dependency-audit

dependency-audit is a skill for Claude Code from marcoguillermaz/Tierward. It costs 133 tokens per session (2,990 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review of outdated software packages across several programming languages and build systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide which dependency updates are safe, which need investigation, and what impact a package change may have.
Why use it?
It separates routine updates from updates that may break the application, then checks changelogs, code usage, and the existing test baseline.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the tierward plugin — 29 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to decide which dependency updates are safe, which need investigation, and what impact a package change may have.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcoguillermaz/tierward/dependency-audit
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 marcoguillermaz/Tierward --skill dependency-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcoguillermaz/Tierward

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tierward, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 1 command, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,990 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 $0.00133 $0.02990
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01495
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00299

Measured 10d ago against content hash 81d9182237b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-audit 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.

packages/cli/templates/tier-l/.claude/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are performing a dependency update audit on the current project. The skill is read-only by default: it produces a decision report; it never modifies package.json, lockfiles, or any source.

Step 0 — Stack detection + scope resolution

Detect the project stack from the manifest file present at the project root:

Manifest Stack Inventory command
package.json node-ts / node-js npm outdated --json (or pnpm outdated --format json if pnpm-lock.yaml exists)
pyproject.toml or requirements.txt python pip list --outdated --format=json (or uv pip list --outdated --format json if uv.lock exists)
Package.swift swift swift package show-dependencies --format json + manual upstream check
Cargo.toml rust cargo outdated --format json (requires cargo-outdated; fall back to cargo update --dry-run if absent)
go.mod go go list -u -m -json all
Gemfile ruby bundle outdated --parseable
pom.xml or build.gradle* java / kotlin Maven versions:display-dependency-updates or Gradle dependencyUpdates
*.csproj dotnet dotnet list package --outdated --format json

If the manifest is absent or unrecognized, STOP and report not applicable: stack not detected.

If a sibling PATTERNS.md exists for the detected stack, load it for tier classification. Otherwise apply only the agnostic Tier rules in this body.

Parse $ARGUMENTS for tier: and pkg: filters.

Filter Behavior
tier:A / tier:B / tier:C Restrict the report to one tier.
pkg:<name> Drill into a single package: full changelog fetch + grep of API surface in the codebase.
(no filter) Full report across all tiers.

Tier definitions (agnostic)

Tier A — Safe (patch + minor on non-breaking lib):

  • Patch versions on any package.
  • Minor versions on packages whose changelog explicitly declares no breaking changes AND no API consumed by the project is removed.
  • Failure mode: nearly never breaks; recoverable in seconds.
  • Action: batch in a single PR.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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 · 228 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 81d9182237b6

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dependency-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcoguillermaz/Tierward (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 2,990 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.