version-check

version-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nexus-substrate/nexus-agents. It costs 38 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for checking whether project dependencies are current, supported, compatible with the required Node.js version, and free of reported security problems. Dependencies are external packages that the project relies on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before adding dependencies or setting up a project. It checks package versions and metadata, then runs the package manager's security audit.
Why use it?
It catches deprecated, stale, incompatible, or vulnerable packages before they cause build failures or security issues. It also provides a documented way to choose replacements and track migrations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the nexus-agents plugin — 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/version-check
Any agent
npx skills add nexus-substrate/nexus-agents --skill version-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nexus-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 16 agents, 1 hook.

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 version-check

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/version-check.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/version-check)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/version-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nexus-substrate/nexus-agents/version-check.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 625 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 $0.00038 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 4d ago against content hash bed49eab6e88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

version-check 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 4d 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/version-check/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Version Check Skill

Full documentation: CLAUDE.md

Quick Process

1. Check Package Status

npm view <package> version
npm view <package> deprecated
npm view <package> time.modified
npm view <package> engines

2. Evaluate Criteria

Criterion Pass Fail
Deprecation Not deprecated Deprecated
Last update Within 12 months Over 12 months
Node version Compatible with 22.x Incompatible
Security No advisories Has advisories

3. Run Security Audit

pnpm audit

Actions

If deprecated or outdated:

  1. Find replacement
  2. Create GitHub issue to track migration
  3. Document migration path

See CLAUDE.md for complete version verification protocol.

Anti-rationalization — Dependency choice

Excuse Counter
"It's the most-starred package" Stars correlate with marketing, not maintenance. Check last-commit, open-issues-vs-resolved-rate, recent CVE response time.
"Latest version is fine, just install it" Latest may be a 0.x with breaking changes, or a v2 alpha. Check stability marker — latest tag isn't always stable.
"I'll fix any issues that come up" Cost of npm uninstall + replacement is a multiple of npm view upfront. Ten seconds of due diligence saves an afternoon.

Red flags

  • Dependency added via npm install <name> without a version-check cite in the PR
  • Last commit > 12 months on a non-trivial dep
  • Maintenance signal poor (open issues piling, no recent releases) but added anyway
  • License incompatible with our MIT (e.g., AGPL, GPLv3 in CLI/library code)

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 4d ago First seen · 74 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A bed49eab6e88

Subscribe to this mod's changes

version-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository nexus-substrate/nexus-agents (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 625 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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