Dependency Upgrade Review with Claude Code: Result JSON Schema
A production playbook for dependency upgrade review in cross-industry operations using Claude Code: result json schema, 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
Define the outer result contract once, let the dependency upgrade review skill own body.data, and reject terminal output that does not match the expected schema.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Schema enforcement adds upfront design work, but removes prompt parsing from the product surface. 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.
Result shape
{
"schema_version": "argo.result.v1",
"summary": "dependency upgrade review completed",
"body": { "type": "dependency_upgrade_review", "data": {}, "exceptions": [] },
"artifacts": []
}
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