dependabot

Comprehensive guide for configuring and managing GitHub Dependabot. Use this skill when users ask about creating or optimizing dependabot.yml files, managing Dependabot pull requests, configuring dependency update strategies, setting up grouped updates, monorepo patterns, multi-ecosystem groups, security update configuration, auto-triage rules, or any GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) supply chain security topic related to Dependabot. For pre-commit dependency vulnerability scanning in AI coding agents via the GitHub MCP Server, this skill references the Advanced Security plugin (`advanced-security@copilot-plugins`). Use this skill when an agent needs to scan dependencies for known vulnerabilities before committing.

Agent Skill from github/awesome-copilot

Copilot Studio

Passes documented load rules

No documented load rule failed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Preview, Frontier tenants only

Passes documented load rules

No documented load rule failed.

An agent can have at most 8 skills. Custom skills aren't available in tenants that use Microsoft Purview Information Barriers.

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Standards signals

Meets the agentskills.io required fields.

Frontmatter	Present and parsed Spec: frontmatter
name	Meets the spec (1-64 chars, a-z 0-9 hyphens) Spec: name
description	Present, 1-1,024 characters Spec: description
compatibility	Absent or under 500 characters Spec: compatibility
Name matches folder	Yes (`dependabot`) Spec: name

Observed from the public SKILL.md at the commit above on 2026-10-23. Not a certification: AAIF and the Agent Skills project don't certify skills. Validate your own skill with skills-ref validate.

Source repo	github/awesome-copilot
Path	skills/dependabot/SKILL.md
Commit checked	`d85f762d6e52`
Repo license	MIT
Files	4
Scripts	None
Instructions	12,792 characters
Deepest folder	1 below the skill folder
Rules version	2026-10-22

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Rule-based checks of public files against Microsoft's documented load rules, not tested in Copilot Studio or Microsoft 365 Copilot. Independent project, not affiliated with Microsoft.