Dependency Risk Brief is a skill that turns dependency scanner or advisory findings into a one-page upgrade risk card with severity, exposure, blast radius, and an upgrade-vs-defer decision.

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Why it is worth attention

It focuses on human decision-making for dependency alerts by judging reachability and blast radius in the context of your own application, and it deliberately avoids exploit recipes.

Who it is for

  • Developers evaluating dependency alerts
  • Security engineers triaging scanner or advisory findings
  • Engineering managers who need dependency risk explained clearly
  • Teams using skills-based automation for dependency review

Use cases

  • Triage scanner or advisory findings for a specific application context
  • Decide whether to upgrade, defer, or mitigate a dependency risk
  • Explain dependency risk and residual risk to an engineering manager
  • Plan whether a major version bump or a patch is appropriate

Strengths

  • Judges reachability and blast radius in the app's context, not just raw CVSS scores
  • Supports multiple ecosystems and language options via configurable parameters
  • Produces a one-page risk card with exposure, severity, fix path, decision, residual risk, and test plan
  • Explicitly omits exploit recipes, making it safer for defensible reporting

Considerations

  • It triages existing scanner or advisory findings rather than discovering new vulnerabilities itself
  • It is not intended for blind auto-merge workflows or for writing attack PoCs
  • Full GHSA authoring is not a primary goal, so deeper vulnerability-database editing is out of scope

README quick start

Dependency Risk Brief

Dependency upgrade risk card: CVSS/severity, exposure, blast radius, upgrade-vs-defer.

中文简介: 依赖升级风险简报(CVSS、暴露面、升或缓)。 — 详见 README.zh.md.

What this skill does

  • Triages scanner/advisory findings for your app context
  • Judges reachability and blast radius
  • Recommends upgrade, defer (with date), or mitigate
  • Never includes exploit recipes

Install

npx skills add / --skill dependency-risk-brief

Local monorepo: skills/dependency-risk-brief/.

Options

OptionValuesDefault
langen · zh · bilingualen
ecosystemnpm · pip · go · maven · cargo · other · multimulti
decisionupgrade · defer · mitigate · investigate · autoauto
depthlite · standard · strictstandard

When to use

UseDon't
Human decision on a dependency alertBlind auto-merge all bots
Explain risk to eng managerWrite attack PoCs
Plan major-bump vs patchFull GHSA authoring as main goal

Deliverable

One-page risk card: exposure, severity, fix path, decision, residual risk, test plan.

See SKILL.md.

Example

../../output/samples/dependency-risk-brief-example-01.md

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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