Batch the minor and patch bumps for one package group
A quarter of small version bumps, taken as one group, with whatever they break fixed in the same pull request.
The ticket
Bring one group of dependencies up to their latest minor and patch releases and fix whatever the bumps break.
Acceptance criteria
- Every package in the group is on its latest minor or patch release
- The full suite passes against the new versions
- Any behaviour change is handled in code, not pinned around
- The description summarises what changed in each package
What lands as proof
The lockfile diff, a green suite, and a short summary of what moved and why anything needed a code change.
Why teams defer it
- Each bump is trivial and there are forty of them, which makes it a chore nobody wants to start and nobody can finish in a gap between meetings.
- Left alone the gap widens until the next major upgrade has to cross two years of changes at once.
Questions
- What does the agent actually change?
- The ticket is scoped to one outcome: bring one group of dependencies up to their latest minor and patch releases and fix whatever the bumps break. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.
- How do I know the work is done?
- The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means lockfile diff, green suite, changelog summary in the description, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.
- How much oversight does this need?
- None is required before the run starts. Every claim this ticket makes can be checked by machine, so the agent works straight through and a person reviews the finished pull request like any other.