Become a sponsor to Division 7

Hi, we're Division 7!

We are constantly working on building new open-source projects, but most of our recent time has gone into developing PKG-Defender (pkgd), a free, Apache-2.0 command-line tool built specifically to combat the recent flood of supply chain attacks. Before an install or an update goes through, pkgd screens the package against nine threat feeds. Brand-new releases wait out a pre-set cooldown by default, because a package that has existed for an hour deserves some healthy suspicion. If pkgd can't verify that something is safe, it blocks it. We'd rather you lose thirty seconds to a false alarm, than a whole week picking up the pieces after falling victim to a malicious dependency.

These days, coding agents are handling more of the installing themselves, sometimes while you're head's down working on something else. A tool that already screens every install against fresh threat intelligence turns out to be extremely useful when the one installing the package isn't you. Now, you can finally rest easy and let the agent work, knowing there's a guardrail between it and your machine.

Outside of PKG-Defender we keep a growing portfolio of useful developer tools and resources, everything is free, and it will stay that way! What isn't free is the machinery, effort, and time behind it all. A scheduled GitHub Actions workflow publishes a freshly verified threat-database snapshot every six hours, built from nine synchronized feeds. That's continuous compute keeping the protection current, and it's one of the real costs of running these projects.

If pkgd stops even one bad install from reaching your machine, or if any of our project have made your life a little bit easier, they have already earned their keep. If you'd like to help cover the cost of those six-hourly threat snapshot publications, or sponsor our continued development of free and open-source projects, we would greatly appreciate the support.

Thank you for checking out our page, stay tuned for our new projects releasing soon!