dependency-audit

dependency-audit is a skill for Claude Code from backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit. It costs 43 tokens per session (4,783 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A software supply-chain security audit that checks the third-party packages a project depends on. It coordinates command-line scanners and combines vulnerability, licence, and risk findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with files such as package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, or Cargo.toml to scan dependencies, assess security risks, and review licence compliance.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about outdated or unsafe dependencies with results from vulnerability databases and project manifests.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it with files such as package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, or Cargo.toml to scan dependencies, assess security risks, and review licence compliance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit/dependency-audit
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 backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit --skill dependency-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,783 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 9
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 4
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00043 $0.04783
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01913
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00957
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00478

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 17941b1bdc56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-audit 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 1mo 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/dependency-audit/SKILL.md · 486 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 486 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/dependency-audit Workflow

Output Rules

  • Always print full absolute paths for all artifact references (plan files, review files, audit logs). This makes paths clickable in terminals like Warp. Use the resolved $PLANS_DIR value, never relative paths.

Role

This skill is a pipeline coordinator. It orchestrates a sequential supply chain security workflow by delegating scanner invocation and synthesis to appropriate tools. It does NOT perform LLM-based CVE lookup — it coordinates real CLI scanners that use live vulnerability databases, then synthesizes their output. The LLM's training data has a knowledge cutoff and cannot reliably detect post-cutoff CVEs.

Inputs

  • Package manifest path or scope: $ARGUMENTS (optional — auto-detected if omitted)
  • Supported: package.json, requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, Pipfile, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pom.xml, Gemfile

Step 0 — Pre-flight: detect manifest and scanner availability

Resolve devkit paths (MUST be first action in Step 0):

Tool: Bash

# --- Devkit Path Resolution ---
DEVKIT_SCRIPTS="${CLAUDE_DEVKIT:-$HOME/.claude-devkit}/scripts"

# Source path resolution helper
if [ -f "$DEVKIT_SCRIPTS/resolve-project-dir.sh" ]; then
  . "$DEVKIT_SCRIPTS/resolve-project-dir.sh"
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED=$(resolve_devkit_project_dir) || {
    echo "Failed to resolve project directory" >&2; exit 1
  }
elif [ -n "${DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR:-}" ]; then
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED="$DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR"
else
  echo "WARNING: devkit is not installed. Using deprecated .devkit/ fallback." >&2
  DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED=".devkit"
fi

PLANS_DIR="$DEVKIT_PROJECT_DIR_RESOLVED/plans"
mkdir -p "$PLANS_DIR"
echo "Plans directory: $PLANS_DIR"

Tool: Bash (direct — coordinator does this), Glob

Detect manifest type by searching for known manifest files:

Tool: Glob

Search patterns (in order):

  • **/package.json → ecosystem: Node.js, scanner: npm audit
  • **/requirements.txt or **/pyproject.toml or **/Pipfile → ecosystem: Python, scanners: pip-audit or safety
  • **/go.mod → ecosystem: Go, scanner: govulncheck
  • **/Cargo.toml → ecosystem: Rust, scanner: cargo audit
  • **/pom.xml → ecosystem: Java, scanner: mvn dependency:analyze
  • **/Gemfile → ecosystem: Ruby, scanner: bundle audit

Read the full file on GitHub · 486 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. 1mo ago First seen · 486 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 17941b1bdc56

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dependency-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository backspace-shmackspace/claude-devkit (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 4,783 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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