dependency-audit

dependency-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Quality-Max/free-qa-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,178 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of project packages and libraries for security and maintenance risks. It checks common dependency files such as package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, Cargo.toml, and Gemfile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, or Ruby dependencies with the project's package-manager tools when available, or by inspecting the dependency files directly.
Why use it?
It helps reveal known vulnerabilities, packages that are too loosely specified, abandoned libraries, and versions that are far behind current releases.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to audit JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, or Ruby dependencies with the project's package-manager tools when available, or by inspecting the dependency files directly.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/quality-max/free-qa-skills/dependency-audit
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 Quality-Max/free-qa-skills --skill dependency-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Quality-Max/free-qa-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,178 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00050 $0.01178
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00471
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00236
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00118

Measured today against content hash abfad88963f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

dependency-audit scanned grade B 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 today.

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.

Harvests environment variablesmediumData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

- Do not dump environment variables, package-manager credentials, private registry configuration, settings files, or build/deployment logs. Inspect only explicit non-sensitive fields needed for the audit.

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

skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Audit

Establish what will actually run, then separate verified vulnerability exposure from ordinary update drift. This skill is diagnostic and read-only.

Prerequisites

  • A local repository containing dependency or runtime declarations.
  • Current web access when known-vulnerability, maintenance, or latest-version status must be verified. Without it, report those fields as not assessed.
  • No scanner installation. An already-installed auditor may be used only when its data-handling behavior is known and compatible with the safety boundary below.

Trigger

  • "Audit my dependencies"
  • "Check our PHP, Python, Java, Node.js, or Go packages"
  • "Which libraries or runtimes are vulnerable or unsupported?"
  • "Find stale lockfiles and unsafe dependency ranges"

Workflow

  1. Set scope and evidence time. Record the repository paths, production/build/test scopes included, the current date, and whether external advisory research is available. Never equate "outdated" with "vulnerable."

  2. Inventory every ecosystem. Detect manifests, lockfiles, toolchain files, container bases, and CI/runtime declarations. Cover Node.js, Python, PHP Composer, Java Maven/Gradle, Go, Rust, and Ruby when present. Use the ecosystem reference for the relevant sources of truth.

  3. Resolve what actually ships. Prefer an exact lockfile entry, vendored module metadata, build artifact metadata, or an already-generated dependency report over a manifest range. Record:

    • package coordinate and exact resolved version;
    • direct or transitive relationship and dependency path;
    • production, development, test, build, plugin, or optional scope;
    • the file and location supporting the conclusion;
    • whether the lockfile matches the manifest and is used by the production build.

    If only a range is available, label the version unresolved. Do not silently resolve dependencies, execute project code, download plugins, or mutate a lockfile.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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 · +8 lines scan A → B abfad88963f5
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A a48befc3b069

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dependency-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository Quality-Max/free-qa-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,178 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (harvests environment variables). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.