update-deps

update-deps is a skill for Claude Code from jeffrigby/somepulp-agents. It costs 42 tokens per session (4,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for updating JavaScript and TypeScript project dependencies, which are the external packages a project relies on. It applies permitted minor and patch updates, then assesses major updates before applying them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for npm, pnpm, or Yarn projects, including monorepos—projects containing multiple related packages in one repository—for safely reviewing and applying dependency upgrades.
Why use it?
It reduces upgrade risk by separating routine updates from major changes that may break the codebase, and explains major updates it does not apply.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the codebase-health plugin — 6 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for npm, pnpm, or Yarn projects, including monorepos—projects containing multiple related packages in one repository—for safely reviewing and applying dependency upgrades.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jeffrigby/somepulp-agents
Claude Code
/plugin install codebase-health

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codebase-health, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 7 agents.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,231 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 $0.00042 $0.04231
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01692
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00846
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00423

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6426c7671ff1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

plugins/codebase-health/skills/update-deps/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Update Dependencies (Orchestrator)

Bring a JavaScript project's dependencies current in two passes: apply everything the declared ranges already permit, then decide per package whether each pending major is safe for this codebase — and report the ones that aren't, with a reason the user can act on.

You are the conductor. major-upgrade-analyzer subagents do the per-major research; you sequence, gate, apply, and verify.

Modes requested (optional): "$ARGUMENTS"

Scope

JavaScript/TypeScript only — npm, pnpm, and yarn (classic and berry), detected from the lockfile or the packageManager field. If the project has no package.json, stop and say so; don't improvise with pip or cargo.

Monorepos are supported: findings are attributed to the workspace that declared them, and upgrades are applied to that workspace rather than the root.

Modes

Split $ARGUMENTS on whitespace:

Token Effect
minors-only Apply in-range updates only. No major analysis.
majors-only Skip the in-range pass. Analyze and apply majors against the versions already installed.
dry-run Do all the analysis, change nothing. The approval gate is skipped and the plan is the output.
sequential Analyze majors one at a time instead of in parallel. Slower; useful for debugging a stuck analyzer.

Anything else is a scope hint passed to every analyzer (e.g. a path, or "src/ only").

Default: both passes, majors analyzed in parallel, one approval gate covering both.

Workflow

The order matters: nothing is written until the single approval gate in step 5. That means the outdated snapshot is taken before any update runs, so the plan and the final report can both name exact from → to versions.

1. Preconditions

  1. Confirm package.json exists. If not, stop.
  2. Run git status --porcelain. A dirty tree is not a blocker — this skill never commits and never reverts — but if package.json or the lockfile already has uncommitted changes, tell the user before touching them, so they know what's theirs and what's yours.
  3. Detect the toolchain:

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 1mo ago First seen · 299 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6426c7671ff1

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update-deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffrigby/somepulp-agents (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 4,231 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 2026-09-11.

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