dependency-health-loop

dependency-health-loop is a skill for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 209 tokens per session (2,862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled process for keeping a project's software packages current and checking them for known security problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit dependencies, apply a security fix or one small update, run the project's checks, and open or update a pull request.
Why use it?
Dependencies can become outdated or vulnerable, while large updates may break the project. It makes one safe update at a time, tests the project, and leaves major-version decisions to a person.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit dependencies, apply a security fix or one small update, run the project's checks, and open or update a pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/dependency-health-loop
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 ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill dependency-health-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 209 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,862 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 $0.00209 $0.02862
Opus 5 $0.00105 $0.01431
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.00572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00286

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4e659744f6f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-health-loop 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 10d 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/loops/dependency-health-loop/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dependency-health-loop

A configuration of [loop-controller]. That skill supplies the loop machinery — primitive selection, the full guardrail stack, state externalization. This skill supplies the three things specific to "keep deps healthy": the per-pass recipe (audit → one safe bump → gate → PR), a mechanical proof that combines a security/freshness audit with a green gate after every update, and the HITL boundary that holds majors for a human. Read loop-controller for the guardrails; they're inherited, not repeated here.

Why disable-model-invocation: this loop edits the lockfile, commits, and pushes branches on its own, on a clock. It is user-driven — you want to type /loop 30m /dependency-health-loop (or /dependency-health-loop), not have Claude silently start bumping packages because an advisory landed.

The 5-part contract

Part This loop
trigger a sprint in flight (deps drifting / new advisories), scheduled via /loop 30m /dependency-health-loop, or an explicit /dependency-health-loop
action ONE pass: run the ecosystem audit → pick one safe update (a security fix first, else one over-stale patch/minor) → apply it → run the whole [fix-until-green] gate → open or update a PR. One bump per pass; re-audit the whole tree after
proof no known vulnerabilities AND no pinned dep stale beyond policy AND the gate exits green — all three observed in the same pass, from the audit report + gate exit codes. Default-FAIL: assume unhealthy until the audit proves otherwise
memory dep-health.md (audit snapshot, the bump→result log, deferred majors + why), the PR branch, the lockfile diff, and git history — durable across the session-scoped /loop fires
stop proof holds (clean audit + in-policy freshness + green gate) OR poll/iteration cap OR no-progress for 3 passes (same advisory unfixable within the reversible boundary) OR budget cap OR an HITL checkpoint is hit (a major bump, or a lockfile-semantics change)

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 10d ago First seen · 201 lines · 209 tokens per session scan A 4e659744f6f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-health-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 209 tokens to every session and 2,862 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.

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