sq is a command-line data-wrangling tool that lets users query, join, inspect, compare, and transform SQL databases and structured files such as CSV and Excel using SQL or jq-like queries. It is intended for people working with databases and tabular or document data. Catalogue add-ons provide workflows for using sq from coding agents.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to neilotoole/sq. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neilotoole/sq/master/.agents/skills/sq-gomod-dependabot/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neilotoole/sqWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/neilotoole/sq/sq-gomod-dependabot)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neilotoole/sq/sq-gomod-dependabot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neilotoole/sq/sq-gomod-dependabot/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neilotoole/sq/sq-gomod-dependabot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neilotoole/sq/sq-gomod-dependabot.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00054 | $0.00839 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00419 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00168 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
sq-gomod-dependabot 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
sq-gomod-dependabot
Maintainer workflow for Dependabot PRs updating go.mod /
go.sum at the repository root. For site/
Bun/Hugo PRs, use sq-site-dependabot; for
GitHub Actions pins under .github/workflows/, use
sq-actions-dependabot.
No bun.lock sequencing — multiple gomod PRs are less coupled than site PRs,
but still prefer merging after CI is green.
Operating modes
| Mode | Actions | Merge |
|---|---|---|
| Audit | List/classify; direct vs indirect | No |
| Validate | Diff review; make test-short |
No |
| Full | Validate + merge with consent | Per PR |
Default to Audit unless the user asks to merge.
Phase 0 — Tool bootstrap
command -v gh >/dev/null && gh auth status
command -v go >/dev/null && go version
Phase 1 — Discovery
From repository root:
gh pr list --author 'app/dependabot' --state open \
--json number,title,headRefName,mergeable,statusCheckRollup \
--jq '.[] | select(.headRefName | test("^dependabot/")) | select(.title | test("go|gomod|golang"; "i"))'
The title filter matches go/golang, so it also catches GitHub Actions PRs
like goreleaser-action or golangci-lint-action. Those touch only
.github/workflows/, not go.mod; hand them to
sq-actions-dependabot. Confirm the PR does
not only touch site/ (gh pr diff <n> --name-only); if it touches both,
split judgment: site hunks → sq-site-dependabot.
Phase 2 — Risk
| Level | Examples | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Low | Patch indirect, test-only modules | Merge after CI |
| Medium | Direct minor/patch runtime dep | Notes + test-short |
| High | Major, replace, breaking sec |
Hold; full review |
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 103 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b49f2639ffd6
sq-gomod-dependabot is a skill published in the GitHub repository neilotoole/sq (2,564 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 839 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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