awesome-dependency-upgrade

awesome-dependency-upgrade is a skill for Claude Code from khasky/awesome-agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for upgrading software dependencies, which are external packages a project relies on, in risk-based batches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Used to inventory versions, classify upgrades, handle major releases separately, apply security fixes, and verify each batch before continuing.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that many package changes hide a broken build or runtime problem and makes failures easier to trace or revert.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the awesome-agent-skills plugin — 42 skills shipped together

Good fit Used to inventory versions, classify upgrades, handle major releases separately, apply security fixes, and verify each batch before continuing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khasky/awesome-agent-skills/awesome-dependency-upgrade
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 khasky/awesome-agent-skills --skill awesome-dependency-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khasky/awesome-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awesome-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,294 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 35
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 $0.00096 $0.01294
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00647
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00129

Measured today against content hash 901816f565f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

awesome-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 today.

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/awesome-dependency-upgrade/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Upgrade

Execute dependency upgrades so that each step is verified and each batch is revertable. The failure mode this skill exists to prevent: a bulk bump to latest, a green-looking build, and a runtime break three days later that git bisect can't isolate because fifteen packages moved in one commit.

When to Activate

  • "Upgrade/update dependencies", "bump X to v9", "fix npm audit", a bot PR needs handling.
  • An awesome-dependency-audit report produced findings to remediate — this skill is its acting half.

Do not activate to decide whether a package is risky (the audit owns detection) or to add a new dependency (ask-first, outside both skills).

Work Process

  1. Inventory before touching — for each candidate: current resolved version (lockfile, not manifest), target version, direct or transitive, and why it's moving (security fix, feature need, hygiene). No reason → it waits; churn is not hygiene.
  2. Classify by risk and batch accordingly — lockfile-only refreshes and patch/minor bumps of well-locked packages batch together; every major goes alone, one at a time. Security-driven bumps jump the queue but follow the same verification.
  3. One upgrade concern per commit — never mix an upgrade with feature work or refactoring; the commit message names what moved and why. A batch is one revertable unit: if it breaks, one git revert restores the world.
  4. Majors are changelog-driven, not semver-trusted — read the release notes and migration guide for every major: the breaking-changes list is the work plan, not a formality. Run the project's codemod where one is offered before hand-editing. Semver is a promise, not a guarantee — treat "minor" bumps of frameworks and build tooling with major-grade suspicion, and check the installed version's own docs for renamed APIs rather than trusting memory.
  5. Verify between batches, not at the end — after each batch: install from lockfile, typecheck/build, full test suite, and read the output (exit codes, not vibes). A failure identifies its batch immediately; that is the entire point of batching.
  6. Review the lockfile diff as code — every added or changed entry accounted for by the manifest change that caused it; a surprise new package, a changed registry URL, or a new install script in the diff is a stop-and-investigate, not a shrug (awesome-dependency-audit Track A/B rules apply to the diff).
  7. Unfixed transitive CVE — when no upstream fix exists: pin with overrides/resolutions/constraints, comment the CVE id and the removal condition ("remove when send ≥ 0.19 reaches express"), and record it in the report. An override without a removal condition is how temporary pins become permanent archaeology.
  8. Bot PRs get the same treatment — automerge only patch-level bumps with a lockfile and a trustworthy CI suite; group bumps regenerate, never hand-merge conflicting lockfiles. A bot PR whose lockfile diff contains more than its manifest claims is declined and investigated.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. today Changed 901816f565f5
  2. 5d ago Changed · -19 tokens per session 0c5cc878b0db
  3. 11d ago First seen · 68 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 5b1d0ba992ff

Subscribe to this mod's changes

awesome-dependency-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository khasky/awesome-agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,294 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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