adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability

adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability is a skill for Claude Code from UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills. It costs 122 tokens per session (1,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for deciding whether a reported CVE—a publicly documented software vulnerability—can actually affect your application through a dependency. It follows the vulnerable function, its trigger conditions, and the input that reaches it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a software-composition scanner, dependency bot, or security advisory flags a library, especially when you need evidence for a patch decision or a documented “not affected” finding.
Why use it?
It separates real exposure from noisy dependency-scanner alerts, so teams can prioritize urgent fixes and explain why a vulnerability does or does not affect them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the security-agent-skills plugin — 194 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when a software-composition scanner, dependency bot, or security advisory flags a library, especially when you need evidence for a patch decision or a documented “not affected” finding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills --skill adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install security-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 194 skills.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,538 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 $0.00122 $0.01538
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.00769
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00154

Measured 11d ago against content hash 09cfb95db903, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability 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.

skills/adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adjudicating dependency-CVE reachability: affected, or just noisy?

A scanner that lists every CVE in your dependency tree is measuring your package.json, not your exposure. Most flagged CVEs are unreachable: you never call the vulnerable function, or you call it in a way the bug does not trigger, or no attacker-controlled input gets there. Adjudicating reachability turns a wall of red into the short list that actually matters, and gives you a defensible reason for each one you set aside.

When to use

  • An SCA tool, dependency bot, or advisory flagged a CVE in a library you use.
  • You are drowning in "critical" dependency alerts and need to triage by exposure.
  • You must justify a "not affected" status (for an auditor, a VEX statement, a customer) with evidence, not a guess.
  • You are deciding whether an urgent patch is actually urgent for you.

Scope check

Authorized source only (your own application and the dependencies it ships). If you can't name the authorization, stop.

The loop

  1. Pin the vulnerable symbol. From the advisory and, crucially, the fix commit, identify the exact vulnerable function(s) or sink in the dependency and the affected version range. "The library is vulnerable" is not actionable; "parse_untrusted() before v2.3 is vulnerable when called with X" is. Reading the patch tells you precisely what is unsafe and under what condition.

  2. Test call-path reachability. Does any path from your own entry points reach that vulnerable function, directly or transitively? If nothing in your code (or the code you actually invoke) calls it, you are not reachable through the static graph. Record that, but note the blind spots below before you call it clean.

  3. Check the trigger preconditions. Reaching the function is not enough. The CVE usually needs a specific argument shape, a config flag enabled, a feature in use, or a size or option the safe callers never pass. Confirm whether your call sites actually satisfy the condition the fix now rejects. Many "reachable" CVEs die here because you always call the safe overload or pass the safe flag.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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. 11d ago First seen · 123 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 09cfb95db903

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adjudicating-dependency-cve-reachability is a skill published in the GitHub repository UnboundCompute/security-agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 1,538 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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