Dependency Upgrade

Dependency Upgrade is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by sangrokjung in claude-forge.

806 stars175 forkson sangrokjung/claude-forgeAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/21

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Install Dependency Upgrade

Copy Dependency Upgrade 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/sangrokjung/claude-forge/tree/main/skills/dependency-upgrade ~/.claude/skills/dependency-upgrade

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/sangrokjung/claude-forge.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/dependency-upgrade/SKILL.md in sangrokjung/claude-forge
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/dependency-upgrade
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Dependency Upgrade does

Dependency Upgrade helps manage major package version changes with compatibility checks, staged rollout plans, and testing. Use it when upgrading frameworks, handling breaking changes, or automating dependency updates.

Dependency Upgrade is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Dependency Upgrade comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-assistant, ai-coding, ai-framework and ai-pair-programming.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Dependency Upgrade

Master major dependency version upgrades, compatibility analysis, staged upgrade strategies, and comprehensive testing approaches.

When to Use This Skill

Upgrading major framework versions
Updating security-vulnerable dependencies
Modernizing legacy dependencies
Resolving dependency conflicts
Planning incremental upgrade paths
Testing compatibility matrices
Automating dependency updates

Semantic Versioning Review

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (e.g., 2.3.1)

MAJOR: Breaking changes
MINOR: New features, backward compatible
PATCH: Bug fixes, backward compatible

^2.3.1 = >=2.3.1 <3.0.0 (minor updates)
~2.3.1 = >=2.3.1 <2.4.0 (patch updates)
2.3.1 = exact version

Dependency Analysis

Audit Dependencies

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

Commands Dependency Upgrade 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 Upgrade

What else does sangrokjung publish alongside Dependency Upgrade?
Dependency Upgrade is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sangrokjung/claude-forge, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include BigCode Evaluation Harness, Blind Spot Pass and Build System. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dependency Upgrade does, and is maintained by sangrokjung in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sangrokjung/claude-forge page.
How does Dependency Upgrade compare to other DevOps skills?
Dependency Upgrade ranks #534 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Upgrade against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.