merging-dependabot-prs

merging-dependabot-prs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from apache/struts. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,394 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for handling Dependabot pull requests, which automatically propose dependency version updates, in the Apache Struts repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Classifying, testing, documenting, and merging Dependabot dependency updates.
Why use it?
It helps decide which updates need issue tracking and whether the dependency's actual Maven role makes the change user-facing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Apache Struts is an open-source Java web framework that helps developers build applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern, separating data and business logic from page presentation and request handling. Java developers use it to create dynamic web applications with interactive forms and database-backed behavior. The catalogue's skills, instructions, and setting support work with Struts projects.

apache/struts · 1,366 stars · on GitHub · struts.apache.org

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 skills/apache/struts/merging-dependabot-prs
Any agent
npx skills add apache/struts --skill merging-dependabot-prs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/apache/struts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 2,394 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 5.1 $0.00052 $0.02394
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01197
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured yesterday against content hash 301f56008e78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merging-dependabot-prs 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 yesterday.

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/skills/merging-dependabot-prs/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Merging Dependabot PRs

Overview

Dependabot opens bumps against main and support/struts-6-x-x. Most land as-is. A bump that ships to users needs a WW Jira ticket first, and the ticket ID must reach the PR title, the PR body and the squash commit subject before it merges.

Core principle: the decision is driven by the dependency's real Maven scope, not by what Dependabot calls it. Dependabot's build(deps-dev): prefix and its dependency-type: trailer are guesses about its own ecosystem, not this project's POM. Read the POM.

The decision

Read the semver class from the Dependabot commit trailer — never parse version strings:

gh pr view <N> --json commits --jq '.commits[].messageBody' \
  | grep -E 'dependency-name:|update-type:'
# update-type: version-update:semver-{patch|minor|major}

Then find the real scope, and cross the two:

What is being bumped patch minor major
GitHub Action (.github/workflows/*) merge bare merge bare merge bare
Maven plugin or build tooling (<build><plugins>, *-maven-plugin, maven-wrapper) merge bare merge bare merge bare
Maven dep, <scope>test</scope> merge bare merge bare merge bare
Maven dep in apps/ (showcase, rest-showcase) merge bare merge bare merge bare
Maven dep, compile / runtime / provided — including <optional>true</optional> merge bare TICKET TICKET

"Merge bare" always still requires a green build (see below).

Finding the real scope

grep -rn '<artifactId>NAME</artifactId>' --include=pom.xml . | grep -v /target/

Read the <scope> on the surrounding <dependency> block in the module that declares it (core/pom.xml, plugins/*/pom.xml), not the <dependencyManagement> copy in parent/pom.xml — the managed block usually carries no scope.

  • No <scope> element means compile — it ships.
  • <optional>true</optional> still ships: it is published in the module's POM and users who opt in inherit the version. Optional is not exempt.
  • For a version property (jackson.version, byte-buddy.version), resolve the property to the artifacts it feeds and take the widest scope among them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. yesterday First seen · 205 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 301f56008e78

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merging-dependabot-prs is a skill published in the GitHub repository apache/struts (1,366 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,394 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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