# Makefile Dependency Auditor

> Parses GNU Makefiles using pymake and builds complete dependency DAGs. Detects circular dependencies, unreachable targets, missing prerequisites, and generates optimal parallel build orderings.

- Skill: `agentskillexchange/makefile-dependency-auditor` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add agentskillexchange/makefile-dependency-auditor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/agentskillexchange/makefile-dependency-auditor/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: agentskillexchange (https://skillmd.com/u/agentskillexchange)
- Updated: 2026-09-08
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/agentskillexchange/makefile-dependency-auditor

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# Makefile Dependency Auditor

Parses GNU Makefiles using pymake and builds complete dependency DAGs. Detects circular dependencies, unreachable targets, missing prerequisites, and generates optimal parallel build orderings.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- Make
- Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file
- should write a makefile for it, so that it is possible to use Make to
- Make enables the end user to build and install your package

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- file depends on another non-source file.
- header file does not require it.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- commands to compute it. These shell commands can run a compiler to
- example, the -o file option which says pretend that

- Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/makefile-dependency-auditor/)