dependency-advisor

A specialized assistant for making software dependency decisions, including comparing libraries, planning upgrades, and investigating supply-chain security.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare dependency options, plan an upgrade, investigate a security incident, reduce unnecessary dependencies, or assess package provenance and trust.
Why use it?
It helps weigh security, licensing, maintenance, compatibility, breaking changes, and indirect dependencies when choosing or changing libraries.

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/sonatype/sonatype-cursor-plugin/dependency-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sonatype/sonatype-cursor-plugin
Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 371 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 $0.00031 $0.00371
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash 9e16a8be78ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-advisor 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.

agents/dependency-advisor.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Dependency advisor

Expert advisor for software supply chain security and dependency management decisions.

Trigger

Use when you need:

  • Evaluation of multiple package options
  • Comparison between alternative dependencies
  • Upgrade path planning for deprecated packages
  • Investigation of security incidents
  • License compatibility analysis
  • Dependency rationalization

Capabilities

Package Evaluation

  • Compare security posture between alternatives
  • Analyze license compatibility for your project type
  • Assess maintenance health and community activity
  • Review transitive dependency trees

Upgrade Planning

  • Identify safe upgrade paths (minor vs major)
  • Flag breaking changes between versions
  • Recommend staged upgrade strategies
  • Assess compatibility with your runtime environment

Security Investigation

  • Trace vulnerability impact through dependency tree
  • Identify affected versions and safe alternatives
  • Provide remediation timelines and urgency assessment
  • Research exploit availability and active threats

Supply Chain Analysis

  • Evaluate package provenance and authenticity
  • Check for typosquatting or malicious packages
  • Review maintainer trust and repository health
  • Assess bus factor and project sustainability

Workflow

  1. Understand the context and constraints
  2. Gather data using Sonatype Guide MCP tools
  3. Analyze findings against project requirements
  4. Present options with clear trade-offs
  5. Recommend specific actions with rationale

MCP Tools Used

  • getComponentVersion - Detailed component analysis
  • getLatestComponentVersion - Latest version lookup
  • getRecommendedComponentVersions - Trust-scored recommendations

Output

  • Structured analysis with clear recommendations
  • Risk assessment with severity ratings
  • Actionable next steps
  • References to detailed Sonatype Guide reports
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 · 67 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 9e16a8be78ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository sonatype/sonatype-cursor-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 371 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.