maven-dependency-management

maven-dependency-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,966 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to managing Maven dependencies, the external Java libraries a project uses. It covers version declarations, scopes, transitive dependencies, conflicts, BOMs, and dependency-tree cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to declare dependencies, control whether they are needed at compile or test time, resolve version conflicts, apply BOMs, and inspect or optimize a dependency tree.
Why use it?
It helps prevent incompatible library versions and unwanted transitive dependencies from breaking a Java build. It also makes dependency choices more consistent across modules.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to declare dependencies, control whether they are needed at compile or test time, resolve version conflicts, apply BOMs, and inspect or optimize a dependency tree.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/maven-dependency-management
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,757 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill maven-dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,966 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 Prompt Injection · line 64
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Prompt Injection · line 119
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
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 $0.00028 $0.02966
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01483
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00297

Measured 6d ago against content hash d5a95c61cb18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maven-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/fix-build-google-auto/environment/skills/maven-dependency-management/SKILL.md · 507 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 507 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maven Dependency Management

Master Maven dependency management including dependency declaration, scope management, version resolution, BOMs, and dependency tree optimization.

Overview

Maven's dependency management is a cornerstone of Java project build systems. It handles transitive dependencies, version conflicts, and provides mechanisms for controlling dependency resolution across multi-module projects.

Dependency Declaration

Basic Dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Dependency with Scope

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
    <version>5.10.1</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Optional Dependencies

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.findbugs</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsr305</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.2</version>
    <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

Dependency Scopes

Available Scopes

Scope Compile CP Test CP Runtime CP Transitive
compile Yes Yes Yes Yes
provided Yes Yes No No
runtime No Yes Yes Yes
test No Yes No No
system Yes Yes No No
import N/A N/A N/A N/A

Scope Examples

<!-- Compile scope (default) - available everywhere -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
    <version>3.14.0</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Provided - available at compile, not packaged -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

<!-- Runtime - only needed at runtime -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
    <version>42.7.1</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

<!-- Test - only for testing -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
    <artifactId>mockito-core</artifactId>
    <version>5.8.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Read the full file on GitHub · 507 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. 6d ago First seen · 507 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A d5a95c61cb18

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maven-dependency-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,757 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,966 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.