dependency-audit

dependency-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sawrus/agent-guides. It costs 0 tokens per session (375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking the security and practical risk of software dependencies, including packages used indirectly by your project. It combines package inventories and audit scans with checks for whether vulnerable code is reachable and exposed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding packages, updating versions, reviewing security findings, or preparing a release to assess exploitability, choose upgrades, and record exceptions.
Why use it?
A scanner result alone does not show whether a vulnerability can affect your application. This process helps separate urgent issues from unreachable findings and temporary risks that need documented owners.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when adding packages, updating versions, reviewing security findings, or preparing a release to assess exploitability, choose upgrades, and record exceptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sawrus/agent-guides/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 sawrus/agent-guides --skill dependency-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sawrus/agent-guides

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 375 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

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 $0.00000 $0.00375
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00038

Measured 7d ago against content hash 5832f76c091f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 7d 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.

areas/software/security/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Skill: Dependency Audit

When to load

When adding/updating dependencies, handling security findings, preparing releases, or reviewing supply-chain risk in PRs.

Objective

Produce a dependency risk decision based on exploitability and business impact, not scanner output alone.

Audit Workflow

  1. Inventory

    • Identify direct and transitive dependencies changed in PR/release.
    • Record package source (registry), maintainer trust indicators, and version deltas.
  2. Scan

    • Run ecosystem-native audit tools + repository policy checks.
    • Capture High/Critical findings with package path and affected components.
  3. Exploitability Triage

    • Determine runtime reachability (is vulnerable code path invoked?).
    • Evaluate exposure (public endpoint, privileged process, internal-only).
    • Assess mitigations (WAF, sandbox, feature flags, auth boundaries).
  4. Classify each finding

    • exploitable-now → block release, fix immediately.
    • not-reachable → document evidence and add VEX status.
    • accepted-risk → temporary exception with owner + expiry.
  5. Remediation Plan

    • Prefer upgrade to patched version.
    • If upgrade is breaking: isolate vulnerability, add compensating controls, schedule upgrade milestone.

Supply-Chain Red Flags

  • Maintainer transfer shortly before suspicious release.
  • Sudden dependency graph expansion unrelated to package purpose.
  • install/postinstall scripts performing unexpected network activity.
  • Obfuscated source in runtime package.
  • Package source not in approved registries.

Output Template (required)

  • Dependency name and version delta
  • Severity and advisory source
  • Reachability evidence
  • Classification (exploitable-now / not-reachable / accepted-risk)
  • Decision and next action
  • Owner and deadline
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. 7d ago First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5832f76c091f

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dependency-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository sawrus/agent-guides (17 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 375 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.