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title: "Dependabot Configuration & Management - Air Market"
description: "Automated dependency updates are opening more pull requests than you can read, and the config file is not obvious. This walks you through setting it up and managing what comes back, including groupin…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/dependabot"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Dependabot Configuration & Management

Skill by [GitHub](/@github)

# Dependabot Configuration & Management

Tame dependency updates instead of drowning in their pull requests

## What this does

Automated dependency updates are opening more pull requests than you can read, and the config file is not obvious. This walks you through setting it up and managing what comes back, including grouping updates and handling repositories with many projects inside. It can also check dependencies for known vulnerabilities before you commit.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Write me a dependabot config
- Group these updates so there are fewer PRs
- Set this up across a monorepo

## Information

**Dependabot Configuration & Management at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [GitHub](/@github) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 35 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [github/awesome-copilot](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/b4b9beb69d9e8b21c0dfcfd9c86a835997b6a83b/skills/dependabot) |
| GitHub stars | 38,187 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 4,449, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Dependabot Configuration & Management and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Dependabot Configuration & Management's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | b4b9beb69d9e8b21c0dfcfd9c86a835997b6a83b |
| Content hash | c487625564e5714a59025cc59c729b3247eaa468dbfc31449e154c7e2aa840de |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/b4b9beb69d9e8b21c0dfcfd9c86a835997b6a83b/skills/dependabot/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Dependabot Configuration & Management](/security/dependabot)

## About Dependabot Configuration & Management

A guide to configuring and managing GitHub Dependabot. It covers writing and improving your config file, dealing with the pull requests it opens, and choosing how updates get made, including grouped updates, monorepo patterns and groups spanning several ecosystems.

It also covers security update configuration and auto-triage rules, and more broadly the GitHub Advanced Security supply chain topics that touch Dependabot.

For scanning dependencies for known vulnerabilities before a commit, it points to the Advanced Security plugin via the GitHub MCP Server, which is the path to use when an agent needs that check to happen first.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/dependabot-yml-reference.md - reference
- references/example-configs.md - reference
- references/pr-commands.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Dependabot Configuration & Management safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Dependabot Configuration & Management and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit b4b9beb69d9e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/dependabot.

### How do I install Dependabot Configuration & Management?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/dependabot on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/b4b9beb69d9e8b21c0dfcfd9c86a835997b6a83b/skills/dependabot. Install from that link, not the branch.

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