A guide to GitHub Dependabot, GitHub's built-in tool for finding vulnerable dependencies and proposing dependency updates. It explains how to configure the single .github/dependabot.yml file for a repository.

Use it to create or improve Dependabot configuration, detect package ecosystems, manage security and version-update pull requests, group updates, and configure repositories containing multiple projects.

It helps keep third-party packages current and address known security vulnerabilities without manually designing update rules. It also explains dependency ecosystems, grouped updates, and monorepo setups.

How docdyhr/macwhisper-mcp-server configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to docdyhr/macwhisper-mcp-server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docdyhr/macwhisper-mcp-server/main/.claude/skills/dependabot/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docdyhr/macwhisper-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,358 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.

Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00136	$0.03358
Opus 5.5	$0.00054	$0.01343
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00027	$0.00672
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00336

Measured 5d ago against content hash 2b5f3af7d8a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to dependabot — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/dependabot/SKILL.md · 457 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 457 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot Configuration & Management

Overview

Dependabot is GitHub's built-in dependency management tool with three core capabilities:

Dependabot Alerts — Notify when dependencies have known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
Dependabot Security Updates — Auto-create PRs to fix vulnerable dependencies
Dependabot Version Updates — Auto-create PRs to keep dependencies current

All configuration lives in a single file: .github/dependabot.yml on the default branch. GitHub does not support multiple dependabot.yml files per repository.

Configuration Workflow

Follow this process when creating or optimizing a dependabot.yml:

Step 1: Detect All Ecosystems

Scan the repository for dependency manifests. Look for:

Ecosystem	YAML Value	Manifest Files
npm/pnpm/yarn	`npm`	`package.json`, `package-lock.json`, `pnpm-lock.yaml`, `yarn.lock`
pip/pipenv/poetry	`pip`	`requirements.txt`, `Pipfile`, `pyproject.toml`, `setup.py`
uv	`uv`	`pyproject.toml`, `uv.lock`
Docker	`docker`	`Dockerfile`
Docker Compose	`docker-compose`	`docker-compose.yml`
GitHub Actions	`github-actions`	`.github/workflows/*.yml`
Go modules	`gomod`	`go.mod`
Bundler (Ruby)	`bundler`	`Gemfile`
Cargo (Rust)	`cargo`	`Cargo.toml`
Composer (PHP)	`composer`	`composer.json`
NuGet (.NET)	`nuget`	`*.csproj`, `packages.config`
.NET SDK	`dotnet-sdk`	`global.json`
Maven (Java)	`maven`	`pom.xml`
Gradle (Java)	`gradle`	`build.gradle`
Terraform	`terraform`	`*.tf`
OpenTofu	`opentofu`	`*.tf`
Helm	`helm`	`Chart.yaml`
Hex (Elixir)	`mix`	`mix.exs`
Swift	`swift`	`Package.swift`
Pub (Dart)	`pub`	`pubspec.yaml`
Bun	`bun`	`bun.lockb`
Dev Containers	`devcontainers`	`devcontainer.json`
Git Submodules	`gitsubmodule`	`.gitmodules`
Pre-commit	`pre-commit`	`.pre-commit-config.yaml`

Notes:

pnpm and yarn both use the npm ecosystem value.
Prefer uv ecosystem value when uv.lock is present; otherwise use pip.

Read the full file on GitHub · 457 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

5d ago First seen · 457 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A 2b5f3af7d8a5

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dependabot is a skill published in the GitHub repository docdyhr/macwhisper-mcp-server (3 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 3,358 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to dependabot, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Commits Git and workflow Security

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