What is dependabot-consolidator?

A guide for batching open Dependabot pull requests into a single tested change or splitting them by risk. Dependabot is GitHub's automated dependency-update service.

Use it to collect and classify Dependabot updates, group them by ecosystem and risk, choose a consolidation strategy, run validation checks, and close out the work after approval.

It helps prevent unrelated human pull requests from being included and makes major dependency upgrades easier to identify and review. It also defines checks for comparing the combined branch with the main branch.

dependabot-consolidator — Skill for Claude Code by vinnie357

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 vinnie357/claude-skills --skill dependabot-consolidator

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vinnie357/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 5 agents.

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.

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.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,580 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 pass 7 Sept 2026

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00085	$0.01580
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00632
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00316
Haiku 4.5	$0.00009	$0.00158

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 22c54c56e923, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependabot-consolidator 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 1mo 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/tools/github/skills/dependabot-consolidator/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependabot Consolidator

Codifies the recipe proven on kina PR #36: collect open Dependabot PRs, consolidate into one tested branch and PR, verify with baseline-diff gates, and close out on operator approval. Single-repo, operator-supervised scope.

Scope: Dependabot only

List open Dependabot PRs with:

gh pr list --author "app/dependabot" --state open \
  --json number,title,headRefName,files

Warning: never touch human-authored PRs in the same pass. The --author app/dependabot filter is the guard; verify it returns only bot-authored entries before proceeding.

Decide grouping: ecosystem and risk

Classify each PR as config-only Actions or code/package bump before creating the branch. Decision: consolidate-all vs split-actions-from-code.

Config-only Actions bumps (.github/workflows/*.yml only): validated authoritatively by real GitHub CI running on the pushed branch. Low risk; consolidate freely.
Language/package bumps (Cargo.toml, package.json, go.mod, etc.): breaking MAJORs may need local compile, test, and code changes. Higher risk; consider splitting from Actions bumps if any contain MAJOR version changes.

See references/group-by-risk.md for the full ecosystem × risk taxonomy.

Consolidation procedure

Create branch and cherry-pick each Dependabot PR head in order:

git fetch origin
git checkout -b chore/consolidate-dependabot origin/main

For each PR (ordered low-risk first, MAJOR bumps last):

git cherry-pick <pr-head-sha>

Conflict rule — keep every bump: Dependabot PRs each target a distinct dependency. When cherry-pick conflicts arise, keep both sides (each bump targets a different line/package). Do not drop either side.

Pin-style preservation: Dependabot updates pins in two styles — @v4 major tag and full commit SHA with a # vX.Y.Z trailing comment. Read the file before cherry-picking to know which style applies; preserve that style after merge.

Lockfile handling: Before assuming a lockfile needs a manual update, run git check-ignore <lockfile>. If the lockfile is tracked, commit the updated version. For Cargo: cargo update -p <dep> for the specific crate only — do not run a global cargo update.

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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.

1mo ago Changed · +3 lines 22c54c56e923
1mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 5a0c37f41620

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependabot-consolidator is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinnie357/claude-skills (27 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,580 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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