# Audit Project Dependencies and Plan Secure Updates

Dependency risks are difficult to prioritize across vulnerabilities, licenses, maintenance, and supply chain signals. This skill organizes evidence and produces practical remediation and monitoring plans.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add sickn33/dependency-management-deps-audit
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: sickn33-dependency-management-deps-audit
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: missing
- Tree hash: 672f26ef464b3eed48fa0e99c3dcec0150a5fb6b18f248ab62bf8c1d7a1fb0ae
- Author: sickn33
- GitHub username: sickn33
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills/tree/main/skills/dependency-management-deps-audit
- Ref: f9e2c34b4f19c7f3e6b0a1e93227b5f77cc12526
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: external\_commands, network, filesystem
- Quality score: 50
- Quality tier: warning
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/sickn33-dependency-management-deps-audit
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/sickn33-dependency-management-deps-audit/manifest

## Capabilities

- Guides inventory of direct and transitive dependencies from common package manifests and lockfiles.
- Checks packages against vulnerability sources and prioritizes findings by severity, exploit signals, and runtime exposure.
- Reviews dependency licenses for compatibility, restrictions, unknown terms, and required legal review.
- Ranks outdated packages by update type, age, security value, and estimated effort.
- Highlights typosquatting, maintainer changes, suspicious package behavior, and bundle size impact.
- Provides report, remediation, pull request, and CI monitoring templates for dependency work.

## Use Cases

- Secure a Release: Assess release dependencies, prioritize exploitable vulnerabilities, and define tested upgrade gates before deployment.
- Plan a Maintenance Backlog: Rank outdated direct and transitive packages by security value, compatibility risk, age, and update effort.
- Review License Exposure: Identify restrictive, incompatible, or unknown dependency licenses and prepare evidence for qualified legal review.

## Prompt Templates

### Inventory Dependencies

```
Review this repository's dependency manifests. List direct and transitive dependencies by ecosystem, and identify missing lockfiles or unsupported formats.
```

### Prioritize Vulnerabilities

```
Audit the identified dependencies for known vulnerabilities. Rank findings by severity and exposure, then recommend the smallest safe upgrade for each issue.
```

### Review Licenses and Supply Chain

```
Assess dependency licenses and supply chain signals for this project. Flag incompatible, unknown, suspicious, or abandoned packages with evidence and replacement options.
```

### Design a Staged Remediation Plan

```
Create a staged remediation plan for these audit findings. Include compatibility risks, test gates, rollback steps, pull request groups, and continuous monitoring.
```

## Limitations

- The skill provides guidance and sample implementations, not a complete built-in scanner.
- Several playbook functions are illustrative and require project-specific implementation, credentials, error handling, and testing.
- Vulnerability and version results depend on current external data and available audit tools.
- License compatibility guidance is simplified and does not replace qualified legal review.

## Best Practices

- Provide lockfiles, the project license, runtime exposure, and current scanner output before requesting analysis.
- Confirm advisory data with authoritative scanners and package registries before approving remediation.
- Apply upgrades in small reviewed groups with isolated branches, test gates, and complete rollback plans.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not run forced upgrades across the repository without approval, compatibility review, and a clean rollback point.
- Do not treat package age or name similarity as proof of vulnerability or malicious behavior.
- Do not publish private package names, versions, or vulnerability details to external services without consent.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-07-23T21:53:36.86\+00:00
- Summary: Static detections mostly reflect benign Markdown, JavaScript templates, fixed shell expressions, and expected registry access in documentation. One low-severity network finding remains because Bundlephobia receives package names and versions. Semantic review found unsafe force-upgrade rollback guidance and unpinned CI tooling, with no malicious intent or prompt injection.

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