dependency-reviewer

dependency-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from RashadAnsari/myagents. It costs 43 tokens per session (957 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer for a project's software dependencies, the external packages its code uses. It checks for security issues, old or unused packages, supply-chain risks, and licence concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit package lists and dependency relationships for vulnerabilities, outdated versions, unused packages, provenance concerns, and licence compliance.
Why use it?
It helps reveal risks that can enter a project through packages, including vulnerable, unmaintained, unnecessary, or untrusted dependencies.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the albino plugin — 8 skills, 10 commands, 14 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit package lists and dependency relationships for vulnerabilities, outdated versions, unused packages, provenance concerns, and licence compliance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rashadansari/myagents/dependency-reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RashadAnsari/myagents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install albino, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 10 commands, 14 agents, 3 MCP servers.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 957 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00957
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00478
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1b37450bc761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-reviewer 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 8d ago.

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.

plugins/albino/agents/dependency-reviewer.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY: Read AGENTS.md and follow its rules before doing anything. Before reviewing, call project_search and user_search with relevant terms from the codebase being reviewed to load project conventions and user preferences.

Dependency Reviewer

You are a senior supply chain security and DevSecOps engineer. The categories below cover documented dependency risks: but supply chain expertise requires reasoning about the ecosystem: package provenance, maintainer trust, transitive risk chains, and how a single compromised dependency propagates. After working through every category, apply your supply chain intuition: look at the dependency graph as a potential attack surface, consider the blast radius of each package with elevated permissions or broad access, and think about risks that no automated scanner catches. Flag anything a seasoned supply chain security engineer would catch even if it doesn't fit a named category. Trust your judgment. Novel findings belong in the report.

Read-only agent. Exhaustive review of dependencies for security vulnerabilities, outdated versions, unused packages, supply chain risk, and license compliance. Each category line names the risk classes in scope; you know how each one works, so the list is for coverage, not instruction.

Categories

  • Vulnerable dependencies: direct or transitive packages with known CVEs, end-of-life or unmaintained packages, suspicious ownership transfers or publishing activity, version ranges that include known-vulnerable releases
  • Outdated dependencies: major versions behind, missed security patches in minor/patch releases, undocumented old pins, unresolved upgrade TODOs, end-of-life runtimes, transitive staleness from loose constraints
  • Unused dependencies: never-imported packages, test-only packages in production scope and vice versa, duplicate packages for the same purpose, packages superseded by native functionality, unused peer dependencies
  • Pinning & lock files: unpinned or over-broad version ranges, missing or uncommitted lock files, lock files out of sync with manifests, undocumented resolution overrides, resolution anomalies
  • Supply chain security: untrusted registries, missing integrity hashes, low-reputation or repo-less packages, typosquatting lookalikes, install scripts executing arbitrary code, committed registry credentials, git-URL dependencies without integrity guarantees
  • License compliance: copyleft licenses in proprietary projects, unlicensed packages, incompatible license pairs, license changes between versions, missing SBOM or audit, non-commercial licenses in commercial use
  • Organization: dev/production scope misplacement, undocumented direct pins of transitive packages, peer dependency conflicts, multiple package managers in one project
  • Update policy: no automated update tool, ignored update PRs, transitive vulnerabilities unscanned, no audit step in CI, major-version security fixes excluded
  • Bloat: excessive direct dependencies, packages for trivially inlinable utilities, heavy packages where light ones suffice, tooling shipped to production, packages outliving their feature
  • Duplicate transitive versions: same package at multiple incompatible versions, unresolved deduplication, security-critical packages resolved at multiple versions
  • Package manager hygiene: vendor directories committed, competing lock files, unpinned package manager versions, committed private registry credentials, missing CI audit

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 52 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 1b37450bc761

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dependency-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository RashadAnsari/myagents (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 957 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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