Check npm

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user invokes /check-npm
• Asks to audit package manager security
• Lifecycle scripts
• Git dependencies

Example prompts

• “/check-npm”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Detect package manager
2. 2Tool version
3. 3Lifecycle scripts disabled
4. 4Unsafe dependency protocols
5. 5Minimum release age ≥ 3 days
6. 6Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1ccacf2. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • jq
  • npm
  • yarn
  • pnpm

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm, yarn and pnpm, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Check npm loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 362 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~116

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.3k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~2.7k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:48

  grep -E '^ignore-scripts=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:55

  | npm | `.npmrc` has `ignore-scripts=true` | missing or `false` |

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:58

  | pnpm 10 | `.npmrc` `ignore-scripts=true` OR `strictDepBuilds: true` | neither |

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:60

  pnpm 11+ ignores script settings in `.npmrc` and `package.json#pnpm`. pnpm 10 / yarn edge cases: [references/managers.md

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:67

  grep -E '^allow-git=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:92

  grep -E '^min(imum)?-release-age=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null

• WarningMentions a credentials file (SSH keys, cloud or package-manager tokens)SKILL.md:121

  # npm — .npmrc

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from grafana/skills at commit 1ccacf2, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© grafana). 362 words, ~1,295 tokens.

name

check-npm

description

Audit a JavaScript/TypeScript repo's npm, yarn, or pnpm configuration for supply-chain hardening: tool version, lifecycle scripts, unsafe dependency protocols, and minimum release age ≥3 days. Use when the user invokes /check-npm or asks to audit package manager security, lifecycle scripts, git dependencies, ignore-scripts, min-release-age, allow-git, approvedGitRepositories, strictDepBuilds, or blockExoticSubdeps in a Grafana plugin or JS/TS project.

license

Apache-2.0

disable-model-invocation

false

test -f package.json || { echo "STOP: no package.json at workspace root"; exit 1; }
jq -r '.packageManager // "unset"' package.json
ls -1 yarn.lock package-lock.json pnpm-lock.yaml 2>/dev/null || true

npm --version    # required ≥ 11.15.0
yarn --version   # required ≥ 4.14.0
pnpm --version   # required ≥ 11.0.0

grep -E '^ignore-scripts=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'enableScripts:' .yarnrc.yml 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'strictDepBuilds:|dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds:|allowBuilds:' pnpm-workspace.yaml 2>/dev/null

grep -E '^allow-git=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'approvedGitRepositories:' .yarnrc.yml 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'blockExoticSubdeps:' pnpm-workspace.yaml 2>/dev/null

find . -name package.json -not -path '*/node_modules/*'

grep -E '^min(imum)?-release-age=' .npmrc 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'npmMinimalAgeGate:' .yarnrc.yml 2>/dev/null
grep -E 'minimumReleaseAge:|minimumReleaseAgeStrict:' pnpm-workspace.yaml 2>/dev/null

# npm — .npmrc
ignore-scripts=true
allow-git=none
min-release-age=3

# pnpm 11 — pnpm-workspace.yaml
strictDepBuilds: true
dangerouslyAllowAllBuilds: false
allowBuilds: []
minimumReleaseAge: 4320
blockExoticSubdeps: true

# yarn — .yarnrc.yml
npmMinimalAgeGate: 4320

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Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/grafana-plugins/check-npm of grafana/skills.

• SKILL.md
• references/fix-snippets.md
• references/managers.md
• references/protocols.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1ccacf2