upgrade-dependencies SKILL.md skillA
upgrade-dependencies from nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/upgrade-dependencies@git:20261103.96de44ePins git:20261103.96de44e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills
- Path
upgrade-dependencies/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261103.96de44e, committed Nov 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 29, 2026
- Size
- 6,245 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
upgrade frontend dependencies, backend dependencies, or mise tools through parallel worker tasks.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
you are the orchestrator. worker tasks own the dependency changes and PRs - task: the worker that owns 1 group. codex: a new thread visible in its desktop app. claude code: a desktop session, or a sub-agent as the fallback, per step 3 the prompt names the ecosystem, `npm`, `gem`, or `mise`. its branch file, [`npm.md`](npm.md), [`gem.md`](gem.md), or [`mise.md`](mise.md), holds everything ecosystem-specific for you and the workers; read it and [`worker.md`](worker.md) before step 1 modes: - default: non-major moves only. a dependency whose only newer stable releases are new majors is major-only: reported, never dispatched - `major` in the prompt: major-only dependencies only, each in a task of its own; non-major moves are out of scope 1. inventory direct dependencies - inspect the manifests and lockfile per the branch file without changing files - the desired version is the newest stable release the mode and the version ceilings below allow, whether or not the current constraint allows it - if a package manager or repository release-age policy blocks the desired version, target the newest earlier stable release in scope that has aged past the cap …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/upgrade-dependencies@sha256:7190801534a816a4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.96de44e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 3, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261103.96de44e latest | 2026-11-03 | 96de44e | 6,245 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.cf7b8c0 | 2026-10-29 | cf7b8c0 | 6,510 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261029.1973948 | 2026-10-29 | 1973948 | 6,408 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6245 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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Source
nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tjmpgbmo63454tun GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/upgrade-dependencies GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7190801534a816a4dfdc99ea61967c07d06f68ced32a7ef6d59ebc57b0004359
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