eval-npm

eval-npm is a skill for Claude Code from stonegiantstudio/skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,703 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for assessing npm packages, which are reusable JavaScript or TypeScript components, for maintenance, adoption, security, and alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a package.json file, compare packages for a use case, check security advisories, and review package health or supply-chain warning signs.
Why use it?
It helps reveal abandoned packages, known security problems, suspicious publishing patterns, and better options before you add a dependency.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the stone-giant plugin — 36 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a package.json file, compare packages for a use case, check security advisories, and review package health or supply-chain warning signs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stonegiantstudio/skills/eval-npm
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 stonegiantstudio/skills --skill eval-npm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stonegiantstudio/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install stone-giant, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills.

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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 2,703 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 $0.00037 $0.02703
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01352
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00541
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00270

Measured 9d ago against content hash 95067eb2f440, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eval-npm 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.

plugins/stone-giant/skills/eval-npm/SKILL.md · 284 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 284 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NPM Package Evaluator

Evaluate npm packages to find the best option for a given use case. Compare maintenance health, community adoption, and identify promising newcomers while avoiding abandoned projects.

Instructions

Step 0: Security Advisory Pre-Check

Before evaluating any packages, run the npm-security-advisory skill procedure against the target packages. The skill produces three classes of findings that factor into evaluation:

  1. Advisory hits from Socket.dev/OSV/npm audit (known CVEs, known malware).
  2. Step 4 metadata anomalies — supply-chain worm signals: FRESH, SCRIPT_ADDED, CADENCE_BURST, PROVENANCE_REGRESSION, NEW_PUBLISHER+FRESH, IOC_MATCH, YANKED, etc. These catch attacks before threat feeds do.
  3. Positive signals like PROVENANCE_OK — surface these in the report as confidence-raising evidence.
  • Mode 1 (audit): Check all packages from package.json. MALWARE/CRITICAL findings (advisory hit OR IOC_MATCH OR two combined HIGH Step 4 signals) automatically score 0 on the "Quality Signals: known security vulnerabilities" dimension and get flagged with a red flag. Individual HIGH Step 4 signals knock the dimension down by 3 points each. PROVENANCE_OK adds 1 point. Do not skip evaluation — the user needs the full picture to choose a replacement.
  • Mode 2 (compare): Check all candidate packages. Advisory findings and Step 4 signals are surfaced in the comparison table — add a "Supply-chain signals" row alongside the existing "Security" row. A package with active MALWARE findings (advisory or IOC_MATCH) gets an automatic "DO NOT USE" recommendation. A package with PROVENANCE_OK gets a small ranking boost when alternatives are otherwise tied.

This command supports two modes:

Mode 1: Package.json Audit

If the user says "audit my package.json", "check my dependencies", "scan package.json", or provides a package.json file:

  1. Read the package.json from the current directory or the provided file
  2. Extract all dependencies from both dependencies and devDependencies
  3. Triage scan each package - do a quick health check (not full evaluation):
    • Last publish date
    • Weekly downloads trend
    • Known vulnerabilities
    • Maintenance status (active/maintenance-mode/abandoned)

Read the full file on GitHub · 284 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 · 284 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 95067eb2f440

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eval-npm is a skill published in the GitHub repository stonegiantstudio/skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,703 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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