scanning-dependencies

scanning-dependencies is a skill for Claude Code from qte77/claude-code-plugins. It costs 29 tokens per session (856 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A dependency auditing guide for finding security, licensing, and supply-chain problems in third-party packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit Node.js, Python, Rust, or Go dependencies, including indirect packages, known advisories, licenses, and available fixes.
Why use it?
It helps reveal vulnerable, outdated, restricted, or risky dependencies before they cause problems or reach a release.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the security-audit plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit Node.js, Python, Rust, or Go dependencies, including indirect packages, known advisories, licenses, and available fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qte77/claude-code-plugins/scanning-dependencies
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 qte77/claude-code-plugins --skill scanning-dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/qte77/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-audit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 856 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00029 $0.00856
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00342
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 20d ago against content hash ae4907889514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scanning-dependencies scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 20d 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.

Unrestricted tool accesslowExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

- [ ] Install scripts that execute arbitrary code

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/security-audit/skills/scanning-dependencies/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Vulnerability Scan

Scope: $ARGUMENTS

When to Use

  • Pre-release dependency audit
  • Investigating CVE advisories
  • License compliance review
  • Supply chain risk assessment

Workflow

  1. Detect language ecosystem from manifest files
  2. Run appropriate scanner (see tool matrix)
  3. Check license compliance against project policy
  4. Identify outdated packages with known upgrade paths
  5. Assess supply chain risk indicators
  6. Report findings in structured format

Language Tool Matrix

Ecosystem Manifest Lock File Scanner Command
Node.js package.json package-lock.json npm audit --json
Python pyproject.toml / requirements.txt uv.lock / requirements.txt uv run --with pip-audit pip-audit --skip-editable --format=json (runs in the project env — bare uvx pip-audit audits only its own tool env)
Rust Cargo.toml Cargo.lock cargo audit --json
Go go.mod go.sum govulncheck ./...

Vulnerability Scan Checklist

  • Run ecosystem-specific audit tool
  • Cross-reference findings with NVD/GitHub Advisory Database
  • Check transitive (indirect) dependencies
  • Verify fix versions are available
  • Confirm no yanked/deprecated packages in use

License Compliance Checklist

  • Identify all dependency licenses
  • Flag copyleft licenses (GPL, AGPL) in non-copyleft projects
  • Flag unknown or missing license declarations
  • Check for license compatibility with project license
  • Document any license exceptions

Outdated Dependencies

  • List packages with available major updates
  • List packages with available security patches
  • Identify unmaintained packages (no release in 12+ months)
  • Check for deprecated packages with recommended replacements

Supply Chain Risk Indicators

  • Low download count or recent ownership transfer
  • Typosquatting potential (similar names to popular packages)
  • Install scripts that execute arbitrary code
  • Excessive permission requests
  • Single-maintainer packages for critical functionality

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 20d ago Changed · +1 lines ae4907889514
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 216ba585d14b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scanning-dependencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository qte77/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 856 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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