review-deps

review-deps is a skill for Claude Code from mgiovani/cc-arsenal. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,515 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project dependency audit that checks libraries and packages for security vulnerabilities, licensing risks, and outdated versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect dependencies in projects using package managers such as npm, Python, Rust, Go, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Maven, or Gradle, and report exact packages, versions, and known CVEs when available.
Why use it?
It helps reveal risks in third-party software before upgrades are planned, using available audit tools and security-alert data without changing project files.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the cc-arsenal-review plugin — 7 skills shipped together , and of cc-arsenal

Good fit Use it to inspect dependencies in projects using package managers such as npm, Python, Rust, Go, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Maven, or Gradle, and report exact packages, versions, and known CVEs when available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/review-deps
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 mgiovani/cc-arsenal --skill review-deps
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mgiovani/cc-arsenal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-arsenal-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for review-deps

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/review-deps"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/review-deps/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for review-deps

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/review-deps"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mgiovani/cc-arsenal/review-deps.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,515 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 $0.00131 $0.01515
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00152

Measured 12d ago against content hash 912846dba4a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-deps 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 12d 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/review-deps/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Review

Comprehensive dependency audit covering vulnerability scanning, license compliance, and staleness analysis. This skill performs analysis only: it never modifies code, lock files, or manifests, and never auto-installs upgrades or missing audit tools (it reports them as unavailable instead).

Cite exact package names/versions/CVE IDs from actual tool output, never estimate or invent them.

Audit Workflow

Phase 1: Detect Package Managers & Technology Stack

Discover all package managers present in the project:

Use Glob to check for the existence of these files:
- package.json / package-lock.json / yarn.lock / pnpm-lock.yaml → npm/yarn/pnpm (Node.js)
- pyproject.toml / requirements*.txt / Pipfile / setup.py → pip/uv/poetry (Python)
- Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock → cargo (Rust)
- go.mod / go.sum → go modules (Go)
- composer.json / composer.lock → composer (PHP)
- Gemfile / Gemfile.lock → bundler (Ruby)
- *.csproj / packages.config / Directory.Packages.props → NuGet (.NET)
- pom.xml / build.gradle / build.gradle.kts → Maven/Gradle (Java/Kotlin)
Read each detected manifest to understand:
- Total number of direct dependencies
- Total number of dev dependencies
- Whether lock files are present and committed
- Workspace/monorepo structure (multiple package.json, Cargo.toml workspaces, etc.)

Phase 2: Run Native Audit Commands

Execute the audit command for each detected package manager, run independent commands in parallel, and save all raw output (including "tool not installed" errors) for Phase 3. Commands per ecosystem are in references/audit-commands.md, load it now.

Phase 3: Analyze Vulnerabilities, Licenses, and Staleness

Analyze the Phase 2 output across three dimensions (vulnerability triage, license compliance, staleness/upgrade complexity) scoped per the Scoping section below. Detailed per-dimension steps and risk-classification tables are in references/agent-prompts.md, load it before starting this phase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 912846dba4a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-deps is a skill published in the GitHub repository mgiovani/cc-arsenal (8 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,515 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.

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