dependency-upgrade

dependency-upgrade is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,959 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for updating software packages safely across projects. It groups updates by risk, handling development packages and small fixes before larger runtime-version changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect outdated packages, respond to security advisories, update dependencies in batches, verify the application after each batch, and create an auditable sequence of commits.
Why use it?
It prevents many unrelated package changes from being mixed together, making failures easier to identify. Tests are run between groups, and each major-version update is kept separate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect outdated packages, respond to security advisories, update dependencies in batches, verify the application after each batch, and create an auditable sequence of commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-gsd/gsd-pi/dependency-upgrade
About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,205 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

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 open-gsd/gsd-pi --skill dependency-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,959 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 142
    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 $0.00090 $0.01959
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00979
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00196

Measured 8d ago against content hash aca1956bc317, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

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 8d 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.

src/resources/skills/dependency-upgrade/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.

Invocation points:

  • /gsd start dep-upgrade workflow is running
  • Ad-hoc "bump the deps" request
  • Security advisory response (CVE in a direct dep)
  • Framework major-version update (React 18 → 19, Node LTS bump)
  • Monthly hygiene pass

<core_principle> BATCH BY RISK, NOT BY LAZINESS. npm update is a shortcut that blends safe and risky changes into one commit. When something breaks, you can't tell which dep caused it. Always separate: patches and dev-deps first, minors next, majors individually.

VERIFY BETWEEN BATCHES. Run the test suite after every batch. Don't stack five batches and hope. If a batch breaks something, you need to know which one.

ONE MAJOR PER COMMIT. Major version bumps are where real breakage lives. Keep them isolated so the commit history tells the truth. </core_principle>

Step 1: Take inventory

Run the ecosystem's outdated check. Capture output, don't act on it yet:

  • Node: npm outdated or pnpm outdated or yarn outdated
  • Python: pip list --outdated or uv pip list --outdated
  • Rust: cargo outdated
  • Ruby: bundle outdated
  • Go: go list -m -u all

Also capture:

  • npm audit (or equivalent) — security advisories
  • Current versions of language runtime, build tool, test runner

Step 2: Classify each outdated package

For each outdated package, note:

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 8d ago First seen · 159 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A aca1956bc317

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dependency-upgrade is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,205 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,959 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 2026-08-30.