dependency-review SKILL.md skillA
dependency-review from yarlson/yarstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/dependency-review@git:20261017.2f2e03bPins git:20261017.2f2e03b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yarlson/yarstack
- Path
plugins/yarstack/skills/dependency-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261017.2f2e03b, committed Oct 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 2,558 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Review dependency necessity, identity, provenance, and reproducibility without modifying them. Use when manifests, lockfiles, vendor state, generated dependency state, registries, fetched tools, or version pins change.
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 Review Show that each changed dependency is needed, is the intended project, and resolves the same way on every build. ## Workflow 1. Identify the changed dependency surface, the comparison target, the repository's pinning policy, and its usual update path. 2. For each added, removed, or changed dependency or tool, name its consumer and the current need. A dependency that a few lines of code or an existing dependency could replace is a finding. 3. Confirm the identity of each new package: the exact name matches the intended project, its source repository and publisher are the expected ones, and it is not a near-miss of a popular name. Code models invent plausible package names, so a name that appears in no registry, or that a different publisher owns, is a blocking finding. 4. Check maintenance and license: the project is not archived or deprecated, and its license is compatible with the repository's license and policy. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yarlson/yarstack/dependency-review@sha256:3c839bee2c2dcb5dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261017.2f2e03b, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tzecm223wqaesdty)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 17, 2026 and Oct 17, 2026, about one every 46 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261017.2f2e03b latest | 2026-10-17 | 2f2e03b | 2,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.42bcc8e | 2026-07-18 | 42bcc8e | 1,724 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260717.dc9a72d | 2026-07-17 | dc9a72d | 1,450 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2558 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
yarlson/yarstack · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tzecm223wqaesdty GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yarlson/yarstack/dependency-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3c839bee2c2dcb5d890ca2d1b4fde6a3744a488d4cc78e3d59e71038d24bc72f
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