openworker/coworker/personas/builtin/dep-audit/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md

name, description

name	description
dependency-audit	Scan lockfiles for vulnerable dependencies and triage by real reachability

Audit the project's dependencies and separate what's exploitable from what's noise.

1. Identify the ecosystems present (package-lock.json / pnpm-lock.yaml / yarn.lock, requirements*.txt / uv.lock / poetry.lock, go.sum, Cargo.lock, pyproject).
2. Pick scanners that are present (check first; ask before installing):
   • osv-scanner --lockfile <each lockfile> --format json (best cross-ecosystem)
   • npm audit --json / pip-audit -f json / trivy fs --scanners vuln . -f json
3. Deduplicate advisories across scanners (key on advisory id + package), then triage each one by reading the code:
   • Direct or transitive? (npm ls <pkg>, pipdeptree -r -p <pkg> or grep imports)
   • Is the vulnerable functionality actually used here? Grep for the affected API; an unreachable advisory in a dev-only tool is LOW no matter its CVSS.
   • Verdict per advisory: fix-now / fix-soon / accept-with-note, one line of why.
4. Map each fix-now to its smallest closing upgrade (advisory metadata's fixed-in version); note when only a major closes it and what the migration entails.
5. Deliver: an audit table (advisory · package · direct? · reachable? · verdict · smallest fix) ordered by real priority — then hand off to safe-upgrade-pr for the actual upgrades. Offer a CI guard (e.g. an osv-scanner step) so new advisories surface on PRs instead of in the next audit.