# Run the routine chores

Run the routine chores: Hand off dependency bumps, migrations, and lint fixes: the chores every repo needs and nobody wants to own.

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Hand off dependency bumps, migrations, and lint fixes: the chores every repo needs and nobody wants to own.

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## The work

Describe the chore: bump a dependency, add a migration, fix a lint gate. An agent makes the change, runs the project's own checks, and opens a pull request. A person reviews it the same way they would review a person's change, and merges it.

## Why it stalls

Routine maintenance carries real risk if it breaks something, and no reward if it goes well. So it waits for a free afternoon that never comes.

How it runs

## Plan, code, review, merge, verify

1. plan Reads the chore's scope: the dependency, the migration, or the lint gate named.
2. code Makes the change and runs the project's own build and test commands against it.
3. review Checks the change did only what the chore asked, nothing wider.
4. merge Opens a pull request sized to one chore.
5. verify Confirms the project's own checks still pass after the change ships.

## What you need on hand

- The chore, named plainly: which dependency, which migration, which gate
- The project's own build and test commands
- A person to review it like any other change

## Proof, not a promise

94 database migrations in this repo, each one reviewed, then merged, individually.

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## Two ready-to-file briefs for this job

[Bump one dependency and fix what breaks Name the dependency and the version, and get an upgrade with whatever it breaks already fixed.](https://codeherder.com/starter-briefs/bump-one-dependency/) [Delete a dead flag and every reference to it Name the flag that always resolves one way now. Get it and its dead branch removed.](https://codeherder.com/starter-briefs/delete-a-dead-flag/)

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