Dependency Upgrader

Dependency Upgrader is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by levnikolaevich in claude-code-skills.

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Install Dependency Upgrader

Copy Dependency Upgrader 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/levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills/tree/master/plugins/optimization-suite/skills/ln-32-dependency-upgrader ~/.claude/skills/ln-32-dependency-upgrader

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/levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/optimization-suite/skills/ln-32-dependency-upgrader/SKILL.md in levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ln-32-dependency-upgrader
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Dependency Upgrader does

Dependency Upgrader updates packages in small batches with breaking-change research and verification. Use it for dependency maintenance across package managers when you need compatibility-checked upgrades and rollback-safe changes.

Dependency Upgrader is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Dependency Upgrader comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, anthropic, claude-code and claude-code-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Dependency Upgrader

Goal: Upgrade dependencies in small, attributable batches. Preserve manifests, lockfiles, runtime support, and product behavior; do not treat a newer version as valuable without compatibility, security, or maintenance evidence.

Execution contract: Treat the ordered checkbox workflow below as this skill's Definition of Done. Work through every item in order, and mark it complete only when its action and required evidence are complete. N/A, skipped, unavailable, or delegated items remain incomplete. Before returning, apply this skill's verdict, decision, and approval rules to every incomplete item and prepend Checklist: X/Y completeIncomplete: None | section/item — reason; outcome impact; exact next action; list every incomplete item.

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

Frequently asked about Dependency Upgrader

What else does levnikolaevich publish alongside Dependency Upgrader?
Dependency Upgrader is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acceptance Test Builder, Architecture Auditor and Architecture Decision Recorder. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Dependency Upgrader does, and is maintained by levnikolaevich in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the levnikolaevich/claude-code-skills page.
How does Dependency Upgrader compare to other DevOps skills?
Dependency Upgrader ranks #671 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 Upgrader against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.