Group outdated packages by upgrade difficulty
Before a big dependency upgrade, Kent asked Cursor to list every outdated package grouped into easy, medium and hard buckets.
- Agent or tool
- Cursor
- Topic
- Software Development
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Coding agents are moving from autocomplete to doing whole tasks: reading a codebase, making a plan and changing many files. This case is a concrete example of where that works in practice. It is one of 106 sightings filed under Software Development on Agent Sightings (number 27 by interest), and one of 30 involving Cursor.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Cursor or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
List every package in this project that is not on the latest version, grouped by upgrade difficulty (easy patch/minor, medium single major, hard multi-major or framework-critical). Include current and latest versions.
Tip: Work on a fresh branch, ask for a plan before edits, and review the diff and test results before merging.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/how-i-used-cursor-to-migrate-frameworks. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.
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