environmental-scan

environmental-scan is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dmoskov/sharedskills. It costs 32 tokens per session (535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research process for checking a project’s external environment for security advisories, software changes, releases and relevant research.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities, checking API and SDK changes, finding major releases or end-of-life notices, and reviewing related research.
Why use it?
It helps reveal risks in dependencies and outside services before they cause security, compatibility or maintenance problems.

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/dmoskov/sharedskills/environmental-scan
Any agent
npx skills add dmoskov/sharedskills --skill environmental-scan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dmoskov/sharedskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for environmental-scan

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dmoskov/sharedskills/environmental-scan.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dmoskov/sharedskills/environmental-scan)
Your own site
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 535 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 $0.00032 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9000790fe1ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

environmental-scan 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.

skills/environmental-scan/SKILL.md · 58 lines

What it actually says

Environmental Scanning Skill

Look outward: find security advisories, breaking upstream changes, and relevant new releases/research that affect the current project, and produce a severity-ranked intelligence report. Runs entirely from the session using web search/fetch — no database, feeds infrastructure, or scheduled jobs required.

When to Use

  • Periodically (weekly is a good cadence) on any actively developed project
  • Before upgrading dependencies or planning a maintenance window
  • After security news breaks and you want to know "are we affected?"
  • When starting work on a project that's been dormant for a while

Scan Categories

Category What to check Primary sources
Security CVEs/advisories for your actual dependencies OSV.dev, GitHub Advisories, NVD, RustSec, PyPA
API changes Breaking changes in SDKs/APIs the project calls Vendor changelogs, release notes
Dependencies Major-version releases, deprecations, EOL notices PyPI, npm, crates.io registries
Research New techniques relevant to what the project does arXiv, vendor engineering blogs

Workflow

Follow prompts/scan.md. Quick summary:

  1. Inventory — read the project's manifests (requirements.txt, package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, ...) to build the real dependency list with pinned versions
  2. Sweep — check each category against the sources above, scoped to that inventory
  3. Filter — keep only findings that actually affect the versions in use
  4. Report — severity-ranked markdown report with concrete remediation steps

Output

A markdown report (printed, or written to a file if the user asks) with sections: Critical / High / Notable / Informational. Every finding cites its source URL and names the affected file (e.g. requirements.txt: aiohttp 3.9.1 → CVE-2024-XXXX, fixed in 3.9.4).

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · 58 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 9000790fe1ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

environmental-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository dmoskov/sharedskills (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 535 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 2026-08-31.

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