upgrade-nextjs

upgrade-nextjs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Phaedra-Solutions/cursor-rules. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,943 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for upgrading a Next.js web application one major version at a time, keeping its React packages aligned and applying official code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upgrade Next.js, run codemods, update changed APIs and configuration, and verify the application with builds, tests, and a basic page check.
Why use it?
It reduces breaking changes by handling framework, React, configuration, and Node version compatibility together instead of changing them all at once.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to upgrade Next.js, run codemods, update changed APIs and configuration, and verify the application with builds, tests, and a basic page check.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/phaedra-solutions/cursor-rules/upgrade-nextjs
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Phaedra-Solutions/cursor-rules --skill upgrade-nextjs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Phaedra-Solutions/cursor-rules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,943 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 $0.00106 $0.02943
Opus 5.5 $0.00042 $0.01177
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00294

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9c3316fb0240, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upgrade-nextjs 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 3d 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.

skills/upgrade-nextjs/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upgrade Next.js

When to use

  • The user asks to upgrade Next.js, or to move off an unsupported or vulnerable version.
  • The installed next is below the applies_to range of frontend/nextjs (16.x) and the user agrees to upgrade.
  • A security fix exists only in a newer major (14.x gets no fixes; 15.x gets them only through 31 Jan 2027).

For a patch or minor upgrade within the same major, skip to step 3 with upgrade patch or upgrade minor. For moving pages/ to app/, see the migration path in legacy/nextjs-pages-router; don't combine it with a major upgrade.

Before you start

  • Read exact versions from the lockfile: next, react, react-dom, @types/react, @types/react-dom, eslint-config-next, typescript, and the Node version (.nvmrc, engines, Dockerfile, CI).

  • The working tree must be clean. Ask the user to commit or stash first; work on a new branch (for example chore/next-16).

  • Ask the user:

    • the target version (default: latest 16.x, currently 16.4.3), and whether to stop after each major for review;
    • where it's deployed (Vercel, another adapter, Docker or Node self-hosting, static export) and whether middleware.ts relies on the Edge runtime;
    • whether codemods may edit files (they do; run them with --dry first when unsure);
    • whether network installs are approved. Follow the release-age cooldown in core/supply-chain; a security patch inside the cooldown needs the user's explicit exception.
  • Plan the hops. Upgrade one major at a time: 13 → 14 → 15 → 16. Before each hop, move to the latest patch of the current major.

  • Plan React alongside each hop, using the matching major:

    Next.js App Router needs Pages Router accepts Node
    14.x React 18.2+ React 18.2+ ≥ 18.17
    15.x React 19 React 18.2+ or 19 ≥ 18.18
    16.x React 19 React 18.2+ or 19 ≥ 20.9 (use 22 or 24 LTS)

Steps

  1. Baseline. Run and record the results of a clean install, typecheck, lint, tests and next build. If the baseline already fails, show the failures and ask whether to continue; never blame them on the upgrade later.
  2. Patch the current major. For example, 14.x → 14.2.35 or 15.x → latest 15.5.x:

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 9c3316fb0240

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upgrade-nextjs is a skill published in the GitHub repository Phaedra-Solutions/cursor-rules (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,943 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-11-01.

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