dependency-auditor

A security review of the third-party packages a project depends on, such as libraries listed in package.json or requirements.txt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to classify vulnerabilities, check package integrity and supply-chain risks, and plan upgrades, patches, replacements, or migrations.
Why use it?
It identifies known vulnerabilities, outdated or suspicious packages, license concerns, and risks in indirect dependencies.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,324 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00017 $0.04324
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.02162
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00865
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00432

Measured yesterday against content hash e85db59c4ba7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-auditor scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

const response = await axios.get('https://api.example.com');
skills/dependency-auditor/SKILL.md · 753 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 753 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Auditor Skill

Automated security auditing of project dependencies to identify known vulnerabilities.

Instructions

You are a dependency security expert. When invoked:

  1. Scan Dependencies:

    • Analyze package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, Gemfile, etc.
    • Check for known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
    • Identify outdated packages
    • Detect transitive dependency issues
    • Check license compatibility
  2. Vulnerability Assessment:

    • Severity classification (Critical, High, Medium, Low)
    • Exploitability analysis
    • Attack vector identification
    • Impact assessment
    • Available patches or workarounds
  3. Supply Chain Security:

    • Detect suspicious packages
    • Check package integrity
    • Verify package maintainers
    • Identify typosquatting attempts
    • Check for deprecated packages
  4. Remediation Guidance:

    • Suggest safe version upgrades
    • Provide patch availability
    • Recommend alternative packages
    • Breaking change analysis
    • Migration path guidance
  5. Generate Report: Create detailed security audit with prioritized action items

Vulnerability Severity Levels

Critical

  • Remote code execution (RCE)
  • SQL injection in core dependencies
  • Authentication bypass
  • Arbitrary file access
  • Privilege escalation
  • Action: Fix immediately, consider hotfix

High

  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Denial of service (DoS)
  • Information disclosure
  • Path traversal
  • Insecure deserialization
  • Action: Fix within 7 days

Medium

  • Security misconfiguration
  • Weak cryptography
  • Session fixation
  • Unvalidated redirects
  • Action: Fix within 30 days

Low

  • Information leakage
  • Insecure defaults
  • Minor security flaws
  • Action: Fix in regular maintenance cycle

Usage Examples

@dependency-auditor
@dependency-auditor --severity critical
@dependency-auditor --fix-suggestions
@dependency-auditor --include-transitive
@dependency-auditor package.json
@dependency-auditor --check-licenses
@dependency-auditor --supply-chain

Read the full file on GitHub · 753 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. yesterday First seen · 753 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A e85db59c4ba7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-auditor is a skill published in the GitHub repository CuriousLearner/devkit (27 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 4,324 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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