socket-dep-patch

socket-dep-patch is a skill for Claude Code from SocketDev/sauce. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,135 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A workflow that applies Socket's binary-level fixes to vulnerable dependencies without changing their version numbers. It also checks whether those fixes will be reapplied after installation or deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to patch all packages with available Socket fixes and check or configure persistence through installation hooks, CI, or Dockerfile steps.
Why use it?
It can address vulnerabilities without the version changes and code migrations that dependency upgrades may require. It also highlights when a patch would otherwise disappear during a later install.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the socket-fix plugin — 5 skills shipped together , and of socket-skills

Good fit Use it to patch all packages with available Socket fixes and check or configure persistence through installation hooks, CI, or Dockerfile steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-dep-patch
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 SocketDev/sauce --skill socket-dep-patch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SocketDev/sauce

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install socket-fix, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin socket-dep-patch — /plugin install socket-dep-patch after adding the marketplace above.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,135 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00042 $0.03135
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01254
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00314

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3392712b2fe1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

socket-dep-patch scanned grade B with 2 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 1mo 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.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

| Standalone (macOS/Linux) | `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SocketDev/socket-patch/main/install.sh \| sh` |

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

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

| Standalone (macOS/Linux) | `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SocketDev/socket-patch/main/install.sh \| sh` |
skills/socket-fix/socket-dep-patch/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dep Patch

Apply Socket's binary-level security patches to vulnerable dependencies without changing their version numbers. This skill uses socket-patch apply to fix known vulnerabilities in-place. Patches are applied in bulk - socket-patch apply patches all available packages at once.

After applying patches, this skill checks whether the project is set up to keep patches applied automatically (via postinstall hooks, CI steps, or Dockerfile layers). If not, it walks through configuring automated patching.

How This Differs from /socket-dep-upgrade

/socket-dep-patch (this skill) /socket-dep-upgrade
Primary tool socket-patch apply socket fix
What it does Applies binary-level patches without changing versions Upgrades dependency versions to fix CVEs
Version changes? No Yes
Code changes needed? No Possibly (API migration for major bumps)
Scope All patchable packages at once One dependency at a time
When to use You need fixes without version churn, or the upstream fix doesn't exist yet You want to bring dependencies up to date

Use /socket-dep-patch when you want to fix vulnerabilities without risking breaking changes from version upgrades. Use /socket-dep-upgrade when you want full version upgrades with automated code migration.

When to Use

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 1mo ago First seen · 292 lines · 42 tokens per session scan B 3392712b2fe1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

socket-dep-patch is a skill published in the GitHub repository SocketDev/sauce (3 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,135 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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