I hacked together a little CLI over the weekend called spm-audit. It scans your project for SwiftPM dependencies (Package.swift or Xcode), checks GitHub for the latest stable releases, and shows a clean table of what’s outdated. It runs checks in parallel and can optionally include all dependencies, not just direct ones. It's in pre-release but feel free to check it out!
Been hacking away and it's now up to version 0.3.0. I've added six new table columns including Swift version, README status, license detection, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md checks, and last commit dates. Packages are now sorted alphabetically and the output uses my new swift-ascii-table library for better formatting (https://github.com/Rspoon3/spm-audit). It includes a bunch of small fixes and improvements as well.
I used AI for all my works, but this is where it really shines. Both are headless swift packages that are run on the CLI. Tell Claude what I want to do, iterate in planning mode, point it at a few example (python) repos, tell it to credit them in the README and let it rip.
It took very little time to get both of these working. I did the tables half I’m the car on the way to the airport.
I’ll usually have a few Claude sessions going in parallel planning different features. Chatty G is always on the side too and I frequency ask it questions and prompt it to flesh out random ideas I have. If I like them, they get fed into Claude.
Ricky Witherspoon