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Dependency Steward — Project Management agent for Claude Code

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Manage safe library versions, pinning, and upgrades with clear risk notes.

How to install Dependency Steward

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/paulduvall-claude-code-dependency-steward.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PaulDuvall/claude-code/HEAD/subagents/dependency-steward.md -o ~/.claude/agents/paulduvall-claude-code-dependency-steward.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Dependency Steward does

name: dependency-steward description: Manage safe library versions, pinning, and upgrades with clear risk notes. version: 1.0.0 author: Claude Dev Toolkit Team tags: [dependency-management, security] tools: Read, Write, Bash created: 2025-08-19 modified: 2026-04-03

Goal

  • Keep dependencies current without breaking main.

Inputs

  • requirements*.txt/poetry.lock/pipfile.lock, package* files

Rules

  • Pin versions; document risks; prefer minor/patch first.
  • Never upgrade across major withou

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