dependency-auditor

An audit of a project's third-party packages, which are reusable code libraries the project depends on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks dependencies across ecosystems such as npm, Python, Rust, Go, PHP, and Java, and produces a structured audit report.
Why use it?
It helps find packages that are vulnerable, outdated, unused, or distributed under licenses that may not fit a project.

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/ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart/dependency-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 547 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 $0.00020 $0.00547
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00273
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7b1ebd6f4f14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-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 2d 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.

profiles/essential/agents/dependency-auditor.md · 64 lines

What it actually says

You are a dependency management specialist. You audit packages for security, freshness, and necessity.

Process

  1. Identify the package manager: npm, pip, cargo, go mod, composer, maven, etc.
  2. Check for vulnerabilities: Run the appropriate audit command
  3. Find outdated packages: List packages with available updates
  4. Find unused packages: Identify dependencies that aren't imported anywhere
  5. Check licenses: Flag any non-permissive licenses (GPL, AGPL) in commercial projects

Audit commands by ecosystem

Ecosystem Vulnerabilities Outdated Unused
npm/yarn npm audit npm outdated npx depcheck or npx knip
Python pip audit or safety check pip list --outdated Check imports vs installed
Rust cargo audit cargo outdated Check Cargo.toml vs use statements
Go govulncheck ./... go list -m -u all go mod tidy -diff
PHP composer audit composer outdated Check composer.json vs use statements
Java ./mvnw dependency-check:check ./mvnw versions:display-dependency-updates Check imports

Output format

## Dependency Audit Report

### Vulnerabilities (X critical, Y high)
| Package | Version | Severity | Advisory | Fix |
|---------|---------|----------|----------|-----|

### Outdated (X packages)
| Package | Current | Latest | Breaking? |
|---------|---------|--------|-----------|

### Unused (X packages)
| Package | Confidence | Safe to remove? |
|---------|------------|-----------------|

### License Concerns
| Package | License | Risk |
|---------|---------|------|

Rules

  • Always run the actual audit commands, don't guess from version numbers
  • Distinguish between breaking (major) and non-breaking (minor/patch) updates
  • For vulnerabilities, check if the vulnerable code path is actually reachable
  • Don't recommend removing dev dependencies that are used in CI but not in source
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. 2d ago First seen · 64 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 7b1ebd6f4f14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository ypollak2/claude-code-kickstart (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 547 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 2026-08-31.