE, security advisory, Dependabot, Renovate, rollback, npm audit, pip-audit.

Use this skill when the user wants to update libraries, patch a vulnerability, migrate a major version, or vet an automated bump PR.

Core Principles

  1. Isolate. One package (or one tightly-coupled group) per commit. A failed upgrade must be revertable without touching unrelated work.
  2. Read before you write. Always inspect the changelog / release notes / migration guide before bumping across a major version.
  3. Tiered risk. Patch < minor < major. Batch low-risk; isolate high-risk.
  4. Test gate. The test suite (or a defined verification command) must pass before each commit. No green, no commit.
  5. Always have a rollback. Know the exact git SHA and lockfile state to return to. See references/rollback.md.

Workflow

Follow these steps in order. Do not skip the inventory or the changelog read.

1. Establish a clean baseline

  • Confirm the working tree is clean (git status). If not, stop and ask the user how to proceed — never upgrade on top of uncommitted changes.
  • Record the current commit SHA as the rollback anchor.
  • Run the test suite once to confirm it is green before you start. If tests are already failing, report that and stop — you cannot attribute later failures otherwise.
  • Identify the ecosystem and the verification command. See references/ecosystems.md for the canonical commands per package manager.

2. Inventory outdated dependencies

  • Run the detector script: python3 scripts/check_outdated.py --dir <repo>. It auto-detects the ecosystem and prints a risk-tiered table (patch / minor / major) plus any known advisories it can surface from the native auditor.
  • Or run the native tool directly (npm outdated, pip list --outdated, cargo outdated, go list -m -u all) — see references/ecosystems.md.
  • Classify each candidate by semver jump and by whether it is a direct or transitive dependency.

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 159 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A c66e101b2905

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-upgrader is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayRHa/AgentSkills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,936 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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