Show HN: Yoink functionality from dependencies and avoid supply chain attacks

yoink is a Claude Code plugin that removes complex dependencies from your codebase by reimplementing only the functions you actually use.

yoink runs as a three-step, agent skills-based workflow:

1. /setup clones the target repo and scaffolds a replacement package.

2. /curate-tests generates tests verified against the original's expectations.

3. /decompose determines dependencies to keep or decompose based on principles such as "keeping foundational primitives regardless of how narrow they are used".

We built yoink in response to the five major supply chain attacks that happened in two weeks, including LiteLLM and axios. We install most of these packages without thinking twice.

Andrej Karpathy recently called for re-evaluating the belief that "dependencies are good". OpenAI echoed this in their harness engineering article: agents reason better from reimplemented functionality they have full visibility into, over opaque third-party libraries.

yoink makes this capability accessible to anyone.

Refer to the GitHub repo to install the plugin to Claude Code: https://github.com/theogbrand/yoink

Love to hear what you think!