git:20260228.ab97b2b to v1.0.0

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name: dependency-check

description: "Audit dependencies for updates and vulnerabilities"

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# Dependency Check

## Purpose

Audit dependencies for updates and vulnerabilities

## Routing

- Use when: Use when requested to inspect dependency freshness, vulnerabilities, or deprecated packages.

- Do not use when: Don't use for single-file code changes without project dependency context.

- Outputs: Dependency audit table with stale versions, risk flags, and safe upgrade notes.

- Success criteria: Identifies package manager, flags vulnerability and deprecation signals, and gives practical upgrade sequencing.

## Trigger Examples

### Positive

- Use the dependency-check skill for this request.

- Help me with dependency check.

- Use when requested to inspect dependency freshness, vulnerabilities, or deprecated packages.

- Dependency Check: provide an actionable result.

### Negative

- Don't use for single-file code changes without project dependency context.

- Do not use dependency-check for unrelated requests.

- This request is outside dependency check scope.

- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

## Runtime Prompt

- Current runtime prompt length: 501 characters.

- Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../dependency-check.json`.