dependency-upgrade
Secure dependency upgrades with supply chain protection, cooldowns, and staged rollout. Use when upgrading deps, configuring security policies, or preventing supply chain attacks.
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Discovery
89%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is a solid description that clearly defines its niche around secure dependency upgrades with supply chain protection. It includes an explicit 'Use when' clause with good trigger terms. The main weakness is that the specific capabilities could be more granular—listing concrete actions like verifying checksums, enforcing version pinning, or scanning for malicious packages would strengthen it.
Suggestions
Expand the capability list with more concrete actions, e.g., 'verify package integrity, enforce version pinning, scan for malicious packages, apply cooldown periods before adopting new versions, and stage rollouts across environments'.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Names the domain (dependency upgrades, supply chain security) and mentions some actions (configuring security policies, preventing supply chain attacks), but doesn't list multiple concrete specific actions like 'verify package checksums, enforce cooldown periods, stage rollouts across environments'. | 2 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both what ('Secure dependency upgrades with supply chain protection, cooldowns, and staged rollout') and when ('Use when upgrading deps, configuring security policies, or preventing supply chain attacks') with an explicit 'Use when' clause. | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Includes strong natural trigger terms: 'dependency upgrades', 'deps', 'security policies', 'supply chain attacks', 'cooldowns', 'staged rollout'. These cover terms users would naturally use when dealing with this domain. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | The combination of supply chain protection, cooldowns, and staged rollout for dependency upgrades is a very specific niche. It's clearly distinguishable from generic dependency management or general security skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
85%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a strong, well-structured skill that provides comprehensive dependency upgrade guidance with excellent actionability and progressive disclosure. The main weakness is length—the interactive setup flow with extensive tables and some redundant pitfall items could be trimmed to improve token efficiency. Overall, it successfully balances being a quick reference while pointing to deeper resources.
Suggestions
Condense the interactive setup flow tables—Claude can infer option structures from briefer descriptions, and the detailed tables for every tier add ~100 lines that could be moved to a reference file.
Remove obvious pitfalls that Claude already knows (e.g., 'not reading breaking change notes', 'not having a rollback plan') to tighten the Common Pitfalls section.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The skill is fairly comprehensive but includes some unnecessary verbosity—the interactive setup flow with detailed tables for every option adds significant length, and some sections like 'Common Pitfalls' list items that Claude would already know (e.g., 'not reading breaking change notes'). However, most content is actionable and not padded with basic concept explanations. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides fully executable code snippets for every package manager, concrete bash commands, complete config file examples for Dependabot/Renovate, and copy-paste ready setup commands. The rollback script, testing commands, and lockfile-lint configuration are all directly usable. | 3 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The staged upgrade strategy has a clear sequence (branch → upgrade → test → commit), the testing strategy follows a pyramid (static → unit → build → e2e), and the upgrade checklist provides explicit validation checkpoints at pre-upgrade, during, and post-upgrade phases. The rollback plan includes an automated pass/fail check with recovery. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | Excellent progressive disclosure with a clear 'When to Load References' table mapping specific user needs to reference files, plus a template files table. The main SKILL.md provides quick-reference configs while pointing to detailed guides one level deep. The tiered interactive setup (Tier 1/2/3) also demonstrates good progressive disclosure within the document itself. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 11 / 12 Passed |
Validation
100%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 11 / 11 Passed
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