check-deps

A command for checking whether a project's dependencies follow defined architecture rules. It uses a code graph, which records relationships between parts of a codebase, to find layer violations, circular dependencies, and forbidden namespaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check forbidden dependencies, review architectural violations, and get suggested fixes for each dependency chain.
Why use it?
It makes hidden architecture problems visible and shows the dependency chain behind each violation. It also detects when the required code-graph database has not been created yet.

Command for Claude Code

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 commands/sakrut/ai-code-graph/check-deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sakrut/ai-code-graph

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 130 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 $0.00000 $0.00130
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00065
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00026
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00013

Measured 3d ago against content hash 89382b1268af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

check-deps 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.

.claude/commands/cg/check-deps.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Check for forbidden dependencies: $ARGUMENTS

Steps:

  1. Run ai-code-graph check-deps --db ./ai-code-graph/graph.db (use $ARGUMENTS for custom rules if provided)
  2. If the database doesn't exist, inform the user to run ai-code-graph analyze first
  3. Present any violations of dependency rules:
    • Layer violations (e.g., Domain -> Infrastructure)
    • Circular dependencies
    • Forbidden namespace dependencies
  4. For each violation, show the dependency chain and suggest how to fix it
  5. If no violations found, confirm the architecture is clean
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 · 12 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 89382b1268af

Subscribe to this mod's changes

check-deps is a command published in the GitHub repository sakrut/ai-code-graph (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 130 tokens. 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.