Dependency Upgrade Review with Claude Code: API Runtime Pattern
A production playbook for dependency upgrade review in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: api runtime pattern, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Engineering teams managing package risk
The problem
Engineering teams managing package risk need dependency upgrade review to run repeatedly against lockfiles, changelogs, advisories, and test logs. In cross-industry operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Package the dependency upgrade review instructions as a skill, send lockfiles, changelogs, advisories, and test logs as run-scoped inputs, execute with Claude Code, poll terminal status, and consume argo.result.v1 instead of parsing a transcript.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
The API boundary forces the workflow to define inputs, terminal states, and result shape before customers depend on it. For dependency upgrade review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Run request
POST /api/skills/<skill_id>/run
provider=claude-code
workflow=dependency-upgrade-review
inputs[]=@./input-pack.zip
result_schema=argo.result.v1
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