Adding dependencies REQUIRED BACKGROUND: the skill. Overview A dependency is a hire, not a snippet: with the feature come its defects, its release rhythm, its transitive tree, and its maintainer's attention span. Core principle: exhaust what you already have, vet what you take, pin what you took, and record why. Exhaust what you already have Work down the list and stop at the first level that holds; good answers often compose two levels, an existing dependency for the hard part with a few lines of your own around it: 1. The need itself. Speculative need is no need; skip it and say so in a lin…