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Spike: Investigate supply chain attack mitigation

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Description

What needs to be done

Investigate potentially updating our build process to protect against recent supply chain attacks

Why it needs to be done

Security etc

Acceptance Criteria

Technical Notes

  • Basically: introducing a cooldown period for new dependencies and not allowing automatic scripts to run during package install unless explicitly allowed.

Additional context

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked ecr-viewer pull request and then inspect this repository's current build and package-install configuration; no specific files or tests are named in the issue. Determine whether a dependency cooldown and explicit approval for install scripts can be applied here. Done means documenting the feasibility and a concrete implementation approach.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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