dependency-confusion

dependency-confusion is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SurrealSky/hack_skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,647 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A security-testing guide for dependency confusion, an attack where a package manager installs a malicious public package instead of an internal one.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports reviewing npm, pip, gem, Maven, Composer, and Docker manifests, plus authorised supply-chain security exercises.
Why use it?
It helps find package names that could be hijacked and lead to malicious code running during installation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It supports reviewing npm, pip, gem, Maven, Composer, and Docker manifests, plus authorised supply-chain security exercises.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surrealsky/hack_skills/dependency-confusion
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 SurrealSky/hack_skills --skill dependency-confusion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SurrealSky/hack_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for dependency-confusion

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for dependency-confusion

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,647 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00056 $0.02647
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01324
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00265

Measured today against content hash 9d996f4697ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-confusion scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

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

# curl "https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:com.example+AND+a:internal-lib&rows=1&wt=json"
skills/dependency-confusion/SKILL.md · 184 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. today Changed · +5 lines 9d996f4697ae
  2. 9d ago First seen · 179 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 7a5a62442b1a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependency-confusion is a skill published in the GitHub repository SurrealSky/hack_skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,647 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (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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