deps-update

deps-update is a skill for Claude Code from oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,475 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for updating outdated Elixir packages from Hex, the package registry used by Elixir projects. It checks changelogs, applies updates, fixes resulting breakages, and groups the changes into reviewable pull requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory outdated dependencies, apply patch or package-specific updates, handle breaking changes, and verify the project still compiles and its tests pass.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of upgrading dependencies blindly or combining too many unrelated version changes in one review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the phx plugin — 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inventory outdated dependencies, apply patch or package-specific updates, handle breaking changes, and verify the project still compiles and its tests pass.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix/deps-update
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 oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix --skill deps-update
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install phx, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills, 26 agents, 10 hooks.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,475 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 Excessive Agency · line 32
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00060 $0.01475
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00737
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00147

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4306c001fd9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deps-update 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 6d 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/elixir-phoenix/skills/deps-update/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Update (Freshness)

Inventory → update → fix breaks → grouped PRs. This is the only MUTATING deps skill: it edits mix.exs, mix.lock, and source. Security scanning stays in /phx:deps-audit; the vet ledger stays in /phx:deps-vet.

Usage

/phx:deps-update                       # inventory + interactive scope pick
/phx:deps-update --scope patch         # bundle all patch bumps, one PR
/phx:deps-update --pkg phoenix_live_view   # one package (+ coupled group)
/phx:deps-update --dry-run             # inventory only, no changes

Iron Laws

  1. NEVER cross a major version without an explicit mix.exs editmix deps.update stays within requirements. Edit the constraint first; add override: true only when mix hex.outdated <pkg> shows a transitive consumer blocking. One major per PR
  2. ALWAYS snapshot the changelog delta BEFORE updating — capture deps/<pkg>/CHANGELOG.md, then delta via mix hex.package diff. Never update blind
  3. NEVER claim an update is safe without verification — run /phx:verify (compile --warnings-as-errors + test). "Compiles" ≠ "works"
  4. ALWAYS move coupled packages together — Phoenix core, Ecto, Ash, Oban, telemetry families update in the SAME step/commit (see ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/coupled-groups.md)
  5. NEVER commit a partial bumpmix.lock + mix.exs edits + (for Phoenix-family) assets/package-lock.json in ONE commit
  6. HAND OFF security to /phx:deps-audit — run it on the lock diff before any PR; don't reimplement audit rules
  7. hex.outdated exit 1 is normal — it means "deps are outdated", not failure. Capture with || true

Workflow

Phase 0: Discover

Read mix.exs: deps list, umbrella (apps_path:), git/path deps, private orgs (organization:/repo: in tuples), Phoenix/Ash presence. Create scratch dir .claude/deps-update/{YYYY-MM-DD}/.

Phase 1: Inventory

mix hex.outdated --all || true — parse the text table (no JSON exists; see ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/update-mechanics.md). Classify each row patch/minor/major by semver delta; Update not possible = blocked major (mix.exs constraint). Write inventory.md to scratch. Render grouped table: Patch / Minor / Major / Blocked / Git-deps (manual). --dry-run stops here.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 123 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 4306c001fd9c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deps-update is a skill published in the GitHub repository oliver-kriska/claude-elixir-phoenix (542 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,475 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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