renovate-security-triage

renovate-security-triage is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mitodl/agent-kit. It costs 157 tokens per session (4,539 once invoked), scanned A, original, BSD-3-Clause.

A read-only workflow for ranking open Renovate pull requests by security urgency. Renovate is a tool that creates pull requests to update software dependencies, and the ranking uses vulnerability severity and exploit-likelihood data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find relevant open Renovate pull requests, enrich them with advisory data, and produce a ranked report without changing GitHub.
Why use it?
Organisations may have too many dependency-update pull requests to inspect one by one. Filtering to repositories you recently worked in reduces noise while highlighting security-relevant updates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to find relevant open Renovate pull requests, enrich them with advisory data, and produce a ranked report without changing GitHub.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mitodl/agent-kit/renovate-security-triage
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 mitodl/agent-kit --skill renovate-security-triage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mitodl/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mitodl/agent-kit/renovate-security-triage"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mitodl/agent-kit/renovate-security-triage.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,539 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 $0.00157 $0.04539
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.02269
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00908
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00454

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3659ed327471, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

renovate-security-triage 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/active-repos.sh, scripts/advisory-lookup.sh, scripts/classify-renovate-prs.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/process/renovate-security-triage/SKILL.md · 347 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 347 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Renovate Security Triage

Turns an org-wide flood of Renovate PRs into a short, ranked list of the ones that matter to you. The pattern is scope → enumerate → enrich → score → rank → report, with five scripts doing the mechanical work and the model supplying the judgment that advisory metadata cannot.

Calibration from a real mitodl run: 436 open Renovate PRs org-wide across 78 repos → 175 PRs in the user's 21 active repos → 36 security-relevant, of which 2 critical and 15 high. The active-repo filter is what makes this readable; without it the report is noise.

Read-only, without exception

This skill never mutates GitHub. No merging, no commenting, no review requests, no label edits, no Dependency Dashboard checkbox ticking, no gh api --method POST/PATCH/PUT/DELETE, no GraphQL mutation. Every script here issues queries only.

If the user wants a PR applied, that is the dependency-updates skill's job — name it and hand off. Do not add write capability to this skill, and do not port the "optionally act" phase from the sibling github-pr-triage skill.

Scripts

Script Purpose
scripts/active-repos.sh Repos in the org the user contributed to in the window
scripts/fetch-renovate-prs.sh Open Renovate PRs, filtered to those repos
scripts/enrich-renovate-prs.sh Per-PR body/files/checks + parse Renovate's update table
scripts/advisory-lookup.sh Resolve GitHub Advisory Database records; attach severity/CVSS/EPSS
scripts/classify-renovate-prs.sh Assign urgency tiers and sort

The .sh files are orchestration only (argument parsing, gh calls, parallelism). The heavy data transforms live as standalone jq programs in scripts/jq/, one per stage, run with jq -f; shared shell helpers are in scripts/lib.sh and the fixed file locations in scripts/paths.sh.

Never pass file paths

Run every command below exactly as written. The scripts hand JSON to each other through fixed locations they compute themselves (scripts/paths.sh, defaulting under ~/.cache/renovate-security-triage/) and print where they wrote. Each accepts explicit paths for ad-hoc use, but the pipeline must not supply them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 347 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 347 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 3659ed327471

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renovate-security-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository mitodl/agent-kit (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 4,539 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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