dependency-auditor

dependency-auditor is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dependency-auditing assistant for projects that use third-party packages. It checks package manifests and lockfiles for known risks, license conflicts, and upgrade options across several programming ecosystems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan dependencies, review license compliance, investigate package risks, and create an ordered upgrade plan with rollback notes.
Why use it?
It helps reveal vulnerable or legally incompatible packages before release. It also organizes safer upgrade work, while current vulnerability coverage may require tools such as npm audit or pip-audit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to scan dependencies, review license compliance, investigate package risks, and create an ordered upgrade plan with rollback notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/dependency-auditor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill dependency-auditor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,026 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 $0.00084 $0.01026
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00103

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1f36f3237baf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-auditor 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/dep_scanner.py, scripts/license_checker.py, scripts/upgrade_planner.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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:

skills/claude-skills/dependency-auditor/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Auditor

Skill Type: POWERFUL · Category: Engineering · Domain: Dependency Management & Security

Offline, deterministic dependency auditing across 8+ package ecosystems. The three scripts are pattern-matchers over manifests/lockfiles — they do not call live advisory APIs; pair their findings with npm audit / pip-audit / cargo audit for current CVE coverage.

Quick Start

# 1. Scan for vulnerabilities (built-in offline CVE pattern set; exit non-zero on high severity)
python3 scripts/dep_scanner.py /path/to/project --format json --fail-on-high -o scan.json

# 2. Check license compliance and conflicts
python3 scripts/license_checker.py /path/to/project --policy strict --format json -o licenses.json

# 3. Plan upgrades from the scanner's inventory
python3 scripts/upgrade_planner.py scan.json --risk-threshold medium --timeline 90 --format json -o plan.json

Consume the outputs: scan.json findings drive which packages to pin/patch now; licenses.json conflicts go to the user as a legal-risk list; plan.json orders upgrades by risk with rollback notes. --quick-scan skips transitive deps; --security-only limits the plan to security fixes.

Verification loop: after applying upgrades, re-run step 1 and assert 0 high-severity findings before closing the audit.

Supported Ecosystems

Language Manifests parsed
JavaScript/Node package.json, package-lock.json, yarn.lock
Python requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, Pipfile.lock, poetry.lock
Go go.mod, go.sum
Rust Cargo.toml, Cargo.lock
Ruby Gemfile, Gemfile.lock
Java pom.xml, gradle.lockfile
PHP composer.json, composer.lock
C#/.NET packages.config, project.assets.json

License Classification

  • Permissive: MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD (2/3-clause), ISC
  • Copyleft (strong): GPL v2/v3, AGPL v3 — flags contamination risk in permissive projects
  • Copyleft (weak): LGPL v2.1/v3, MPL 2.0
  • Proprietary / Dual / Unknown — unknown licenses are surfaced for manual review

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 9d ago First seen · 86 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 1f36f3237baf

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dependency-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,026 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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