osv-scanner

osv-scanner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,213 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scanner that checks open-source packages against the OSV database, which records known security vulnerabilities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning lockfiles, package manifests, software bills of materials, source folders, Git repositories, and monorepos. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple projects.
Why use it?
It finds risky dependency versions before they reach production and can identify versions that contain fixes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Scanning lockfiles, package manifests, software bills of materials, source folders, Git repositories, and monorepos. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/osv-scanner
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 seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills --skill osv-scanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,213 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 180
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00037 $0.01213
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00121

Measured 9d ago against content hash 27144186eed8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

osv-scanner 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.

openclaw-skills/osv-scanner/SKILL.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OSV-Scanner

Trigger / When to Use

Use this skill when the user wants a fast open-source dependency vulnerability scan based on the OSV database, especially for projects with lockfiles, package manifests, SBOMs, or git repositories.

Good trigger phrases:

  • "scan dependencies with OSV"
  • "check package-lock or go.sum for CVEs"
  • "find vulnerable open-source packages"
  • "scan this SBOM against OSV"
  • "add OSV scanning to CI"

Core Capabilities

  • Scan source directories and automatically discover lockfiles, SBOMs, and git metadata.
  • Scan specific package manifests or lockfiles.
  • Scan SPDX or CycloneDX SBOMs.
  • Report vulnerabilities from the OSV database across language ecosystems.
  • Work well as a lightweight SCA gate in CI.
  • Provide actionable package names, versions, vulnerability IDs, and fixed versions when available.

Workflow

1. Confirm Scope

Determine whether the user wants to scan:

  • The current repository.
  • A single manifest or lockfile.
  • An SBOM file.
  • A monorepo with multiple package roots.
  • Git history or checked-out code only.

Prefer scanning lockfiles when present because they represent resolved dependency versions.

2. Verify Installation

osv-scanner --version

If it is missing, recommend the official OSV-Scanner installation method for the user's platform.

3. Run Source Scan

Use source scanning for normal repositories:

osv-scanner scan source .

Scan a specific lockfile or manifest:

osv-scanner scan source --lockfile package-lock.json .

Scan an SBOM:

osv-scanner scan source -L sbom.spdx.json .

4. Capture JSON Output

Use JSON when the result needs to feed automation:

osv-scanner scan source --format json --output osv-results.json .

If the installed version does not support a flag exactly as written, run osv-scanner --help and adapt to the installed CLI syntax.

5. Triage Results

For each finding, record:

  • Package name and ecosystem.
  • Vulnerable version.
  • Introduced and fixed version ranges.
  • Vulnerability aliases such as CVE or GHSA.
  • Whether the package is direct or transitive.
  • Owning package manager and lockfile path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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 · 187 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 27144186eed8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

osv-scanner is a skill published in the GitHub repository seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills (70 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,213 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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