dependabot-review

dependabot-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins. It costs 90 tokens per session (2,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing open Dependabot pull requests. Dependabot is a service that opens pull requests to update a project's dependencies, and this workflow classifies their risk before advising on or performing safe merges.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list and classify open Dependabot requests, inspect one request in detail, or merge requests classified as safe after choosing a target branch.
Why use it?
It helps separate routine dependency updates from changes that may need closer review, such as major updates or security-related changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to list and classify open Dependabot requests, inspect one request in detail, or merge requests classified as safe after choosing a target branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins/dependabot-review
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 joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins --skill dependabot-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,277 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 $0.00090 $0.02277
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00911
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00228

Measured yesterday against content hash 4ec310c101de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot-review 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 yesterday.

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/git/skills/dependabot-review/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot PR Review

Triage, classify, and merge open Dependabot PRs with risk-based assessment.

Auto-Invoke Triggers

This skill activates when:

  1. Keywords: "dependabot", "dependabot PRs", "dependency updates", "merge dependabot", "review dependabot", "dependency PRs", "bump PRs", "update dependencies"
  2. Command: /dependabot-review

Arguments

  • (no args) — Triage mode: list all open Dependabot PRs with risk classification
  • --merge-safe — Merge all PRs classified as SAFE TO MERGE (asks for target branch first)
  • --pr <number> — Deep-dive analysis of a single Dependabot PR
  • --base <branch> — Target branch for retargeting PRs before merge (skips the prompt)

Prerequisites

  • GitHub CLI (gh) authenticated with repo access
  • Repository must have open Dependabot PRs

Verify:

gh auth status

Workflow

Step 1: Fetch Open Dependabot PRs

gh pr list \
  --author "app/dependabot" \
  --state open \
  --json number,title,labels,headRefName,baseRefName,mergeable,isDraft,createdAt,statusCheckRollup \
  --limit 50

If --pr <number> was provided, fetch that single PR instead:

gh pr view <number> \
  --json number,title,body,labels,headRefName,baseRefName,mergeable,isDraft,createdAt,statusCheckRollup,additions,deletions

If no Dependabot PRs are found, report "No open Dependabot PRs found" and stop.

Step 2: Enrich Each PR

For each PR, gather additional data:

Files changed (for lockfile-only detection):

gh pr diff <number> --name-only

CI status: Extract from statusCheckRollup in the JSON. Classify as:

  • pass — all checks SUCCESS or SKIPPED
  • fail — any check FAILURE
  • pending — any check IN_PROGRESS or QUEUED
  • none — no checks ran

Step 3: Classify Each PR

Apply the risk matrix to each PR:

Parse version info from PR title:

Dependabot titles follow: build(deps): bump <package> from <old> to <new> in <path>

For grouped updates: build(deps): bump the <group> group across N directory with M updates

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. yesterday First seen · 256 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 4ec310c101de

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dependabot-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 2,277 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.