dependabot-sweep

dependabot-sweep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from harnessprotocol/harness-kit. It costs 149 tokens per session (2,348 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow skill for resolving open Dependabot alerts, which report known security problems in software dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to update vulnerable packages across supported ecosystems, regenerate lockfiles, run audits and installs, then create and merge a pull request when safe.
Why use it?
It handles fetching, fixing, testing, and preparing the repository changes as one process, reducing repetitive dependency-maintenance work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the dependabot-sweep plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/dependabot-sweep
Any agent
npx skills add harnessprotocol/harness-kit --skill dependabot-sweep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harnessprotocol/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dependabot-sweep, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 dependabot-sweep

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/dependabot-sweep"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/harnessprotocol/harness-kit/dependabot-sweep.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 149 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,348 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 $0.00149 $0.02348
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01174
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00235

Measured 4d ago against content hash 1921f4edc557, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot-sweep 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.

plugins/dependabot-sweep/skills/dependabot-sweep/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot Sweep

Resolve open Dependabot alerts end to end: fetch → triage → fix per ecosystem → verify → branch → commit → push → PR → merge. Built to run with minimal intervention.

Announce at start: "I'm using the dependabot-sweep skill to clear open Dependabot alerts."

This is a workflow skill. It invokes the gh CLI, the repo's package managers (pnpm / npm / cargo / pip / go / bundler), git, and may hand the final merge to the merge-pr skill.


Autonomy contract

Running this skill is the user's consent for the whole workflow — fetch through merge — with no confirmation prompts. Do not ask "should I push / open a PR / merge?". Proceed.

Stop and surface a concise summary only when an Escalate condition is hit:

  • A required fix is a SemVer-major bump of a direct dependency (real breaking-change risk).
  • Lockfile regeneration would pull major bumps of packages unrelated to the alert (churn well beyond the targeted package and its subtree). A large minor/patch refresh of a stale lockfile is fine — note it, don't stop.
  • No patched version exists, or the only remaining vulnerable copy is an upstream-pinned / build-only transitive with no reachable fix → document it and recommend dismissing that specific alert; fix everything else and continue.
  • The ecosystem audit still reports the vulnerability after the fix.
  • CI fails and the documented quick-fixes don't resolve it after one attempt.
  • A merge conflict with the base branch that isn't a trivial lockfile re-resolution.
  • A manifest uses an ecosystem with no playbook here.

When you escalate, do the fixable work first, then present only the decision the user actually needs to make.


Step 1 — Fetch open alerts

Resolve the repo, then list every open alert grouped by manifest:

REPO=$(gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner)
gh api "repos/$REPO/dependabot/alerts" --paginate \
  -q '.[] | select(.state=="open")
      | [.number, .security_advisory.severity, .dependency.package.ecosystem,
         .dependency.package.name, .dependency.manifest_path, .dependency.scope,
         .security_vulnerability.vulnerable_version_range,
         .security_vulnerability.first_patched_version.identifier] | @tsv' \
  | sort -t$'\t' -k5 | column -t -s$'\t'

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 lines

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 · 183 lines · 149 tokens per session scan A 1921f4edc557

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependabot-sweep is a skill published in the GitHub repository harnessprotocol/harness-kit (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 149 tokens to every session and 2,348 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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