dependency-impact

dependency-impact is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nearform/lastlight. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for estimating how widely a major dependency update could affect a repository. A dependency is an external package or tool that the project relies on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rate a dependency pull request's likely impact as low, medium, or high using release notes, dependency type, usage, security sensitivity, and CI results.
Why use it?
A major version number alone does not show whether an update is risky; a development-only type package and a runtime framework can have very different consequences.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nearform/lastlight/dependency-impact
Any agent
npx skills add nearform/lastlight --skill dependency-impact
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nearform/lastlight

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 dependency-impact

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,205 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00074 $0.01205
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 6d ago against content hash 881c24bafc41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-impact 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 6d 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.

apps/server/skills/dependency-impact/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency impact

A major version bump is not one thing. @types/node 20→21 and a runtime framework rewrite are both "major", and semver magnitude alone cannot tell them apart. So judge the blast radius, not the version number: what could this change actually break in this repository?

No checkout. The merge workflow has no working tree by design — it is the cheap path, and keeping it cheap is what lets it run on every green dependency PR. Every tool below is a github_* read tool already available to you. Never clone, and never pull a lockfile diff: judge from the PR title, the file list and the manifest change first, and reach for more evidence only when the tier is still in doubt.

The evidence

Gather in this order and stop as soon as the tier is decided — each row costs more than the one above it.

# Evidence How
1 Dev vs runtime dependency The manifest change: dependencies vs devDependencies. @types/*, linters, formatters and test runners are dev-only; so is a GitHub Actions tag/SHA bump
2 Release notes / changelog / breaking-change headings github_get_pull_request → the body. Dependabot embeds Release notes, Changelog and Commits sections, plus a compatibility-score badge. The body comes back capped at 4000 chars; if it was cut and you still can't see whether the release documents a breaking change, re-call with full_body: true — a buried breaking-changes heading is precisely what this row is for. Don't reach for it when the head of the notes already decided the tier
3 Blast radius github_search_code for from "<pkg>" / require("<pkg>") — count the direct import sites. The result's total_count is that count, so read it rather than tallying items, and don't fan out a query per import spelling when one is enough to size the blast radius
4 Security sensitivity Does the package sit in auth, crypto, serialization, network, file I/O, or database-driver territory?
5 Behavioural evidence The settled check state supplied in your prompt — deterministic, computed in code, not inferred from mergeable_state

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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. 6d ago First seen · 84 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 881c24bafc41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-impact is a skill published in the GitHub repository nearform/lastlight (22 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,205 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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