dependency-audit

dependency-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Quality-Max/free-qa-skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (652 once invoked), scanned A, 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. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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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npx skills add Quality-Max/free-qa-skills --skill dependency-audit
Clone the repo
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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 652 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.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.00652
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 9d ago against content hash a48befc3b069, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-audit 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 9d 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/dependency-audit/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Audit

Find the risky dependencies before they find you. No signup required.

Prerequisites

  • None. Pure Claude Code. Uses the project's own package manager if available (npm audit, pip-audit, go list), and reasons about the manifest otherwise.

Trigger

  • "Audit my dependencies"
  • "Any risky packages in this repo?"
  • "Check for outdated / vulnerable deps"

Workflow

  1. Detect the ecosystem(s) by manifest:
    • package.json / lockfile → npm/pnpm/yarn
    • requirements.txt / pyproject.toml → pip
    • go.mod → Go · Cargo.toml → Rust · Gemfile → Ruby
  2. If the toolchain is installed, run the native auditor and parse it:
    • npm audit --json · pip-audit -f json · go list -m -u all · cargo audit If not installed, fall back to inspecting the manifest directly.
  3. Flag each dependency against these risk classes:
Risk Signal
Known vulnerability Reported by the native auditor (CVE/advisory)
Unpinned *, latest, or no lock entry — non-reproducible builds
Wide range ^/~ on a 0.x package (any minor can break)
Badly outdated Several majors behind current
Abandoned No release in a long time / archived upstream
Heavy / duplicate Large transitive tree or two versions of the same lib
  1. Rank by severity (vulnerabilities first), and give the concrete bump/replace action.

  2. Output:

## Dependency Audit — package.json (+ lockfile)

**3 vulnerable, 2 unpinned, 1 abandoned**

### Vulnerabilities
- `[email protected]` — prototype pollution (high). Bump to ≥ 4.17.21.
- `[email protected]` — SSRF (moderate). Bump to ≥ 1.6.0 (note: v1 has breaking changes).

### Hygiene
- `left-pad: "*"` — unpinned; pin to an exact version.
- `[email protected]` — package is deprecated/abandoned; migrate to `undici` or `fetch`.
- `[email protected]` — large + in maintenance mode; consider `date-fns` / `Temporal`.

### Suggested commands
  npm i lodash@^4.17.21 axios@^1.6.0
  npm rm request

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Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 9d 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 (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 652 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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