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-scannpx skills add SocketDev/sauce --skill socket-scangit 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 | $0.00086 | $0.05009 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.02505 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.01002 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00501 |
Grade A, and why
socket-scan 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 — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Scan
Run a dependency scan using the Socket CLI. For authenticated users, scans run in temporary read-only mode (--tmp) by default - results are returned locally without creating a persistent entry in the Socket dashboard.
For unauthenticated users (no token or demo token only), the skill prompts the user to log in or create a free account. If the user skips login, the scan falls back to cdxgen - but alert accuracy will be greatly reduced and SBOM accuracy will be poor.
When the user is authenticated with a full account (free or enterprise) and explicitly wants results saved, the scan can be promoted to a persistent dashboard scan.
When to Use
- The user wants to scan their project's dependencies for vulnerabilities or supply-chain risks
- The user wants to create a scan visible in the Socket dashboard
- The user wants reachability analysis to determine if vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in their code
- The user is adding or updating dependencies and wants to verify security posture
- The user asks for a full security audit of their dependency tree
- The user wants to check for malware in their dependencies
- The user needs to construct an SBOM from scan data for compliance
- The user wants to audit licenses across all dependencies
- The user needs to check for GPL, SSPL, or other restrictive licenses in a commercial project
- The user wants a compliance report for a security review or procurement process
- The user asks about license compatibility across their dependency tree
Prerequisites
Socket CLI Setup
Use pnpm dlx socket to run the Socket CLI - this always fetches the latest version and requires no global install. Verify it works:
pnpm dlx socket --version
All commands in this skill use the pnpm dlx socket prefix (e.g., pnpm dlx socket scan create ...).
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.
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 · 411 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 100aaa526a88
socket-scan is a skill published in the GitHub repository SocketDev/sauce (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 5,009 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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