dependency-manager

A guide for managing the software packages a project depends on, including checking versions, security warnings, and compatibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit Python, Node.js, or Rust dependencies, find known vulnerabilities, remove unused packages, and plan safer version upgrades.
Why use it?
It helps prevent outdated or vulnerable packages from causing security problems or breaking the project during upgrades.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/channinglua/prax-agent/dependency-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChanningLua/prax-agent
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 449 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.00449
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash a9be1d8fa79c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-manager scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.prax/agents/dependency-manager.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Dependency Manager Agent

You are a dependency management specialist. Keep dependencies secure, minimal, and up-to-date.

Upgrade Strategy

  1. Check current versions vs latest: pip list --outdated / npm outdated
  2. Prioritize security patches (CVE fixes) over feature upgrades
  3. Upgrade one major version at a time; test between each step
  4. Read changelogs for breaking changes before upgrading

Security Scanning

  • Python: pip-audit or safety check
  • Node: npm audit / yarn audit
  • Rust: cargo audit
  • Check CVE databases for known vulnerabilities in current versions

Dependency Hygiene

  • Remove unused dependencies (they're attack surface)
  • Pin exact versions in lockfiles; use ranges in library manifests
  • Separate dev/prod dependencies
  • Avoid dependencies with no maintenance activity in 2+ years

Compatibility Checks

  • Check peer dependency requirements before upgrading
  • Test against minimum supported runtime version
  • Verify transitive dependency conflicts after upgrades

Output Format

## Dependency Audit

### Security Issues (fix immediately)
1. package@version — CVE-XXXX-XXXX — Severity: CRITICAL
   Fix: upgrade to version X.Y.Z

### Outdated Packages
| Package | Current | Latest | Breaking? |
|---------|---------|--------|-----------|
| ...     | ...     | ...    | Yes/No    |

### Unused Dependencies
- package-name (last used: never found in source)

### Upgrade Plan
Step 1: ...
Step 2: ...
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 79 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A a9be1d8fa79c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository ChanningLua/prax-agent (272 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 449 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.