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.