What problem does it solve?
Manually tracking dependency vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, outdated packages, and supply chain risks across multi-language projects is time-consuming and prone to human error, leaving applications exposed to security threats and legal liabilities.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Multi-Language Dependency Inventory: Automatically catalog direct and transitive dependencies for Python, Node.js, Rust, Go, Java, Ruby, and PHP projects.
- Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanning: Integrate with industry-standard tools like pip-audit, npm audit, grype, and trivy to identify known security flaws with severity ratings.
- License Compliance Checking: Detect restrictive or copyleft licenses (e.g., GPL, AGPL) that pose legal risks for commercial products, and generate full license reports.
- Freshness & Bloat Analysis: Identify severely outdated, unmaintained, or unused dependencies to reduce attack surface and improve project maintainability.
- Use Case: A development team maintaining a microservices architecture can use this skill to run consistent, repeatable dependency audits across all services, prioritize critical vulnerability remediation, and ensure license compliance before release.
Quick Start
Use the dependency-audit skill to run a full security and compliance audit of all dependencies in the current project directory and receive a prioritized report of findings.
