dependabot-review

dependabot-review is a skill for Claude Code from ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents. It costs 89 tokens per session (3,715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for Dependabot pull requests, which are proposed updates to the software packages a project uses. It examines gem upgrades and their effect on the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing one Dependabot pull request or auditing all open dependency updates. It helps identify affected code, possible breakages, required fixes, and safe merges.
Why use it?
It helps you judge whether a dependency update could break existing code before merging it. It also explains what changed and whether the update appears ready to merge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Reviewing one Dependabot pull request or auditing all open dependency updates. It helps identify affected code, possible breakages, required fixes, and safe merges.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thibautbaissac/rails_ai_agents/dependabot-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 ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents --skill dependabot-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,715 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 243
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 261
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 9
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00089 $0.03715
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01858
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00743
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00371

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8c032b436c4c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot-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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/dependabot-review/SKILL.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot Gem Upgrade Review

Current repo: !gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner 2>/dev/null || echo "(unknown — run from inside the repo)"

Review Dependabot PRs and give the developer a concise, scannable verdict: what changed upstream, what could break (and how to fix it), what each gem touches in the codebase, and whether to merge.

Trigger phrases for audit mode: "review all open dependabot PRs", "which dependabot PRs are ready to merge", "audit our dep upgrades", "go through the open dep PRs", "check dependabot", any request for a status/report on pending dependency updates. Trigger single-PR mode on any GitHub PR URL related to dependabot, gem upgrades, or "bump" in the title. If the intent is ambiguous, default to audit mode.

Choosing a mode

Pick the mode based on what the user asked for:

  • Single-PR mode — the user pasted a specific Dependabot PR URL or otherwise referenced one PR. Run the single-PR workflow below.
  • Audit mode — the user asked about all open Dependabot PRs (phrases like "audit our deps", "review open dependabot PRs", "which dep upgrades are safe to merge"). Run the audit workflow. Do not ask the user to paste URLs — discover them with gh.

If the intent is ambiguous (e.g., "review dependabot"), default to audit mode since it's the superset and shows what's available.

Audit workflow (multiple PRs)

Step A1: Discover open Dependabot PRs

Determine the repo from the current working directory (gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner). Then list open Dependabot PRs:

gh pr list --author "app/dependabot" --state open \
  --json number,title,url,createdAt,headRefName,labels \
  --limit 50

The app/ prefix in the author filter is required — Dependabot authors as the bot account app/dependabot. If gh returns an empty list, tell the user "No open Dependabot PRs in ." and stop.

Before diving into analysis, surface the scope to the user in one line: "Found N open Dependabot PRs. Analyzing each now…" — this sets expectations when there are many to crunch through.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 12d ago First seen · 272 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8c032b436c4c

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dependabot-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ThibautBaissac/rails_ai_agents (661 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,715 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 2026-08-30.