Awesome Dependency Audit

Q: What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Awesome Dependency Audit skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Awesome Dependency Audit is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at https://claudskills.com/learn/what-is-skill-md/.

Category: Security · Sub-category: forensics · Last updated: 2026-08-09

type:audit type:review

Read-only audit of a project's third-party dependencies — lockfile discipline, hallucinated and typosquatted package names (slopsquatting), dependency confusion, install-script exposure, maintenance and provenance, license conflicts, and CVE reachability — producing evidence-backed findings and a SHIP / FIX / BLOCK verdict. Use when the user asks to 'audit dependencies', 'check the supply chain', 'is this package safe', 'проверь зависимости', to review a package.json/requirements/go.mod change, before adding a dependency, or after a bot PR bumps versions. Do not use for vulnerabilities in the project's own source code (use awesome-security-audit), for CI workflow hardening (its CI/CD category covers that), or to execute the upgrades the audit calls for — use awesome-dependency-upgrade; this skill audits the dependency graph itself.

Security AStatic scan found no risk patternsHow grading works ›

From the source SKILL.md

Audit the third-party dependency graph — manifests, lockfiles, and the packages they resolve to — for supply-chain risk, before it ships with the product. Read-only: it reports findings and a verdict; it does not upgrade, pin, or remove anything. Hand the report to awesome-dependency-upgrade to act on.

What this skill does

Awesome Dependency Audit is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the forensics sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when the user asks to 'audit dependencies', 'check the supply chain', 'is this package safe', 'проверь зависимости', to review a package.json/requirements/go.

Who uses this skill

The Awesome Dependency Audit Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 191,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\awesome-dependency-audit\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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One-click install via the desktop app

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Awesome Dependency Audit Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.

What does the Awesome Dependency Audit skill do?

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

When should I use the Awesome Dependency Audit skill?

Use Awesome Dependency Audit when your Claude Code task falls under the Security category — specifically in the forensics area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Awesome Dependency Audit" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/security/.

What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Awesome Dependency Audit skill fit in?

A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Awesome Dependency Audit is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/khasky/awesome-agent-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: khasky

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

khasky. (2026). Awesome Dependency Audit [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/

BibTeX

@misc{awesome-dependency-audit-2026,
  author    = {khasky},
  title     = {Awesome Dependency Audit [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/awesome-dependency-audit/}
}

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Security scan

Grade A · scanned 2026-08-26 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.

The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (execution), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.

✓ Prompt injection
✓ Data exfiltration
✓ Supply chain
✓ Reverse shell
✓ Credentials
⚠ Execution
✓ Filesystem
✓ Persistence
✓ Obfuscation
✓ Network

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