import-guardian 🪝

Catch AI-hallucinated (slopsquatted) npm imports in generated code — before you run npm install.

An LLM just wrote some code. It might import a package that doesn't exist — a name the model confidently hallucinated. Attackers register exactly those names and ship malware. This is slopsquatting, and in 2026 it's one of the fastest-growing supply-chain attacks: code generators have been observed referencing 205,000+ unique non-existent package names, and real hallucinated packages (react-codeshift, a fake huggingface-cli with 30k+ downloads) have already shown up in the wild.

import-guardian reads the generated code, extracts every npm package it imports, and tells you which ones are real — so an agent never installs a name its own model invented.

It's part of the guardian set: npm-guardian audits a package you've already chosen for CVEs and malicious behaviour, license-guardian audits the licenses of your dependencies (GPL/AGPL/BUSL traps) before you ship, and lockfile-guardian audits the resolved package-lock.json for integrity tampering and risky install scripts. import-guardian works one step earlier than all of them, at the moment the code — and its dependency names — are generated.

What it catches

Verdicts: 🟢 CLEAN · 🟠 REVIEW · 🔴 BLOCK.

Use it as an MCP server (free)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "import-guardian": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "import-guardian-mcp"] }
  }
}

Tools:

• scan_code_imports — give it a block of generated JS/TS; it extracts and checks every npm import. Run this on code you just generated, before its install command.
• check_packages — verify an explicit list of package names.
• verify_package — deep-check a single package name (existence, age, versions, repo, weekly downloads, edit distance to popular packages).
• audit_lockfile 🔒 (premium) — the deep one. Give it a lockfile from npm (package-lock.json), yarn (yarn.lock), pnpm (pnpm-lock.yaml), PyPI (requirements.txt / poetry.lock / Pipfile.lock) or Go (go.mod / go.sum) and it resolves the whole transitive tree and audits every package for dependency confusion, transitive typosquats / homoglyph clones, maintainer-takeover fingerprints, nonexistent pins, and install-script risk. See below.

Deep lockfile audit (premium) 🔒

scan_code_imports looks at the handful of imports you can see. audit_lockfile looks at the hundreds you can't — the fully resolved dependency graph in your lockfile — and finds the supply-chain attacks an LLM cannot reason about from source alone: