Assesses what a project depends on — known vulnerabilities, licence obligations, abandoned packages, and supply chain risk. Use this whenever the user asks what their dependencies look like, mentions a CVE or security advisory, needs a licence review, is evaluating whether to adopt a library, or has a dependency tree nobody has looked at in years. For performing the upgrades this identifies, use dependency-upgrade.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Dependency audit
Most of the code shipping in a typical application was written by strangers. An audit answers
three questions about that code: is it *dangerous*, is it *legal*, and is it *maintained*.
Scanners answer the first well. The second and third need judgement, and they are where the
expensive surprises live — a licence discovered at acquisition, a critical library abandoned
three years ago.
## 1. See the whole tree, not the manifest
Your manifest lists what you asked for. The lockfile lists what you got, and it is usually five
to twenty times larger.
```bash
npm ls --all | wc -l # or: pip list, go list -m all, cargo tree
```
Transitive dependencies are where most risk sits, because nobody chose them. Note the depth and
the total count — a project with 1,400 packages has a different risk profile from one with 40,
whatever the direct list looks like.
**Done when:** you are working from the resolved tree, not the manifest.
## 2. Run the scanners, then triage the output
```bash
npm audit --json # pip-audit, govulncheck, cargo audit, osv-scanner
```
Scanner output is not a finding list; it is a starting list. Triage each:
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.866dec6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5055 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag
Source
GitHub
okhp3/skillz · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
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