tracing-dependencies

tracing-dependencies is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer. It costs 25 tokens per session (743 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for tracing how modules depend on one another in a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before changing shared code or when investigating module coupling, change impact, dependency cycles, or architecture violations.
Why use it?
They help reveal circular dependencies, heavily shared modules, hidden coupling, and imports that cross architectural boundaries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the codebase-analyzer plugin — 32 skills, 3 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/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer/tracing-dependencies
Any agent
npx skills add quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer --skill tracing-dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install codebase-analyzer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 743 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 $0.00025 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00074

Measured 3d ago against content hash d6a83bb74aee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tracing-dependencies 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 3d 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/tracing-dependencies/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Announce at start: "Using codebase-analyzer to trace dependencies."

Overview

Build the import/require dependency graph. Find coupling, circular deps, and modules that everything depends on.

Process

  1. Build import graph: grep for import/require/from statements across source files
  2. Identify circular dependencies (A imports B imports A)
  3. Calculate fan-in/fan-out per module (see references/dependency-metrics.md)
  4. Detect god modules (high fan-in + high fan-out)
  5. Find stable vs volatile dependencies (many depend on = stable)
  6. Identify implicit deps (shared state, env vars, global config)
  7. Direction-check against architecture: Map each dependency edge against declared architecture layers. If business logic depends on infrastructure, the Dependency Inversion Principle is violated. The DIRECTION of a dependency matters more than the COUNT. Flag any "lower->higher" import (e.g., domain importing framework) as an architectural violation.
  8. Detect dependency clusters: Modules that always appear in the same import chains form a hidden bounded context. These clusters change together and should be evaluated as a unit. Look for 3+ modules that co-occur across multiple independent import paths.
  9. Check versioning conflicts: Same transitive dependency resolved at different versions across module boundaries creates potential runtime inconsistency. Run npm ls <pkg>, cargo tree -d, or equivalent to detect duplicates.
  10. Output dependency report with risk areas

Quick Reference

Smell Signal Risk
Circular dependency A->B->A in import graph High
God module Fan-in >20 AND fan-out >10 High
Volatile base Low fan-in, high fan-out Medium
Hidden coupling Shared global state High
Dynamic import import() or import() Medium
Architecture violation Business logic imports infrastructure High
Dependency cluster 3+ modules always co-occur in import chains Medium
Version conflict Same package at multiple versions in tree Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 3d ago First seen · 63 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d6a83bb74aee

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tracing-dependencies is a skill published in the GitHub repository quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 743 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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