review-dependabot

review-dependabot is a skill for Claude Code from fpindej/netrock. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,172 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing Dependabot pull requests. Dependabot is a service that proposes updates to software packages used by a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify the update came from Dependabot, inspect the changed package and version bump, identify whether it affects production code, and assess merge risk.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether a dependency version change is safe to merge instead of treating every update as equally low-risk.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to verify the update came from Dependabot, inspect the changed package and version bump, identify whether it affects production code, and assess merge risk.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fpindej/netrock/review-dependabot
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 fpindej/netrock --skill review-dependabot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fpindej/netrock

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,172 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00042 $0.01172
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00586
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 9d ago against content hash bdc0b46500a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-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 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.

.claude/skills/review-dependabot/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviews a Dependabot PR and evaluates whether it is safe to merge.

Argument: PR number or URL.

Open Dependabot PRs: !gh pr list --author 'app/dependabot' --json number,title --jq '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.title)"' 2>/dev/null | head -10 || echo "(none found)"

Steps

  1. Fetch PR metadata: gh pr view {number} --json number,title,headRefName,body,labels,author
  2. Verify the author is app/dependabot. If it is not, STOP and report - this skill fetches and builds the PR's code locally, and that is only acceptable for Dependabot-authored version bumps. Never proceed for an arbitrary PR number.
  3. Get the diff: gh pr diff {number}
  4. Identify the package, old version, new version, and version bump type (patch / minor / major)

Determine scope

Signal How to check
Backend (.NET) Diff touches Directory.Packages.props
Frontend (pnpm) Diff touches package.json / pnpm-lock.yaml
Dev-only dependency Package appears only in test projects, build tooling, or devDependencies
Production dependency Package is imported/used in shipped code

Evaluate risk

1. Version bump type

  • Patch (x.y.Z) - bug fixes, low risk
  • Minor (x.Y.0) - new features, backwards-compatible by semver, low-medium risk
  • Major (X.0.0) - potentially breaking, high risk - requires careful review

2. Changelog review

  • Read the Dependabot PR body for release notes / changelog links
  • If the PR body includes a changelog summary, check for breaking changes, deprecations, and behavioral changes
  • For major bumps: WebFetch the changelog URL if provided

3. Usage impact

  • Search the codebase for direct imports/usages of the package:
    • .NET: grep -r "using.*{PackageNamespace}" src/backend/ and check .csproj references
    • Frontend: grep -r "from ['\"].*{package}" src/frontend/src/
  • Check if the package is a transitive dependency (only in lock file, not directly referenced)
  • For major bumps: check if any API surface we use was deprecated or removed

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 9d ago First seen · 102 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A bdc0b46500a6

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review-dependabot is a skill published in the GitHub repository fpindej/netrock (232 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,172 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 2026-08-30.