import-guardian

Our take

The tool addresses a real problem (slopsquatted npm imports), but the audit found manufactured ecosystem presence: the anonymous zero-follower owner forked five awesome-* lists (awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-mcp-security, awesome-secure-mcp-servers, awesome-x402, awesome-agentic-commerce) in one week and committed self-insertions promoting his own products — the awesome-x402 fork carries an 'Add guardian set to Security & Audits' commit advertising four of them. Those four 'guardian' services plus six other repos were all created within days of each other, each monetized via Stripe 'premium' tools and x402 pay-per-call USDC. Faked ecosystem endorsement to sell paid API calls from an anonymous operator is exactly the buywhere pattern.

reviewed by hand · 2026-07-05

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Verification record

last verified

27 days ago

github stars

0

last commit

3 mo ago

archived

no

license

MIT

npm

import-guardian-mcp

downloads / wk

41

latest version

0.3.0

in registry since

2026-06-26

github.com/Baneado98/import-guardian