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Dependency Upgrade Agent

An agent upgrades a dependency, fixes breaking changes and opens a PR with test results.

Advanced28h1–3 people15/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Dependency Upgrade Agent for maintainers of javascript projects in ~28h with 1–3 people. Stack: LLM + GitHub API + Node.js + Docker.

Why it wins: Real engineering value with a verifiable result.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Major version upgrades are postponed for months because fixing breakages is tedious.
02 · Solution
The agent reads the changelog, bumps the version, runs tests, edits code to fix failures in a loop and opens a PR with a summary.
03 · Build
  1. 1Clone the repo in a container
  2. 2Bump and run tests
  3. 3Loop LLM fixes on failing tests
  4. 4Open a PR via the API
04 · Demo
Upgrade a demo repo across a major version and show the green test run.

MVP checklist

  • Changelog reading
  • Test-fix loop
  • PR with summary
  • Rollback on failure

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
GitHub APIRepo + PR data
Node.jsBackend runtime
DockerContainers

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