Aikido Safe-Chain
Shares rank 7 of 10 vulnerability scanners by recommenders
Recommended for guarding developer machines and CI/CD pipelines against malicious packages, with a minimum release age setting and wrappers for common package managers.
Recommended for guarding developer machines and CI/CD pipelines against malicious packages, with a minimum release age setting and wrappers for common package managers.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Other package managers may be misconfigured
“there is always gonna be another package manager configured wrong”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer and Backdoor”
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Codex Security | 21 | 30 | 41% | 4 | — | — |
| govulncheck | 13 | 0 | 100% | 9 | — | Approved |
| AISLE | 11 | 2 | 85% | 5 | — | Approved |
| Trivy | 10 | 23 | 30% | 5 | — | — |
| Aikido Safe-ChainThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“there is always gonna be another package manager configured wrong”
“It sets minimum release age, but also provides a wrapper for npm/uv/etc”
“Just pushed out via Mosyle to our devs, thanks for this!”
“helps pretect your development machines, and CI/CD pipelines, from being compromised”
“you can use eg safe-chains everywhere”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.