dependabot
A guidance skill from GitHub's awesome-copilot collection about Dependabot.
What the skill teaches
A guidance skill from GitHub's awesome-copilot collection about Dependabot. It leads an agent through finding every dependency manifest in a repository and writing the single .github/dependabot.yml file, with grouped updates, monorepo and multi-ecosystem patterns, schedules and security-update settings, then covers handling Dependabot pull requests with comment commands and auto-triage rules. Reference files hold the configuration options, example configurations and pull request commands. For checking dependencies before a commit, it points agents to GitHub's Advanced Security plugin, which works through the GitHub MCP server. It has no scripts.
Capabilities
- Write or optimise a dependabot.yml for every ecosystem in a repository
- Set up grouped and security updates
- Manage Dependabot pull requests with comment commands
- Configure auto-triage rules
Install
The project doesn't document install steps that we could confirm. See the project's own instructions
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | GitHub | |
| Publisher | GitHub | source |
| Official status | Officialpublished in GitHub's own awesome-copilot repository and about GitHub Dependabot; the collection describes itself as community-created | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Licence | MIT | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | No commit dataDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | |
| Links | Repository |
Sources
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/github/awesome-copilotNov 12, 2026
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/github/awesome-copilot · Backs: Official status, PublisherNov 12, 2026
- Licence file (LICENSE)github.com/github/awesome-copilot · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- Folder in the repository (dependabot)github.com/github/awesome-copilot · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 12, 2026