ossuary-risk 0.8.0

OSS Supply Chain Risk Scoring - Where abandoned packages come to rest

Ossuary

OSS Supply Chain Risk Scoring - Where abandoned packages come to rest.

Ossuary analyzes open source packages to identify governance-based supply chain risks before incidents occur. It calculates a risk score (0-100) based on maintainer concentration, activity patterns, protective factors, and takeover detection.

What It Detects

Ossuary targets the subset of supply chain attacks where governance weakness is a precondition - social engineering takeovers, abandoned packages, governance disputes. High maintainer concentration isn't inherently dangerous (pciutils has been maintained by one person for 28 years), but combined with other signals it becomes meaningful.

Can Detect	Cannot Detect
Social engineering takeover (xz pattern)	Account compromise (stolen tokens)
Abandoned packages	Dependency confusion
Governance disputes (left-pad pattern)	Typosquatting
Newcomer takeover patterns	CI/CD exploits
Economic frustration signals	Active maintainer sabotage

Quick Start

# Install from PyPI
pip install ossuary-risk

# Set GitHub token for API access (optional but recommended)
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxx

# Initialize database
ossuary init

# Score a single package
ossuary score event-stream -e npm
ossuary score numpy -e pypi
ossuary score serde -e cargo

# Score with historical cutoff (T-1 analysis)
ossuary score event-stream -e npm --cutoff 2018-09-01

# Score an entire dependency tree
ossuary score-deps transformers -e pypi

# Show dependency tree with risk scores
ossuary deps express

# Generate xkcd-2347 tower visualization
ossuary xkcd-tree transformers -e pypi --tower -o tower.svg

# Batch score from seed file
ossuary seed-custom seeds/pypi-popular.yaml

# Show packages with biggest score changes
ossuary movers

Supported Ecosystems

npm, PyPI, Cargo, RubyGems, Packagist, NuGet, Go, GitHub

Scoring Methodology

Final Score = Base Risk + Activity Modifier + Protective Factors
             (20-100)      (-30 to +20)        (-70 to +20)

Base Risk from maintainer concentration. Activity Modifier rewards active maintenance, penalizes abandonment. Protective Factors include maintainer reputation, funding (GitHub Sponsors), org ownership, visibility (downloads/stars), community size, and takeover detection.

Takeover Detection (novel contribution): compares each contributor's recent commit share vs historical baseline. A newcomer jumping from 2% to 50% on a mature project triggers an alert. Guards prevent false positives for established contributors, long-tenure maintainers, and internal org handoffs.

See methodology for full details.

Visualization

The xkcd-tree command generates dependency tower diagrams inspired by xkcd 2347. Block color = risk score, block width = contributor count, arrow = most structurally critical dependency.

ossuary score-deps transformers -e pypi  # score all deps first
ossuary xkcd-tree transformers -e pypi --tower -o tower.svg

Dashboard

# Install with dashboard dependencies
pip install "ossuary-risk[dashboard]"

# Run dashboard
ossuary dashboard

Features: risk overview, ecosystem breakdown, package detail with score history, delta detection (biggest movers).

REST API

ossuary api

curl http://localhost:8100/score/pypi/flask
curl http://localhost:8100/check/npm/express

Interactive docs at http://localhost:8100/docs.

Validation

Validated on 164 packages across 8 ecosystems with a formal scoped validation framework:

Metric	All incidents	In-scope only (Scope B)
Accuracy	87.2%	94.7%
Precision	96.2%	96.0%
Recall	55.6%	77.4%
F1 Score	0.70	0.857

Ossuary detects governance risk, not all supply chain attacks. The "in-scope" metrics count only incidents where governance weakness was observable before the attack — governance decay, protestware, weak-governance compromise, and governance risk. Out-of-scope incidents (credential theft on healthy projects, CI/CD exploits) are included in the dataset but not counted against recall.

1 false positive (rxjs). 6 in-scope false negatives, all explainable (community forks, reputation-protected maintainers, untracked ownership transfers).

See validation report for full analysis.

Development

git clone https://github.com/anicka-net/ossuary-risk.git
cd ossuary-risk
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev,dashboard]"
cp .env.example .env  # add GITHUB_TOKEN
ossuary init

Configuration

GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxxxxxxxxxxxx     # GitHub API access (recommended)
DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///ossuary.db  # Default; supports PostgreSQL
OSSUARY_CACHE_DAYS=7               # Score freshness threshold

License

MIT

Academic Context

MBA thesis research on OSS supply chain risk (VŠE Prague, due Dec 2026).

AI assistance declaration: The tool was co-developed with Claude Opus (Anthropic) and reviewed by OpenAI Codex/GPT. AI assistance was used for implementation, data collection, analysis scripts, and working notes. Code reviews by both models are marked in commit history via Co-Authored-By trailers. All thesis text is the author's own.

Key contribution: governance-based risk indicators are observable in public metadata before incidents occur, but they address a specific attack subset — not a universal detector.