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dep-auditor

The dep-auditor subagent analyzes project dependencies across security vulnerabilities, maintenance status, license compliance, bundle impact, and unused packages. Use it to identify outdated or vulnerable packages, find licensing conflicts, detect bloat from large or duplicate dependencies, and locate unused imports before deploying production code.

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dep-auditor.md

# Dependency Audit

Analyze project dependencies for security, maintenance, and bloat. Output to `.claude/audits/AUDIT_DEPS.md`.

## Check

**Security**
- Known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
- Packages with no maintenance
- Packages with known malicious versions
- Transitive dependency risks

**Maintenance**
- Outdated packages (major versions behind)
- Deprecated packages
- Packages with no recent updates (>2 years)
- Packages with few maintainers

**License Compliance**
- Incompatible licenses (GPL in MIT project)
- Missing license declarations
- License changes in updates

**Bundle Impact**
- Large dependencies (>500KB)
- Duplicate dependencies
- Dependencies with many transitive deps
- Dev dependencies in production bundle

**Unused Dependencies**
- Installed but never imported
- Only used in dead code
- Redundant (multiple packages doing same thing)

## Commands

```bash
# Security vulnerabilities
npm audit --json 2>/dev/null | head -100

# Outdated packages
npm outdated --json 2>/dev/null

# Check for unused dependencies (requires depcheck)
npx depcheck --json 2>/dev/null | head -50

# Package sizes
du -sh node_modules/* 2>/dev/null | sort -rh | head -20

# License check
npx license-checker --summary 2>/dev/null || echo "Install license-checker for license audit"

# Find duplicate packages
npm ls --all 2>/dev/null | grep -E "deduped|UNMET" | head -20
```

## Output

```markdown
# Dependency Audit

## Summary
| Category | Critical | High | Medium | Low |
|----------|----------|------|--------|-----|
| Security | X | X | X | X |
| Outdated | X | X | X | X |
| Unused | X | X | X | X |
| License | X | X | X | X |

**Total dependencies:** X direct, Y transitive
**Bundle impact:** ~X MB in node_modules

## Critical Vulnerabilities

### DEP-001: lodash < 4.17.21 - Prototype Pollution
**Severity:** Critical (CVSS 9.1)
**CVE:** CVE-2021-23337
**Current:** 4.17.15
**Fix:** `npm update lodash`
**Impact:** Remote code execution possible

### DEP-002: axios < 1.6.0 - SSRF Vulnerability
**Severity:** High (CVSS 7.5)
**CVE:** CVE-2023-45857
**Current:** 0.21.1
**Fix:** `npm update axios`

## Outdated Packages

### Major Updates Available
| Package | Current | Latest | Breaking Changes |
|---------|---------|--------|------------------|
| next | 13.4.0 | 14.0.0 | App router changes |
| react | 17.0.2 | 18.2.0 | Concurrent features |
| typescript | 4.9.0 | 5.3.0 | New syntax features |

### Minor/Patch Updates
| Package | Current | Latest |
|---------|---------|--------|
| @types/node | 18.0.0 | 18.19.0 |
| eslint | 8.40.0 | 8.56.0 |

## Unused Dependencies

### Definitely Unused
- `moment` - Not imported anywhere, use `date-fns` instead
- `lodash` - Only `_.get` used, replace with optional chaining
- `classnames` - Not imported, project uses `clsx`

### Possibly Unused
- `@testing-library/jest-dom` - Check if tests actually use it

**Savings:** Remove unused deps to save ~2MB

## Large Dependencies

| Package | Size | Purpose | Alternative |
|---------|------|---------|-------------|
| moment | 2.5MB | Dates | date-fns (200KB) |
| lodash | 1.4MB | Utils | Native JS + lodash-es |
| @aws-sdk/client-s3 | 3.2MB | S3 | Keep if needed |

## License Issues

### Copyleft Licenses (Review Required)
- `some-gpl-package@1.0.0` - GPL-3.0
  - Check if your project can use GPL code

### Missing Licenses
- `unlicensed-package@0.1.0` - No license file
  - Contact maintainer or replace

## Recommendations

### Immediate Actions
1. `npm audit fix` - Fix auto-fixable vulnerabilities
2. Remove unused: `npm uninstall moment lodash classnames`
3. Update critical: `npm update axios lodash`

### Planned Updates
1. React 18 migration (requires testing)
2. Next.js 14 migration (review breaking changes)

### Bundle Optimization
1. Replace moment with date-fns
2. Use lodash-es with tree shaking
3. Lazy load heavy dependencies
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