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Dependicus, a dashboard for your monorepo's dependencies

Dependicus, a dashboard for your monorepo's dependencies

by irskep·Apr 15, 2026·6 points·1 comment

AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemBig Brain

Auto-assigns dependency tickets to coding agents — Dependabot-but-better for monorepos.

Strengths
  • Agent-driven updates handle API changes, not just version bumps — genuine differentiation
  • Shows which teams drifted to different versions of same dependency — visibility others lack
  • Plugin system and multi-package-manager support (pnpm, bun, Go, Rust) adds flexibility
Weaknesses
  • Dependency management is crowded — Dependabot, Renovate, Snyk already dominate
  • Early stage with limited adoption signals — 'young open source project' caveat
Target Audience

Engineering teams maintaining large monorepos

Similar To

Dependabot · Renovate · Snyk

Post Description

Late last year, I was digging into some dependency-related tech debt, and struggling with how long it takes to run pnpm's introspection commands like 'pnpm why' in a medium-size monorepo. So I started working on a simple static site generator that would let me view the output of these expensive commands all at once, to make problems clearly visible instead of requiring deep exploration one at a time.

Once I had that working, I realized I had enough data to add ticket tracking. It uses the data it gathers from the package manager to keep Linear or GitHub issues updated. And by auto-assigning those issues to coding agents, I get a Dependabot-but-better experience: agents keep up with API updates in addition to just bumping versions, and group related updates automatically.

It's still early days, but it's working really well for us and I think people will find value in it, so I'm sharing here!

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