Dependency Upgrade and Compatibility Planner
Plan safe framework and dependency upgrades with compatibility analysis, migration steps, tests, rollout, and rollback.
Dependency Upgrade and Compatibility Planner is a free AI skill for code improvement. Plan safe framework and dependency upgrades with compatibility analysis, migration steps, tests, rollout, and rollback. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and is ready to use out of the box.
About this skill
Dependency Upgrade and Compatibility Planner helps teams upgrade frameworks, runtimes, libraries, SDKs, and build tooling without uncontrolled breakage. It identifies breaking changes, transitive dependencies, deprecated APIs, environment requirements, migration order, test coverage, rollout, and rollback.
What it does
The skill reviews manifests, lockfiles, release notes, compatibility matrices, code usage, and deployment constraints; groups upgrades by risk; identifies blockers and sequencing; creates migration and validation tasks; and produces a phased upgrade plan with acceptance criteria.
What is included
- Dependency inventory
- Breaking-change analysis
- Compatibility matrix
- Upgrade grouping and order
- Code migration tasks
- Test requirements
- Rollout and monitoring plan
- Rollback criteria
How to use it
1. Download the dependency-upgrade-and-compatibility-planner-SKILL.md file 2. Upload it to your development workspace 3. Provide manifests, lockfiles, current versions, target versions, and codebase constraints 4. Add CI, deployment, runtime, and support requirements 5. Use the plan to implement upgrades incrementally
Examples
Plan an upgrade from Node.js 18 to 22, React 18 to 19, and a major Next.js version while preserving current production behavior.
A phased compatibility plan with runtime checks, dependency groups, breaking changes, code migrations, test coverage, canary rollout, monitoring, and rollback criteria.
FAQ
What is this skill for?
Can it read release notes?
Should all dependencies be upgraded together?
How does it handle transitive dependencies?
Can it include rollout planning?
How is this different from running an automated updater?
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