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.
npx agentmods add skills/socketdev/sauce/socket-dep-replacenpx skills add SocketDev/sauce --skill socket-dep-replacegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SocketDev/sauceWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00029 | $0.03634 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.01817 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00727 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00363 |
Grade A, and why
socket-dep-replace 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 yesterday.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 294 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Dep Replace
Replace a dependency with an alternative package, eliminate it via code rewrite, or use socket-optimize for optimized replacements. This skill targets ONE specific package at a time - building a full usage map, presenting replacement strategies, and executing the migration with build and test verification.
When to Use
- The user wants to swap a dependency for a different package (e.g., migrating from
momenttodayjs) - The user wants to replace a flagged or unmaintained dependency
- The user wants to inline a trivial utility package (e.g.,
is-odd,left-pad) - The user wants to use
socket-optimizeto find optimized replacements - The user asks how to migrate away from a specific package
Prerequisites
- Socket CLI - optional but recommended. Required for Strategy A (
socket-optimize). Install via/socket-setupif not available. - Build and test commands - the project should have a working build and test setup for verification.
Step 1: Identify the Target Package
If the user specifies a package name, use that. If they also specify a replacement, note it for Step 5.
If the user isn't sure which package to replace, help them pick one:
- Suggest running
/socket-scanfirst to identify flagged or low-score dependencies - Check for packages with known maintenance issues or security alerts
- Look for trivial utility packages that could be inlined
One package at a time. If the user wants to replace multiple packages, run this workflow once per package sequentially.
Step 2: Detect the Ecosystem
Identify which ecosystem the target package belongs to by checking manifest and lock files:
| Ecosystem | Manifest Files |
|---|---|
| npm | package.json + package-lock.json |
| pnpm | package.json + pnpm-lock.yaml |
| yarn | package.json + yarn.lock |
| PyPI | requirements.txt, pyproject.toml, setup.py, setup.cfg, Pipfile |
| Cargo | Cargo.toml |
| Bundler | Gemfile |
| Maven | pom.xml |
| NuGet | *.csproj, packages.config |
| Go | go.mod |
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.
- yesterday First seen · 294 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 34b52b6867de
socket-dep-replace is a skill published in the GitHub repository SocketDev/sauce (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 3,634 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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