dependabot

dependabot is a skill for Claude Code from boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill. It costs 136 tokens per session (3,321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for configuring GitHub Dependabot, GitHub’s built-in tool for finding vulnerable dependencies and opening updates. It covers dependency manifests, version updates, security fixes, grouped updates, and repositories with multiple projects, known as monorepos.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or improve .github/dependabot.yml, detect package ecosystems, group updates, and manage dependency updates for languages, containers, Docker Compose, and GitHub Actions.
Why use it?
It helps keep third-party libraries current and respond to known security vulnerabilities without maintaining several separate configuration files. It also helps organize update pull requests in larger repositories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to create or improve .github/dependabot.yml, detect package ecosystems, group updates, and manage dependency updates for languages, containers, Docker Compose, and GitHub Actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshi-xixixi/traeskill/dependabot
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 boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill dependabot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,321 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 $0.00136 $0.03321
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01661
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00664
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00332

Measured 4d ago against content hash 85179928b083, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot 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 4d 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.

.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/dependabot/SKILL.md · 454 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot Configuration & Management

Overview

Dependabot is GitHub's built-in dependency management tool with three core capabilities:

  1. Dependabot Alerts — Notify when dependencies have known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
  2. Dependabot Security Updates — Auto-create PRs to fix vulnerable dependencies
  3. Dependabot Version Updates — Auto-create PRs to keep dependencies current

All configuration lives in a single file: .github/dependabot.yml on the default branch. GitHub does not support multiple dependabot.yml files per repository.

Configuration Workflow

Follow this process when creating or optimizing a dependabot.yml:

Step 1: Detect All Ecosystems

Scan the repository for dependency manifests. Look for:

Ecosystem YAML Value Manifest Files
npm/pnpm/yarn npm package.json, package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock
pip/pipenv/poetry/uv pip requirements.txt, Pipfile, pyproject.toml, setup.py
Docker docker Dockerfile
Docker Compose docker-compose docker-compose.yml
GitHub Actions github-actions .github/workflows/*.yml
Go modules gomod go.mod
Bundler (Ruby) bundler Gemfile
Cargo (Rust) cargo Cargo.toml
Composer (PHP) composer composer.json
NuGet (.NET) nuget *.csproj, packages.config
.NET SDK dotnet-sdk global.json
Maven (Java) maven pom.xml
Gradle (Java) gradle build.gradle
Terraform terraform *.tf
OpenTofu opentofu *.tf
Helm helm Chart.yaml
Hex (Elixir) mix mix.exs
Swift swift Package.swift
Pub (Dart) pub pubspec.yaml
Bun bun bun.lockb
Dev Containers devcontainers devcontainer.json
Git Submodules gitsubmodule .gitmodules
Pre-commit pre-commit .pre-commit-config.yaml

Note: pnpm and yarn both use the npm ecosystem value.

Read the full file on GitHub · 454 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 454 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 85179928b083

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dependabot is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (261 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,321 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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