gen-dependency-updater

gen-dependency-updater is a skill for Claude Code from thettwe/nyann. It costs 231 tokens per session (1,716 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A generator for Dependabot or Renovate configuration, tools that create pull requests for outdated software dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps add or switch between dependency-update setups for GitHub repositories and other platforms supported by Renovate.
Why use it?
It removes the need to write the updater configuration manually and previews the proposed file before applying it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: arguments in frontmatter.

Part of the nyann plugin — 41 skills, 41 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps add or switch between dependency-update setups for GitHub repositories and other platforms supported by Renovate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thettwe/nyann/gen-dependency-updater
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 thettwe/nyann --skill gen-dependency-updater
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thettwe/nyann

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nyann, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 41 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 231 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,716 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 $0.00231 $0.01716
Opus 5 $0.00115 $0.00858
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00343
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00172

Measured 10d ago against content hash df21948ccde0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gen-dependency-updater 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 10d 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/gen-dependency-updater/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gen-dependency-updater

Wraps bin/gen-dependency-updater.sh. Emits a Dependabot or Renovate config; preview-by-default; idempotent on apply.

When to trigger

  • User wants automated dependency PRs and doesn't already have either config wired up.
  • User wants to migrate Dependabot ↔ Renovate.
  • User wants to re-generate the config after upgrading nyann (the template defaults shift with each snapshot_version).

When NOT to trigger

  • User wants to manually upgrade a specific dep — that's npm install, pip install -U, cargo update, etc.
  • User wants help resolving a Dependabot/Renovate PR — read the PR diff with them; this skill is for config generation only.
  • User is in a non-GitHub forge — Dependabot is GitHub-specific. Renovate runs anywhere but its app installation is out of scope for this skill.

Picking updater (when the user hasn't specified)

Default to dependabot when:

  • The repo is on GitHub (which is nyann's gh-integration assumption).
  • The user wants minimal moving parts (Dependabot is native to GH, no app to install).

Default to renovate when:

  • The user mentions multi-platform forge support.
  • The user wants advanced grouping / customization (Renovate's package rules are richer than Dependabot's groups).
  • The user is already a Renovate user on other repos.

When in doubt, ask:

"Dependabot is GitHub-native and zero-install — recommended for most. Renovate is more configurable but requires installing the Renovate GitHub App. Which do you want?"

Picking ecosystems

Read the StackDescriptor (from bin/detect-stack.sh) and map:

Stack hint Ecosystem(s)
primary_language=typescript / javascript npm
primary_language=python pip
primary_language=go gomod
primary_language=rust cargo
primary_language=ruby bundler
primary_language=php composer
primary_language=java (Maven) maven
primary_language=java (Gradle) / kotlin gradle
primary_language=dart pub
primary_language=csharp / dotnet nuget
primary_language=elixir mix (v1.10+)
primary_language=swift swift
Dockerfile present docker (in addition to language ecosystem)
.github/workflows/ present github-actions (always recommended)

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 10d ago First seen · 160 lines · 231 tokens per session scan A df21948ccde0

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gen-dependency-updater is a skill published in the GitHub repository thettwe/nyann (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 231 tokens to every session and 1,716 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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