dependency-management

dependency-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 18 tokens per session (473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing the external libraries and tools that a project depends on, including their versions and security checks. A monorepo is one repository containing several related projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pin versions, scan for known vulnerabilities, manage shared dependencies in monorepos, deduplicate packages, and plan upgrades.
Why use it?
It reduces unexpected breakage, security exposure, duplicate packages, and risky upgrades across one or multiple projects.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to pin versions, scan for known vulnerabilities, manage shared dependencies in monorepos, deduplicate packages, and plan upgrades.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/dependency-management
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 473 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: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 48
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00018 $0.00473
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash f02780d85cbd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 9d 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.

categories/development/dependency-management/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Dependency Management

Safely manage project dependencies at scale.

Version Strategy

Pinning Approaches

Strategy Format Risk Best For
Exact 1.2.3 Low Docker, CI, production
Caret ^1.2.3 Medium Libraries, apps with good tests
Tilde ~1.2.3 Low-Medium Conservative updates
Range >=1.2.3 <2.0.0 High Rare, legacy
Floating * Very High Never in production

Rule: Pin exact versions for production, caret for libraries.

Vulnerability Scanning

Tools

  • npm audit / yarn audit — quick JS check
  • Dependabot — GitHub-native, auto PRs
  • Snyk — deeper scanning, prioritization
  • Trivy — container scanning
  • OWASP Dependency-Check — Java/.NET

Workflow

  1. Scan on every PR (fail on critical/high)
  2. Weekly full scan of all repos
  3. Patch critical (<7 days), high (<30 days)
  4. Track CVEs by severity in dashboard
  5. SBOM generation per release

Monorepo Patterns

  • Use workspaces (npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces)
  • Shared dependency versions (single source of truth)
  • Independent vs locked version strategy
  • Deduplicate (npx dedupe after major changes)
  • Audit tree to find conflicting transitive deps

Upgrade Workflow

  1. Check changelog for breaking changes
  2. Run tests (you have tests, right?)
  3. Upgrade one major version at a time
  4. Run full test suite + build
  5. Deploy to staging, verify
  6. Monitor for regressions (logs, metrics, errors)
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 · 58 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A f02780d85cbd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 473 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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