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Ghost Scan Deps

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ghostsecurity·vlatest·devops·Apache-2.0

This tool scans project dependencies for vulnerable or outdated packages, helping developers proactively identify and mitigate security risks.

Repository

Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add ghostsecurity/skills --skill ghost-scan-deps -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

ghostsecurity

Taken from the source listing. We haven't verified who controls this account.

Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill failed 1 of 6 checks. A failure is not proof of bad intent; it means something in the code needs a human to look at it before you run it.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: failed

    Runs code fetched at install time in 1 place.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

    What it found

    • plugins/ghost/skills/scan-deps/agents/init/agent.md:16remote script piped into a shell
      curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ghostsecurity/wraith/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Only contacts known or declared hosts: raw.githubusercontent.com.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

    Hosts contacted

    raw.githubusercontent.comsource host

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned ghostsecurity/skills at 6ea8e3ba66.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
6ea8e3ba66
Manifest
plugins/ghost/skills/scan-deps/SKILL.md
Scanned
10 files, 1,831 lines
This is a static scan, not a review. It reads the skill's files; it does not run them, and it cannot tell you whether the skill is any good or whether the code does what its description says. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent.
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About this skill

What it does

This skill, Ghost Scan Deps, performs Software Composition Analysis (SCA) scanning of project dependencies to identify vulnerable or outdated packages. It orchestrates a series of sub-agents to automate this process, including initializing a tool called Wraith, discovering dependency lockfiles within the repository, and generating a final scan report detailing potential security risks. The skill focuses on identifying exploitable vulnerabilities in project dependencies.

When to use it

  • When onboarding a new project and needing an initial security assessment of its dependencies.
  • As part of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to proactively identify vulnerabilities during development.
  • During code reviews to ensure developers are aware of potential dependency-related risks.
  • To quickly assess the security posture of existing projects with known or suspected dependency issues.

Key capabilities

  • Wraith Initialization: Installs and configures the Wraith binary for vulnerability scanning.
  • Lockfile Discovery: Automatically identifies all relevant dependency lockfiles (e.g., go.mod, package-lock.json).
  • Vulnerability Scanning: Runs Wraith against each discovered lockfile to identify known vulnerabilities.
  • Exploitability Assessment: Analyzes identified candidates to determine their exploitability.
  • Report Generation: Creates a summary report detailing the scan findings.

Example prompts

  • "Run a security scan on this project."
  • "Scan dependencies for known vulnerabilities and provide a detailed report."
  • "Perform an SCA scan of the repository at the current working directory."

Tips & gotchas

  • The skill requires Git to determine short commit hashes; if run outside of a Git repository, it falls back to using the date as a substitute.
  • The initial setup step involves computing and storing several variables (scan_dir, cache_dir, skill_dir) which are essential for subsequent steps. Ensure these values are correctly stored and available to the agent.
  • This skill is an orchestrator; it relies on sub-agents and does not perform any of the core scanning work itself.