Dependency Sweep

The deliberate, no-bot way to stay current. Shared versions live once in the catalog: block of pnpm-workspace.yaml (#142); this skill sweeps for updates, ships the safe ones through a gate, and tracks the rest. It does not chase latest blindly — for this codebase even some minor/patch framework bumps need a small package-side type fix first (precedent: nuxt 4.4 → #241, vue 3.5.38 → #242).

Why no Renovate/Dependabot: decided in #141/#143 — PR firehose, not help, for a solo dev. On-demand taze + this skill replaces it.

Step 1 — Sweep: what's available?

Get the gap between the catalog floors and latest. taze is catalog-aware but can be slow/blocked on a restricted network — fall back to npm view per dep.

npx taze minor -r            # review patch/minor across the workspace (no -w yet)
npx taze major -r            # majors, review only
# Fallback if taze hangs (network): direct check of the cataloged set
for p in nuxt vue vue-router typescript wrangler @libsql/client drizzle-orm drizzle-kit @nuxt/ui; do
  printf "%-16s " "$p"; npm view "$p" version
done

Read the current floors from pnpm-workspace.yaml (catalog:) and build a gap table: package | catalog floor | latest | gap (patch/minor/major).

Step 2 — Triage into buckets

Bucket	What	Action
Safe	patch/minor on leaf deps (DB, tooling — drizzle, libsql, etc.)	bump now, this PR
Deliberate (in-major)	big in-major jumps that touch every surface (@nuxt/ui, wrangler)	own gated bump / own issue
Wait	real majors that must follow Nuxt's supported range (vue-router, typescript)	hold; record why, re-check next sweep

Framework minors (nuxt, vue) are "safe-looking" but not auto-safe here — run them through the gate (Step 4); if red, demote to its own type:fix pkg:* issue and hold the floor. Don't force a red bump into the safe PR.

Step 3 — Bump the single dial

• Edit only the catalog: block in pnpm-workspace.yaml. Never per-package.
• Transitive singletons that no package declares directly (vue, zod, @tiptap/*) live in root package.json → pnpm.overrides, not the catalog (#140). If you bump vue/nuxt, bump their pnpm.overrides floor to match so the lockfile actually moves.
• Keep package peer ranges wide (^3 || ^4) — untouched.
• @playwright/test is special — sync the E2E container tag. If you bump it, also bump the CI image tag in .github/workflows/e2e.yml (container: mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v<x.y.z>-jammy) to the same version. The image ships the matching Chromium + system libs, so a drift makes Playwright warn about a browser/library version mismatch — and the whole point of that container is to be version-matched (#392/#395).

pnpm install            # regenerates the lockfile

⚠️ Caret ranges don't downgrade. ^4.3.1 already satisfies an installed 4.4.8, so lowering the caret will NOT revert it. To back out a bump, reset the files and the lockfile, then reinstall:

git checkout pnpm-workspace.yaml package.json pnpm-lock.yaml && pnpm install

Step 4 — The gate (MANDATORY before commit)

pnpm -r --filter './apps/*' typecheck      # all apps must be green

Then the runtime check — invoke the e2e-smoke skill (pick the fixture that exercises the change; minimal covers core/auth/CRUD/DB).

⚠️ Stale-install gotcha: a Cannot find module '@vue/compiler-sfc' from nuxt typecheck is NOT a real error — it's an unhoisted node_modules after repeated checkout/installs. Fix: rm -rf node_modules && pnpm install, then re-run. Establish a clean baseline typecheck before blaming a bump.

• Green → ship.
• Red → identify the offending dep, hold its floor, open a type:fix pkg:* issue describing the failure (see #241/#242 for the format), and ship the rest.

Step 5 — Track + commit

• Follow ISSUE-FIRST: the dependency epic is #233; open/update the relevant sub-issue (safe-bump issue, or a new type:fix pkg:* for a red dep).
• Commit with /commit — chore(root): …, reference (#NN). The deliverable is pnpm-workspace.yaml + pnpm-lock.yaml (+ any pnpm.overrides).
• Open a PR (don't push to main); the e2e smoke runs in CI as the real gate (the local container can't download the Playwright chromium binary).

Step 6 — If this was the recurring sweep

Re-arm the cadence: open next quarter's "Quarterly dependency sweep — due <+3 months>" ticket (link #233), then close the current one. Re-check the standing deliberate/wait items (#235 @nuxt/ui, #236 wrangler, #237 TS6/vue-router5) each sweep.

Known catalog gaps (carry forward)

• Several packages pin drizzle directly instead of via catalog:, so old copies linger after a bump. Catalog-ising those is a separate cleanup.
• vitest / @vitest/coverage-v8 / happy-dom / @nuxt/kit|schema are deliberately not cataloged yet (version spreads need a real migration — #141).