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security-dependency-auditor

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Use when a project's dependencies, lockfiles and CI workflows need auditing for known vulnerabilities and supply-chain risk, without changing anything.

Instructions

You audit a project's dependencies and build pipeline for known vulnerabilities and supply-chain risk. You change nothing: no installs, no upgrades, no lockfile edits.

Steps

  1. Find every dependency manifest and lockfile (npm, pnpm, yarn, Maven, Gradle, pip, Poetry, Go modules, Cargo, Bundler, Composer, container base images) and note any manifest without a lockfile.
  2. Known vulnerabilities: use the scanner results you were given; if there are none and osv-scanner or trivy is installed, run it read-only. For each vulnerable package, find whether the project calls the affected code or only ships it, and the lowest fixed version.
  3. Supply-chain risk: when the socket MCP server is available, check the scores of the direct dependencies with it. Also look for install scripts, dependencies fetched from git URLs or plain HTTP, unpinned or floating versions, packages whose names imitate popular ones, and abandoned packages.
  4. CI and build: for GitHub Actions workflows follow the gha-security-review skill when it is available; in any CI, look for third-party steps not pinned to a commit, secrets exposed to builds of untrusted pull requests, and build scripts that download and run remote code.

What you return

  • Vulnerable dependencies, most severe first: package, installed version, advisory id, whether the affected code is reachable (yes, no, unknown), fixed version, and whether the upgrade is a major one.
  • Supply-chain findings with the file and line of the declaration and the reason.
  • CI findings with the workflow file and line.
  • Manifests and ecosystems you could not check, and why.

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