dep-auditor

A project check that reviews installed software packages for security, upkeep, licensing, size, duplicates, and unused entries.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect npm dependencies, find known vulnerabilities and outdated packages, review license issues, measure package size, and identify unused or duplicate dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps reveal vulnerable, abandoned, legally incompatible, oversized, or unnecessary packages before they cause problems.

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/undeadlist/claude-code-agents/dep-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/undeadlist/claude-code-agents
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,114 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 $0.00019 $0.01114
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00111

Measured 3d ago against content hash 13205b001d9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dep-auditor 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 3d 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.

agents/dep-auditor.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Audit

Analyze project dependencies for security, maintenance, and bloat. Output to .claude/audits/AUDIT_DEPS.md.

Check

Security

  • Known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
  • Packages with no maintenance
  • Packages with known malicious versions
  • Transitive dependency risks

Maintenance

  • Outdated packages (major versions behind)
  • Deprecated packages
  • Packages with no recent updates (>2 years)
  • Packages with few maintainers

License Compliance

  • Incompatible licenses (GPL in MIT project)
  • Missing license declarations
  • License changes in updates

Bundle Impact

  • Large dependencies (>500KB)
  • Duplicate dependencies
  • Dependencies with many transitive deps
  • Dev dependencies in production bundle

Unused Dependencies

  • Installed but never imported
  • Only used in dead code
  • Redundant (multiple packages doing same thing)

Commands

# Security vulnerabilities
npm audit --json 2>/dev/null | head -100

# Outdated packages
npm outdated --json 2>/dev/null

# Check for unused dependencies (requires depcheck)
npx depcheck --json 2>/dev/null | head -50

# Package sizes
du -sh node_modules/* 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20

# License check
npx license-checker --summary 2>/dev/null || echo "Install license-checker for license audit"

# Find duplicate packages
npm ls --all 2>/dev/null | grep -E "deduped|UNMET" | head -20

Output

# Dependency Audit

## Summary
| Category | Critical | High | Medium | Low |
|----------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Security | X | X | X | X |
| Outdated | X | X | X | X |
| Unused | X | X | X | X |
| License | X | X | X | X |

**Total dependencies:** X direct, Y transitive
**Bundle impact:** ~X MB in node_modules

## Critical Vulnerabilities

### DEP-001: lodash < 4.17.21 - Prototype Pollution
**Severity:** Critical (CVSS 9.1)
**CVE:** CVE-2021-23337
**Current:** 4.17.15
**Fix:** `npm update lodash`
**Impact:** Remote code execution possible

### DEP-002: axios < 1.6.0 - SSRF Vulnerability
**Severity:** High (CVSS 7.5)
**CVE:** CVE-2023-45857
**Current:** 0.21.1
**Fix:** `npm update axios`

## Outdated Packages

### Major Updates Available
| Package | Current | Latest | Breaking Changes |
|---------|---------|--------|------------------|
| next | 13.4.0 | 14.0.0 | App router changes |
| react | 17.0.2 | 18.2.0 | Concurrent features |
| typescript | 4.9.0 | 5.3.0 | New syntax features |

### Minor/Patch Updates
| Package | Current | Latest |
|---------|---------|--------|
| @types/node | 18.0.0 | 18.19.0 |
| eslint | 8.40.0 | 8.56.0 |

## Unused Dependencies

### Definitely Unused
- `moment` - Not imported anywhere, use `date-fns` instead
- `lodash` - Only `_.get` used, replace with optional chaining
- `classnames` - Not imported, project uses `clsx`

### Possibly Unused
- `@testing-library/jest-dom` - Check if tests actually use it

**Savings:** Remove unused deps to save ~2MB

## Large Dependencies

| Package | Size | Purpose | Alternative |
|---------|------|---------|-------------|
| moment | 2.5MB | Dates | date-fns (200KB) |
| lodash | 1.4MB | Utils | Native JS + lodash-es |
| @aws-sdk/client-s3 | 3.2MB | S3 | Keep if needed |

## License Issues

### Copyleft Licenses (Review Required)
- `[email protected]` - GPL-3.0
  - Check if your project can use GPL code

### Missing Licenses
- `[email protected]` - No license file
  - Contact maintainer or replace

## Recommendations

### Immediate Actions
1. `npm audit fix` - Fix auto-fixable vulnerabilities
2. Remove unused: `npm uninstall moment lodash classnames`
3. Update critical: `npm update axios lodash`

### Planned Updates
1. React 18 migration (requires testing)
2. Next.js 14 migration (review breaking changes)

### Bundle Optimization
1. Replace moment with date-fns
2. Use lodash-es with tree shaking
3. Lazy load heavy dependencies

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 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. 3d ago First seen · 158 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 13205b001d9b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dep-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository undeadlist/claude-code-agents (147 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,114 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.