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OpenVSX Sentinel

6.8
devtools profitable added: Tuesday January 2026 16:45

A continuous monitoring and validation service for the Open VSX registry, detecting and alerting developers to potentially malicious extension packages recommended by AI-powered VS Code forks. Uses anomaly detection to identify newly published packages with suspicious characteristics.

150h
mvp estimate
6.8
viability grade
13
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technology stack

Python SQLite Medium

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