dependency-management

A process for managing software packages when security vulnerabilities, major upgrades, lock-file conflicts, or licence reviews arise.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assess CVEs, decide whether an application is affected, evaluate upgrades, handle lock-file conflicts, and support licence compliance audits.
Why use it?
It requires checking impact, severity, compatibility, and available patches before changing dependencies.

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/jeremydev87/codingbuddy/dependency-management
Any agent
npx skills add JeremyDev87/codingbuddy --skill dependency-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JeremyDev87/codingbuddy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,010 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 $0.00030 $0.03010
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01505
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00602
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00301

Measured 2d ago against content hash d7f18bf941b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-management 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.

packages/rules/.ai-rules/skills/dependency-management/SKILL.md · 382 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 382 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Management

Overview

Dependencies rot silently. Unmanaged packages become security liabilities, compatibility nightmares, and legal risks.

Core principle: ALWAYS assess, prioritize, and plan before updating. Rushed upgrades break production; ignored vulnerabilities enable breaches.

Violating the letter of this process is violating the spirit of dependency management.

First 5 Minutes Checklist (Security Vulnerability)

Use this when CVE alert arrives. Don't think, follow the list.

Minute Action Output
0-1 Identify affected package and version package@version confirmed
1-2 Check CVE severity (CVSS score) Severity (Critical/High/Medium/Low)
2-3 Verify if your app is affected affected or not_affected
3-4 Check if patch available patch_available or no_patch
4-5 If Critical/High: Create incident ticket Stakeholders aware

After 5 minutes: Proceed to Phase 2 (Assess Impact) - you've completed Detect.

The Iron Law

NO UPGRADES WITHOUT IMPACT ASSESSMENT FIRST

If you haven't assessed breaking changes and tested compatibility, you cannot merge dependency updates.

When to Use

Use for ANY dependency management task:

  • Security vulnerability (CVE) response
  • Major version upgrades
  • Lock file merge conflicts
  • License compliance audits
  • Dependency health reviews
  • Outdated package remediation

Use this ESPECIALLY when:

  • Critical CVE discovered (pressure to "just update")
  • Major version jump required (2.x to 3.x)
  • Multiple conflicting lock file changes
  • Preparing for compliance audit
  • Inheriting legacy project with outdated deps

Don't skip when:

  • "It's just a patch version" (patches can break too)
  • "We're in a hurry" (systematic is faster than hotfix loops)
  • "Everyone else uses this version" (your context differs)

When NOT to Use

This skill is for systematic dependency management. Don't use it for:

  • Adding new dependencies - Evaluate need first, then use normal PR process
  • Development-only tools - devDependencies with no prod impact
  • Automatic security patches - Dependabot/Renovate auto-merge for patch versions
  • Learning/prototyping - Experimental projects without production constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 382 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 382 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A d7f18bf941b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository JeremyDev87/codingbuddy (31 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 3,010 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.

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