deps

A dependency audit and upgrade workflow for software projects. Dependencies are external packages a project relies on, and the workflow checks whether they are outdated or have known security problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing packages, finding vulnerabilities, upgrading selected or all dependencies, and verifying the result with tests.
Why use it?
It reduces the manual work and risk involved in deciding which packages to update, while checking whether updates break tests.

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/drn/dots/deps
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,116 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 $0.00028 $0.01116
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00558
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00112

Measured 2d ago against content hash e179094601c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deps 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 2d 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.

agents/skills/deps/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Audit & Upgrade

Audit outdated dependencies, check for known vulnerabilities, and upgrade with automatic test verification. Rolls back any upgrade that breaks tests.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Optional: audit (check only, no changes), upgrade (apply upgrades), or a specific package name to focus on

Context

  • Project type: !find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name go.mod -o -name Gemfile -o -name package.json -o -name Cargo.toml -o -name pyproject.toml \) 2>/dev/null | head -5
  • Lockfiles: !find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name go.sum -o -name Gemfile.lock -o -name package-lock.json -o -name yarn.lock -o -name pnpm-lock.yaml -o -name Cargo.lock -o -name poetry.lock -o -name uv.lock \) 2>/dev/null | head -5

Instructions

Step 1: Detect package manager

Based on the context above, identify the package manager:

File Package Manager Outdated Command
go.mod Go modules go list -m -u all
Gemfile Bundler bundle outdated
package.json npm/yarn/pnpm npm outdated or yarn outdated
Cargo.toml Cargo cargo outdated (if installed)
pyproject.toml pip/poetry/uv pip list --outdated or poetry show --outdated

IF no recognized package manager is found, report "No supported package manager detected." and stop.

IF multiple are found, process each in order.

Step 2: Audit outdated dependencies

Run the appropriate outdated command. Parse the output into a table:

| Package | Current | Latest | Type |
|---------|---------|--------|------|
| foo | 1.2.3 | 2.0.0 | Major |
| bar | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 | Minor |
| baz | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | Patch |

Classify each as Major, Minor, or Patch based on semver difference.

Step 3: Check for vulnerabilities

Run the appropriate audit command:

Package Manager Audit Command
Go govulncheck ./... (if installed, otherwise skip)
Bundler bundle audit check (if installed, otherwise skip)
npm npm audit
Cargo cargo audit (if installed, otherwise skip)
pip pip-audit (if installed, otherwise skip)

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A e179094601c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,116 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

agent-host-chat-contributions

Build and review cross-cutting agent-host chat behavior through lifecycle contributions. Use when adding turn lifecycle side effects, prompt or context injection, restored-history transformation, protocol-action observation, or when reviewing changes that add code to AgentSideEffects or AgentService.

microsoft/vscode · 56 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens