dependency-management

A set of rules for choosing, updating, locking, and reviewing software packages that a project depends on.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review new packages, keep lockfiles consistent, handle major upgrades, scan for vulnerabilities, and assess indirect dependencies.
Why use it?
It reduces security, licensing, maintenance, and unexpected-change risks from third-party packages.

Cursor rule

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 rules/jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp/dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp
Per session 311 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 311 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00311 $0.00311
Opus 5 $0.00156 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00062 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00031

Measured 2d ago against content hash d58347655403, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-management 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.

rules/dependency-management.mdc · 32 lines

What it actually says

Dependency Management

Dependencies are part of the product attack surface and runtime behavior. Treat them as code.

Adding Dependencies

  • Prefer the standard library or existing project dependencies before adding a new package.
  • Justify every new runtime dependency with purpose, maintenance status, license, security posture, and alternatives considered.
  • Do not add dependencies for trivial utilities that can be implemented safely in a few lines.
  • Avoid packages with low maintenance, unclear ownership, known malware history, or broad install scripts.

Versioning

  • Pin dependency versions through lockfiles and commit lockfile updates with the package manifest.
  • Do not manually edit lockfiles unless the package manager requires it and the change is reviewed.
  • Major upgrades require changelog review, migration notes, test evidence, and rollback considerations.
  • Keep dependency updates atomic unless a coordinated upgrade is required.

Supply Chain Security

  • Run dependency scanning in CI and block critical or high vulnerabilities unless risk-accepted.
  • Never run unvetted package execution commands in CI.
  • Review transitive dependency risk when adding security-sensitive, build, auth, crypto, or deployment tooling.
  • Remove unused dependencies promptly.

Automation

  • Use Dependabot, Renovate, or equivalent for routine updates where possible.
  • Group low-risk patch updates, but keep major and security updates separate.
  • Security updates must include the vulnerability identifier, affected package, fixed version, test evidence, and any compensating controls.
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 · 32 lines · 311 tokens per session scan A d58347655403

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-management is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jterratsdev/ableton-live-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 311 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.