truestack-dependency-management

truestack-dependency-management is a skill for Claude Code from adtn0810/truestack. It costs 227 tokens per session (2,617 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for managing the packages and other third-party code an application depends on. It covers adding, updating, pinning, auditing, and securing those dependencies across their lifecycle.

In plain words
What is it for?
Adding or upgrading packages, editing lockfiles, setting update delays or automated update tools, running dependency audits, and maintaining software-bill-of-materials and security policies.
Why use it?
It helps control supply-chain risk, keep dependency changes documented, and make decisions about vulnerabilities and updates using current evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the truestack plugin — 23 skills, 8 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Adding or upgrading packages, editing lockfiles, setting update delays or automated update tools, running dependency audits, and maintaining software-bill-of-materials and security policies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adtn0810/truestack/truestack-dependency-management
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.

Any agent
npx skills add adtn0810/truestack --skill truestack-dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adtn0810/truestack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install truestack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 8 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,617 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00227 $0.02617
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.01308
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00262

Measured 11d ago against content hash 60dcc6065c13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

truestack-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 11d 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.

skills/truestack-dependency-management/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

truestack-dependency-management

Own the policy and lifecycle of everything the app pulls from a registry — what gets added, how fast it updates, how it's pinned and verified, when a CVE blocks a build, and what ships in the SBOM. On a self-hosted single server there is no blast-radius isolation: a poisoned install script runs with the box's full ambient credentials (deploy keys, cloud metadata, .env). Accuracy and stability over chasing latest; honesty over a green scan you didn't verify.

Read project memory first — CLAUDE.md is auto-loaded (Principles + Boundaries); consult .ai/memory/ for the stack, package manager, lockfiles, registries, and any pin/policy decisions already recorded. If none exists, run truestack-project-memory. Keep the code↔memory tally balanced: adding a dependency, changing a pin, or setting a cooldown/scanner policy is a decision — record it in the same change.

Auto-research, don't recall. Never assert a CVE, GHSA, severity, fix-version, license, or SLSA detail from memory — version- and advisory-specific facts go stale. Ground every claim in authoritative sources at decision time (OSV/GHSA, the registry, NIST SSDF SP 800-218 / C-SCRM SP 800-161, SPDX, slsa.dev). Adopting a new dependency or a cooldown override is a real ingestion decision — route a consequential one through truestack-architecture-planning's approval gate. (The enforced PreToolUse gate in hooks/ does not stop a plain npm/pip install; it only catches a postinstall that pipes a remote payload into a shell — so the add-time cooldown + triage here is the real control, not the hook.)

Where this skill sits (seams to respect): this skill owns the ongoing dep policy and lifecycle. truestack-ci-and-delivery SHA-pins its own GitHub Actions and runs the scanner step in CI — but the policy that step enforces (pin mode, cooldown, the fail-on bar, the SBOM artifact) is this skill's. truestack-quality-control runs the one-shot SAFETY pass on a given change (including "this bump introduces a known CVE"); truestack-application-security owns the security DESIGN/discipline; this skill owns the standing dependency posture between changes. truestack-mcp-integration owns untrusted tool-output; the PreToolUse hook governs agent actions — both are different layers. truestack-observability redacts PII in telemetry; truestack-data-privacy owns the privacy policy — neither is license/SBOM. truestack-backend-development justifies why a dep is needed at code time; this skill governs whether and how it enters and stays.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 141 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A 60dcc6065c13

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truestack-dependency-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository adtn0810/truestack (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 2,617 once invoked, about $0.0011 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.