Dependency Drift — Development agent for Claude Code
Verifies that code — generated by @zanix/cli, or cited/claimed by a skill's own examples — still compiles against real, currently-published @zanix/ package versions.
How to install Dependency Drift
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/zanix-io-claude-skills-dependency-drift.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zanix-io/claude-skills/HEAD/.claude/agents/dependency-drift.md -o ~/.claude/agents/zanix-io-claude-skills-dependency-drift.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dependency Drift does
name: dependency-drift description: Verifies that code — generated by @zanix/cli, or cited/claimed by a skill's own examples — still compiles against real, currently-published @zanix/* package versions. Merges "API compatibility" and "dependency drift" into one check, since they're the same underlying question. Distinct from dependency-direction-sweep (whether the CURRENT cross-repo import graph obeys tier ordering — a direction/circularity check, not an API-compiles-against-reality one). Us
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