npm adversary

Reviews npm projects for dangerous lifecycle scripts, auto-update cooldowns, and lockfile integrity.

Goals

The adversary is designed to produce a small number of high-confidence, actionable findings grounded in concrete repository evidence. Its review should be deterministic where possible, explicit about impact, and quiet when the available evidence does not justify a finding.

Scope

It evaluates npm manifests, lockfiles, lifecycle scripts, registry configuration, dependency sources, integrity, and automated update policy.

The complete detector or review inventory is maintained in CHECKS.md.

Boundaries

It owns this dependency manager's configuration and resolution inputs. Package source code and other ecosystem concerns remain with language and security specialists.

SDK source coverage

This release uses SDK 0.1.43. This reviewer uses deterministic prepared evidence rather than repository-tool model retrieval, so it has no model coverage result to reinterpret. Existing evidence gates and deterministic findings are preserved.

SDK 0.1.43

This release rebuilds with SDK 0.1.43. SDK PR #73 adds a tested neutral fallback to formatOpinionAsync when concern wording validation is exhausted, preserving completed findings and the ship decision. Reviewers that do not call this API retain their existing opinion behavior. Provider and transport failures remain errors. Domain rules and evidence requirements are unchanged.