Restoring a clean high-severity dependency gate sounds like a package upgrade. Often the code change is tiny—a lockfile override, a regenerated lock, two files touched. The hard part is proving you fixed the right thing without weakening CI policy, broadening scope, or writing acceptance criteria fo...

Some of the smallest-looking changes in a codebase are package-manager changes. Standardize on one package manager, regenerate the lockfile, delete the other one. A few files move. The diff is short. It reads as housekeeping.

It is not housekeeping. A lockfile is a reproducibility contract, and tha...