Product

Overview

How it works Watch it work All 35 features Screenshots How ForgeRepo™ is secured

Keep bad packages out

Malware scanning Typosquat detection Dependency confusion protection Cooling off new releases Allow lists and block lists

When something goes wrong

Kill switch Who has it Lockdown and degraded modes Vulnerability monitoring

Developers and approvals

Requests and auto approve Check, walk and review Waivers Dry run
Formats

Languages

Private npm registry PyPI proxy and private index Private NuGet feed and proxy Maven repository proxy RubyGems mirror Composer and Packagist proxy

Apple, containers and Linux

CocoaPods CDN mirror Swift package registry Docker registry mirror RPM mirror for dnf and yum APT mirror for Debian and Ubuntu

Use it as

An npm firewall Artifacts, SBOMs and lifecycle More than one node SSO, roles and allow lists
Learn

Guides

Learn secure development Secure coding Secure pipelines Unsafe vs safe Security and development

Supply chain

Supply chain attacks, 2016 to 2026 Software supply chain security
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Docs

Start

Getting started Download All documentation Questions

For developers

npm setup pip setup docker login Push a Docker image CI basics

For administrators

First setup Rules and their order Six incidents, walked through Backup and upgrade
Pricing Install it

Developers and approvals

Check a package, walk its tree, review a lockfile

The Check page answers the question before it becomes an incident: what will this pull in, and what does the registry make of it?

Check a package

Type a name and a version and see what the rules say, for everyone or for a particular application and environment. Show every version lists each published version as approved, blocked, quarantined, cooling or excluded, with the reasons.

Walk the tree

A package with 60 dependencies needs all 60 allowed, or the install still fails. The walk resolves the whole tree and says what every package is, worst first: blocked, known advisory, no rule approves it, or never seen here. For an image, the tree is its platforms, its layers and every package found inside them. The walk is for npm, PyPI and images only for now. Tick what you need and ask for it, or as an approver, allow it, in one go.

Review a file

Drop in a package.json, package-lock.json, npm-shrinkwrap.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, a requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pylock.toml, Pipfile.lock, a composer.lock or composer.json, a CycloneDX or SPDX SBOM, a CSV or JSON inventory, a plain list, or a zip of any of them.

An SBOM is split by each component's package url (its purl, or a bom-ref that holds one), and an inventory by its purl or ecosystem column, so NuGet, Maven, RubyGems, CocoaPods, Swift, Composer, RPM and APT packages are each judged by their own type's rules. A type the box has no rules for, like Go modules or Cargo crates, is counted and left out, and the notes say how many. Every package comes back as blocked, whitelisted or needs review, with the distinctions that matter: whitelisted but vulnerable, at risk, and an unapproved version of a known package. Every pinned version is checked against the advisory feed too.

The upload is read in memory and never written to disk. A blocked row has no tick box at all, so a denied version can never be whitelisted by being in the same file as something somebody wants.

packages.example.com/_admin/
Reviewing a package-lock.json: every package judged against the rules and the advisory feed.

In short

  • Per version answers, for any application and environment
  • Full dependency tree for npm, PyPI and images
  • Lockfiles, composer.lock, SBOMs, inventories and zips reviewed in memory, every type by its own rules
  • Advisory check on every pinned version
  • Ask for, allow or block straight from the results

In the documentation

Goes well with

  • Requests and auto approve A blocked install opens a request. Clean ones can approve themselves, risky ones wait for a person.
  • Allow lists and block lists Whitelist or blacklist by name, scope, wildcard or version range, for every type. A blocked version is not even listed to the client.
  • Vulnerability monitoring OSV, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS against everything allowed and cached. npm audit answered locally.

One container, about two minutes

A Linux box with Docker, or one without it, and a reverse proxy for TLS. The installer does the rest and it is safe to run twice. Free, MIT licensed, nothing to sign up for.