Add contextual prioritization signals (usage, reachability hints, exposure)
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- TypeScript
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Description
Background
Current output is lockfile-first and remediation-focused, which is useful for fast triage. Community feedback suggests adding context that helps teams prioritize findings based on likely impact in real workflows.
Goal
Add optional contextual prioritization signals (not definitive exploitability claims) to help teams prioritize dependency findings.
Scope (initial)
- Add optional usage signal: package appears in project imports/requires
- Add optional reachability hint signal: lightweight static/path heuristics where applicable
- Add optional exposure signal: simple indicators (for example, package appears in server/request-facing dependency paths)
- Include these signals in verbose/JSON output as prioritization context
- Keep vulnerability matching logic unchanged
Non-goals
- No claim of definitive exploitability
- No full runtime reachability engine
- No guarantee that not-used means not-exploitable
Acceptance criteria
- Context fields are clearly labeled as heuristic/prioritization signals
- Existing lockfile vulnerability detection remains unchanged
- Output language stays precise and avoids overclaiming
- Tests cover signal presence/absence and fallback behavior
- Docs updated minimally to explain scope and limitations
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the existing lockfile vulnerability detection and verbose/JSON output paths. Define how usage, reachability-hint, and exposure signals are represented, including fallback behavior, while keeping matching unchanged. Add tests for signal presence and absence, then update the documentation with the heuristic limitations and verify precise output wording.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- node.js, typescript
- Domain
- cli, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100