chainsaw pnpm

Run pnpm through Chainsaw — refuse malicious/typosquatted packages at install time

chainsaw pnpm [args...]

Run pnpm with an install-time supply-chain check in front of it.

Chainsaw evaluates the packages pnpm would install, refuses on a hit, and otherwise hands off to the real pnpm with your arguments untouched. Anything that is not an install verb (pnpm build, pnpm run, …) delegates immediately.

Guarded: pnpm add, pnpm install, pnpm i. pnpm install with no named package scans the resolved lockfile, pnpm-lock.yaml first.

Offline by default. The bundled checks — typosquat detection and a known-malicious floor — run entirely on your machine and send nothing. For the full OpenSSF malicious-packages feed, run the opt-in chainsaw guard update, which is the only networked step. Set CHAINSAW_OFFLINE=1 to refuse network access outright.

Fails open by default: when a signal cannot be evaluated, Chainsaw prints a visible notice and lets the install proceed, so a thin feed never breaks your build. See chainsaw guard coverage to make that fail closed instead.

Exit codes: 0 when the install proceeds (Chainsaw then returns the real tool’s own exit code), 1 when Chainsaw refuses.

--help and every other flag are forwarded to pnpm untouched, so chainsaw pnpm --help shows pnpm’s help, not this text. Use chainsaw help pnpm to see this page.

To make the check automatic, add the shell shims: eval "$(chainsaw guard init)".

Examples

chainsaw pnpm add lodash

# scans pnpm-lock.yaml
chainsaw pnpm install

Flags

This command forwards its arguments to the underlying tool unchanged, so it parses no flags of its own. Anything after the command name goes to the wrapped package manager verbatim.