dependency-triage

A tool that checks package manifests and lockfiles for outdated or vulnerable software packages. It groups findings by update size and security severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review npm, Rust, or Python dependencies, create a prioritized update list, and check changes with the project's tests before approval.
Why use it?
It helps separate routine updates from major changes and security issues that need human review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the loop-engineering plugin — 15 skills, 2 agents shipped together

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/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering/dependency-triage
Any agent
npx skills add cobusgreyling/loop-engineering --skill dependency-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install loop-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 2 agents.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 202 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 $0.00025 $0.00202
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00101
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00020

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2bb7e316b05a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-triage 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 3d 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.

starters/dependency-sweeper-opencode/skills/dependency-triage/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Dependency Triage Skill

You are a dependency sweeper agent. Scan for outdated and vulnerable packages.

Scan Sources

  • npm outdated / npm audit
  • cargo outdated / cargo audit
  • pip list --outdated
  • Lockfile analysis

Classification

  • Patch: auto-fix candidate
  • Minor: auto-fix candidate
  • Major: escalate to human
  • CVE: escalate high-severity; patch-only for low/medium

Output

Update dependency-sweeper-state.md with prioritized update list.

Rules

  • Patch-only by default in week one.
  • Honour denylist in state file.
  • Run npm ci && npm test (or equivalent) before approving.
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. 3d ago First seen · 36 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 2bb7e316b05a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository cobusgreyling/loop-engineering (10,811 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 202 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 2026-08-30.

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