dependency-checker

dependency-checker is a skill for Claude Code from lyupro/skillforge-mcp. It costs 23 tokens per session (320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A script that runs npm audit, the Node.js package security checker, and reports high- and critical-severity vulnerabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing a Node.js project and reporting vulnerability counts, affected packages, or errors such as a missing package.json.
Why use it?
It gives a quick summary of serious security issues in a project’s installed dependencies.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skillforge plugin — 10 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Auditing a Node.js project and reporting vulnerability counts, affected packages, or errors such as a missing package.json.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lyupro/skillforge-mcp/dependency-checker
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 lyupro/skillforge-mcp --skill dependency-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lyupro/skillforge-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillforge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 320 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 $0.00023 $0.00320
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2557e8cd821b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-checker 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/main.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dependency-checker/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

This is a script-strategy skill. The script in scripts/main.sh runs npm audit --json inside the directory supplied via SKILLFORGE_INPUT (or the SkillForge temp cwd if input is empty), parses the output with jq, and prints a one-line summary to stdout.

Output format (one line):

high=<N> critical=<M> total=<T> packages=<P>

When npm audit errors (no package.json, no node_modules, network failure), the script prints error=<reason> and exits 0 — SkillForge returns the line as a successful invocation, the consuming agent decides what to do with the diagnostic.

Prerequisites:

  • config.security.allowScripts: true in the SkillForge persisted config.
  • npm and jq on the host's resolved PATH (on POSIX, the SandboxRunner restricts PATH to /usr/bin:/bin — install jq system-wide or override DEFAULT_PATH for this skill).
  • SKILLFORGE_INPUT set to an absolute path of the project to audit, or unset to audit the temp cwd (which will report no package.json — usually pass the path explicitly).
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. 1mo ago First seen · 27 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 2557e8cd821b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository lyupro/skillforge-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 320 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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