dependency-check

dependency-check is a skill for Claude Code from NovaCode37/claude-security-skills. It costs 81 tokens per session (619 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scanner for Python and npm project dependency files. Dependencies are external packages your code relies on, and the scanner compares their versions with known security advisories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check requirements.txt, package.json, or a directory containing them before releases or in CI, including checks for unpinned versions.
Why use it?
It helps find vulnerable packages and loose version ranges that can make builds unpredictable or widen supply-chain risk. It works offline by default and can optionally query OSV.dev for current advisories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-security-skills plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check requirements.txt, package.json, or a directory containing them before releases or in CI, including checks for unpinned versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/novacode37/claude-security-skills/dependency-check
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 NovaCode37/claude-security-skills --skill dependency-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovaCode37/claude-security-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-security-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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-check

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 81 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 619 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00081 $0.00619
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00062

Measured today against content hash 39cdcaacc97e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (checker.py, tests/test_checker.py), 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/dependency-check/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Check

Scans Python (requirements.txt) and npm (package.json) manifests for known-vulnerable versions and supply-chain risks. Offline by default — it ships a bundled advisory database so it runs in air-gapped CI — with an optional live OSV.dev lookup. Pure standard library.

When to use this skill

  • "Are any of my dependencies vulnerable?"
  • "Audit requirements.txt / package.json."
  • "Check for vulnerable / outdated packages before release."

What it reports

  • Known vulnerabilities — version matches against the bundled advisory DB (or OSV.dev with --online), with CVE/ID, severity and summary.
  • Unpinned dependencies — ranges (^, ~, >=) or missing pins that make builds non-reproducible and widen supply-chain exposure.

How to run it

# Offline scan (bundled advisory DB)
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py requirements.txt
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py package.json

# Scan a directory (auto-discovers both manifest types)
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py .

# Live advisory lookup via OSV.dev
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py requirements.txt --online

# JSON output
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py . --json

# Only report MEDIUM or higher findings (unpinned warnings are LOW)
python skills/dependency-check/checker.py . --min-severity medium

Exit codes: 0 clean · 1 findings reported · 2 no manifest / usage error. Unpinned dependencies are reported, so they fail the build too; suppress them with --no-unpinned, or raise --min-severity to filter advisory findings out of both the report and the exit code.

  1. Run offline first for a fast baseline, then --online for full coverage if the user has network access.
  2. For each vulnerable package, recommend the minimum fixed version and note breaking-change risk.
  3. Encourage exact pins (== / lockfiles) for reproducible, auditable builds.

Note

The bundled DB is intentionally small (well-known historical CVEs) so the tool is self-contained and testable. For comprehensive coverage use --online (OSV.dev) or integrate a dedicated scanner; treat the offline DB as a fast first pass.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · +5 lines 39cdcaacc97e
  2. 10d ago First seen · 67 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 7151510a6b0b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository NovaCode37/claude-security-skills (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 619 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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