dependency-update-review

dependency-update-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from stark-ai-de/agent-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review of changes to a project's external software packages and lockfiles. A lockfile records the exact package versions selected by a package manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess dependency pull requests, version upgrades, runtime changes, post-install scripts, native packages, lockfile changes, release notes, and targeted validation.
Why use it?
It helps identify compatibility problems, unexpected transitive changes, supply-chain risks, inconsistent package-manager use, and upgrades that lack suitable tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess dependency pull requests, version upgrades, runtime changes, post-install scripts, native packages, lockfile changes, release notes, and targeted validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stark-ai-de/agent-skills/dependency-update-review
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 stark-ai-de/agent-skills --skill dependency-update-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stark-ai-de/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 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 $0.00047 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 11d ago against content hash bb87e3367851, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-update-review 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 11d 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.

incubator/skills/repo-maintenance/dependency-update-review/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency Update Review

Goal

Assess dependency and lockfile changes for compatibility, supply-chain risk, package-manager consistency, and targeted validation needs.

When to use

  • A PR updates dependencies or lockfiles.
  • The user asks whether an upgrade is safe.
  • Package manager, runtime version, or dependency policy changes need review.

When not to use

  • The task is broad security hygiene; use security-baseline-review.
  • The user asks for a full PR review with dependency changes as one part; use pr-review.
  • Current vulnerability status is required but advisory data is unavailable.

Inputs to inspect

  • Manifest files, lockfiles, package-manager config, and runtime version files.
  • Changelogs or release notes for direct dependency major updates.
  • CI results, test coverage, and code paths using upgraded packages.

Review rubric

Check direct vs transitive changes, major version jumps, package manager consistency, postinstall scripts, binary/native dependencies, lockfile churn, and targeted test coverage. Read references/dependency-risk-rubric.md for detail.

Workflow

  1. Identify the package manager and changed dependency files.
  2. Separate direct dependency updates from transitive lockfile changes.
  3. Flag major upgrades and packages with build, native, auth, or network behavior.
  4. Check whether docs, config, or code need migration updates.
  5. Recommend targeted validation commands.
  6. Do not claim vulnerability status without current advisory evidence.

Safety rules

  • Do not run broad upgrades, lockfile regeneration, or package-manager migrations unless asked.
  • Do not claim current vulnerability status without checking current advisory sources.
  • Do not print registry credentials or private package URLs from config.

References

Read only when needed:

  • references/dependency-risk-rubric.md

Scripts

No bundled scripts.

Output format

Return:

  1. Dependency change summary
  2. Risk assessment
  3. Required migration notes
  4. Targeted validation
  5. Blocking concerns
  6. Recommended next action

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

Files

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.

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. 11d ago First seen · 87 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A bb87e3367851

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-update-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository stark-ai-de/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 588 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 2026-08-31.

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