pkgwatch

What it does

pkgwatch is a blazingly fast, privacy-first desktop agent that scans your local machine for malicious packages and vulnerabilities in milliseconds. Combining heuristic analysis with a deterministic OSV threat feed, it secures your supply chain with zero cloud leakage.

Generated by a paranoid dev

A blazingly fast, locally-executing desktop agent that scans your machine for malicious packages and zero-day vulnerabilities in milliseconds. Modern supply chain attacks are fundamentally different. Your tools need to be too. Powered by the open-source Bumblebee Go binary wrapped in a hyper-optimized Rust/Tauri desktop shell. Native performance, sub-500ms cold starts, zero overhead. Analyzes package metadata, publication age, maintainer history, and behavioral signals. Assigns High/Medium/Low confidence scores so you know which suspicious packages to act on first. Fetches a daily-updated catalog.json compiled from Google OSV. Every known CVE and malware signature matched locally—guaranteed…from pkgwatch.vercel.app

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