managing-dependencies

managing-dependencies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from New1Direction/korgex. It costs 17 tokens per session (316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for adding, updating, and checking third-party packages used by a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a package, changing its version, reviewing its license or maintenance, or auditing the project's dependency files.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary dependencies, supply-chain risk, unexpected breaking changes, and exposure to known vulnerable versions.

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/new1direction/korgex/managing-dependencies
Any agent
npx skills add New1Direction/korgex --skill managing-dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/New1Direction/korgex

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 managing-dependencies

README.md
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 316 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 $0.00017 $0.00316
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 74eb5b3cc9bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-dependencies 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 5d 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.

src/skills_builtin/managing-dependencies/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Every dependency is code you now own the risk of. Add and update them with intent.

  1. Do you need it? For something small/standard, a few lines beat a new dependency (and its transitive tree, supply-chain risk, and upgrade burden). Prefer the standard library where it's reasonable.
  2. Vet before adding. Check it's maintained, widely used, appropriately licensed, and from the real source (watch for typosquats). Prefer well-known packages over obscure ones for sensitive work.
  3. Pin and record. Add it to the project's manifest with a sensible version constraint; commit the lockfile. Don't rely on "latest" implicitly.
  4. Updating: read the changelog for breaking changes, update one major thing at a time, and run the full test suite after. Treat a major-version bump as a real change, not a rubber stamp.
  5. Security: periodically check for known-vulnerable versions; bump promptly when an advisory hits a dependency you use.
  6. Match the project. Use the existing tool/manifest/lockfile and conventions — don't introduce a second package manager or dependency style.

Red flag: adding a heavy dependency for a one-liner, or bumping a major version without reading what changed or running tests.

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. 5d ago First seen · 28 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 74eb5b3cc9bb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

managing-dependencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository New1Direction/korgex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 316 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.