Dependency Manager

Dependency Manager is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by jpicklyk in task-orchestrator.

206 stars20 forkson jpicklyk/task-orchestratorAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/08/04

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Install Dependency Manager

Copy Dependency Manager into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator/tree/main/claude-plugins/task-orchestrator/skills/dependency-manager ~/.claude/skills/dependency-manager

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/jpicklyk/task-orchestrator.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: claude-plugins/task-orchestrator/skills/dependency-manager/SKILL.md in jpicklyk/task-orchestrator
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/dependency-manager
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1956 skills

What Dependency Manager does

Dependency Manager visualizes, creates, and deletes BLOCKS-style dependencies between MCP work items. Use it to see what blocks an item, link items, remove edges, or diagnose why work cannot start.

Dependency Manager is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Dependency Manager comes from a repository tagged ai-coding-assistant, ai-development, ai-harness, ai-memory and ai-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

dependency-manager — Dependency Visualization, Creation, and Diagnosis

Manage BLOCKS, IS_BLOCKED_BY, and RELATES_TO edges between work items. Handles all four paths: view existing dependencies, create new edges, delete edges, and diagnose why items cannot start.

Step 1: Determine Intent

Classify the user request before making any tool calls.

Resolve $ARGUMENTS to a UUID via query_items search (operation="search", query=$ARGUMENTS, limit=5); if ambiguous, present matches via AskUserQuestion. If $ARGUMENTS is already a UUID, default intent to VIEW for that item.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Dependency Manager provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Dependency Manager

What else does jpicklyk publish alongside Dependency Manager?
Dependency Manager is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from jpicklyk/task-orchestrator, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include API Compatibility Review, Adopt Project Scope and Batch Complete. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dependency Manager does, and is maintained by jpicklyk in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the jpicklyk/task-orchestrator page.
How does Dependency Manager compare to other Automation skills?
Dependency Manager ranks #1726 by stars among the 1956 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Dependency Manager against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.