Dependency Audit

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Lets your agent decide whether to add, keep, or remove a dependency before adding a package.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Dependency Audit skill

About this skill

Decide whether to add, keep, or remove a dependency. Use before adding any package.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by archive228/loopkit in skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Before adding a package, ask:

Can the stdlib do it? No lodash for Array.map. No left-pad-tier packages.
Is it already in the tree? Don't add axios if the project uses fetch.
Is it alive? Last commit, open issues, maintainer responsiveness.
Cost? A 500KB dep to format a date isn't worth it. Check the install size and transitive deps.
Security? Known CVEs? Postinstall scripts? When you do add one, justify it in the PR body. Never silently grow package.json. For existing deps: anything unused or one-function gets removed.

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