deps

A dependency-management helper for software packages and security vulnerabilities. Dependencies are external libraries that a project relies on, and CVEs are published records of security flaws.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking outdated packages, updating a named package, running security audits, explaining package relationships, and deduplicating npm, Python, Rust, or Ruby dependencies.
Why use it?
It shows what needs updating, why a package is present, and whether known vulnerabilities or duplicate packages need attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap/deps
Any agent
npx skills add brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap --skill deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 442 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 $0.00045 $0.00442
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00221
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee1c31abe499, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deps 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/deps/SKILL.md · 60 lines

What it actually says

Deps Skill

Manage project dependencies following the CVE decision tree.

Usage

/deps check              # Show outdated packages
/deps update lodash      # Update specific package
/deps audit              # Run security audit
/deps why express        # Explain why a package is installed
/deps dedupe             # Deduplicate dependency tree

Instructions

First: Read claude/cve-policy.md for the CVE decision tree.

Determine action from $ARGUMENTS:

Argument Action
check Show outdated packages
update <package> Update specific package
audit npm audit / pip audit / cargo audit / bundle audit
why <package> npm why <package> / pip show <package>
dedupe npm dedupe / pnpm dedupe
(empty) Run check + audit

By Package Manager:

npm / pnpm / yarn:

pnpm outdated 2>&1 | head -40
pnpm audit --audit-level moderate 2>&1 | head -40

pip / uv / poetry:

pip list --outdated 2>&1 | head -30
pip-audit 2>&1 | head -40

cargo:

cargo outdated 2>&1 | head -30
cargo audit 2>&1 | head -40

CVE Response Rules (from claude/cve-policy.md):

  • Critical/High severity → upgrade immediately, test, PR same day
  • Medium severity → schedule within current sprint
  • Low severity → batch with next dependency update cycle
  • NEVER blindly upgrade majors — check breaking changes first
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. 2d ago First seen · 60 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ee1c31abe499

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 442 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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