ladex 0.1.3

A bill of lading for AI.

You already require a bill of lading for physical cargo and an SBOM for software. Ladex is the one for AI — it records what AI is aboard your codebase, from whom, and under what terms, captured at the moment the code is written rather than discovered after the fact.

Ladex is a shift-left AI governance tool for developers. When you write an AI-relevant line of code — importing an agent framework, loading a Hugging Face model, calling an inference API, provisioning a GPU node pool in Terraform — Ladex detects it and answers three questions:

1. What is this?  model / dataset / agent framework / vector store / inference API
2. What does it obligate?  EU AI Act Art. 50 disclosure, Annex III high-risk triggers
3. What's auto-verifiable vs. what needs a human?  CVEs and licenses resolve automatically. Training-data provenance and consent basis can't be derived by any scanner — they're flagged UNDOCUMENTED and require a signed human attestation, never a fake green checkmark.

The output is a CycloneDX ML-BOM committed to your repo, diffable in PRs, with signed attestations for the fields no tool can derive.

Ladex records what's aboard; it does not block attacks.

What it does

detect (Python + Terraform + Kubernetes)
  → enrich    PyPI licenses · OSV CVEs · Hugging Face model cards   (cached, offline-capable)
  → obligate  EU AI Act Art. 50 — applies / may-apply / silent; derivable vs. attestation
  → BOM       deterministic CycloneDX ML-BOM that diffs cleanly in PRs
  → attest    in-toto/DSSE signature fills an UNDOCUMENTED gap with a verifiable declaration

surfaces:  CLI   +   VS Code (LSP, inline diagnostics as you type)   — one shared engine

Install

Requires uv and Python 3.12.

git clone https://github.com/aibhuyan/ladex
cd ladex
uv sync
uv run ladex --version

Quickstart

# See every AI component in a repo (silent on non-AI code)
uv run ladex scan path/to/repo

# Add real facts: licenses, CVEs, model cards (cached; --offline works from cache)
uv run ladex scan path/to/repo --enrich

# What does it obligate under the EU AI Act? (declare project facts to resolve "may apply")
uv run ladex policy check path/to/repo --user-facing

# Produce the committable, deterministic ML-BOM
uv run ladex scan path/to/repo --write-bom aibom.cdx.json

# Sign a human answer for a gap no scanner can fill, then verify it
uv run ladex attest "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2" \
    --claim provenance --value "Curated public corpora, reviewed 2026-08"
uv run ladex verify

Example

app.py
   7:10  inference_api    openai.client       openai.OpenAI (OpenAI)
  12:9   model            openai.model-id     gpt-4o (OpenAI)

infra/main.tf
  20:1   vector_store     iac.tf.vector-store-unencrypted   HIGH   aws_opensearch_domain.vectors
                                                                   - Vector store is not encrypted at rest

Summary: 3 detection(s) across 2 of 2 file(s) scanned.

In your editor

The VS Code extension gives inline diagnostics as you type, nothing on non-AI code — and the platform builds bundle the engine, so it's a single install with no separate pip install:

• Grab the .vsix for your platform from the Releases page — ladex-<version>-{win32-x64,darwin-arm64,linux-x64}.vsix — → Extensions panel → Install from VSIX… (Marketplace listing coming soon, which auto-selects your platform).

Then open any Python file that uses an AI library. See extensions/vscode/README.md for configuration and development.

Design principles

• One engine, three surfaces. The IDE, CLI, and (v2) PR check all call the same Python engine — the editor can never disagree with the gate.
• Ruthless silence. If a line isn't AI-relevant, Ladex says nothing.
• Honest gaps. UNDOCUMENTED is a valid, valuable output. A green checkmark only appears when something was actually verified — or signed by a named human.
• Policy as versioned data. Taxonomy and EU AI Act rules are updatable bundles, not code.

Scope (v1)

Python + Terraform + Kubernetes detection. EU AI Act. Two surfaces (CLI + VS Code). The GitHub PR check and evidence graph are v2.

Development

uv run ruff check .
uv run mypy
uv run pytest

Pre-commit (ruff + mypy) runs on every commit; run uv run pre-commit install once.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.