dep-debt

dep-debt is a skill for Claude Code from hereinthehive/gotrino-assistant. It costs 45 tokens per session (624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A static review of project dependencies, the external packages that code relies on, for signs of ageing or neglect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before upgrades, dependency audits, or technology-renewal planning, including across a monorepo, which is a repository containing multiple related projects.
Why use it?
It highlights outdated, deprecated, abandoned, unused, or inconsistently versioned packages before they cause maintenance problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the gotrino-assistant plugin — 18 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it before upgrades, dependency audits, or technology-renewal planning, including across a monorepo, which is a repository containing multiple related projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hereinthehive/gotrino-assistant/dep-debt
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 hereinthehive/gotrino-assistant --skill dep-debt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hereinthehive/gotrino-assistant

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gotrino-assistant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 624 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 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 $0.00045 $0.00624
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00312
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash 30e9a447dc3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dep-debt 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 12d 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/dep-debt/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dep Debt

Surface dependency debt and point at the packages most likely to bite.

Philosophy

"Which dependencies will bite us, and when?"

Every dependency is a bet: that it'll keep working, stay maintained, not have vulnerabilities. Old bets decay. Some libs went abandoned years ago; some pinned versions missed a major release; some packages are installed and imported nowhere. Dep-debt is the audit of those bets.

Not a replacement for npm audit / pip-audit. This skill reads manifests statically and spots patterns. For vulnerability scans, use the ecosystem tool — this skill tells you where to look.

Scope

User may specify a directory. Default: project root. For monorepos, scan all manifests found.

Config Integration

Follow references/config-migration.md for preflight.

Read .assistant-config.md for:

  • Stack (which manifests are expected)
  • Acknowledged Debt (deps acknowledged as pinned-intentionally)

Stack Detection

Glob for all supported manifests (see references/dep-debt-manifests.md). In a monorepo, expect multiple.

Process

1. Understand context

List all manifests found. Read each. Note declared deps, versions, lockfile presence.

2. Scan

  • Outdated / pre-1.0 versions: compare declared versions to signals in the reference.
  • Abandoned packages: match against the known-deprecated list.
  • Unused deps: for each declared dep, Grep the source for import/require/from X import. If no match, flag as "appears unused; verify build scripts".
  • Version drift: in monorepos, compare the same dep across manifests.

3. Group by manifest

Organize findings per manifest file. A monorepo with three packages should produce three location groups, not one flat list.

4. Assess impact

  • High: abandoned packages on runtime critical paths, deps with known major security incidents
  • Medium: pre-1.0 versions of stable libs, version drift
  • Low: dev deps slightly behind, small unused deps

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 12d ago First seen · 72 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 30e9a447dc3a

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dep-debt is a skill published in the GitHub repository hereinthehive/gotrino-assistant (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 624 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.