dependency-upgrade-management SKILL.md skillA
dependency-upgrade-management from aethrox/doctrine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/dependency-upgrade-management@git:20260809.2a45dbbPins git:20260809.2a45dbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aethrox/doctrine
- Path
skills/dependency-upgrade-management/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260809.2a45dbb, committed Aug 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 5,289 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Discipline for keeping dependencies current and deprecating capabilities safely, an inventory (SBOM) of what's actually shipped, security patches on a fast lane separate from routine/major upgrades, and a stated deprecation window (Sunset/Deprecation headers, N-2 support) before removing anything consumers rely on. Use when upgrading a dependency, triaging a Dependabot/Renovate PR, deciding whether an upgrade is safe to automerge, or planning to deprecate or remove a capability others depend on.
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
# Dependency & Upgrade Management A dependency is code you didn't write but do ship; it needs the same update discipline as your own code, except split into lanes by risk: a security patch and a major-version upgrade are different kinds of change with different urgency, and treating them identically means either shipping security fixes too slowly or shipping breaking changes too casually. ## Phase 1: Know what you ship (SBOM) Before triaging any upgrade, the project needs an accurate inventory of its dependency tree, not just its direct `package.json`/`requirements.txt`/`Cargo.toml` entries; transitive dependencies carry just as much risk and are the ones people forget about. - Generate a **Software Bill of Materials** (SBOM) in CycloneDX or SPDX format as part of the build, not as a one-off manual export; an SBOM that's stale by the next release doesn't answer "what are we actually running" when a new CVE drops. - The SBOM is what a dependency-vulnerability scan (see `secure-coding`'s Phase 4) runs against; inventory and scanning are two steps of the same discipline, not separate concerns. ## Phase 2: Two lanes, not one queue …
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How to install
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/dependency-upgrade-management@sha256:28dfbaf4ea04c285The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.2a45dbb, 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 4 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 9, 2026.
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| git:20260809.2a45dbb latest | 2026-08-09 | 2a45dbb | 5,289 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.b0bf5b5 | 2026-08-09 | b0bf5b5 | 5,193 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.5c2aad2 | 2026-08-09 | 5c2aad2 | 5,151 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.21f29b0 | 2026-08-09 | 21f29b0 | 5,196 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ur2gf3fp2ddmcgsz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/dependency-upgrade-management GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/28dfbaf4ea04c285c921b95c62a08e9022a1d30605bc0c52137b55f6e49c34cf
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