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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: vaporcheck
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Fail-closed existence verification for model-emitted identifiers — catches hallucinated (vaporware) packages, paths, and symbols before an agent acts on them.
+Author-email: "Codemax IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd." <licensing@cdmx.in>
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck/tree/main/docs
+Keywords: mcp,llm,agent,hallucination,slopsquatting,supply-chain,security
+Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Topic :: Security
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: NOTICE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# vaporcheck
+
+**Fail-closed existence verification for model-emitted identifiers.** Catch hallucinated and slop-squatted package names, dead file paths, and nonexistent API/tool names *before* an agent acts on them — because vaporware you `pip install` is somebody else's payload.
+
+[![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+![tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-38%2F38-brightgreen)
+![deps](https://img.shields.io/badge/runtime%20deps-0-brightgreen)
+
+---
+
+## Why
+
+LLM coding agents confidently emit identifiers that don't exist: a USENIX Security 2025 study found **19.7% of LLM-recommended packages were hallucinated** — an open door for *slopsquatting* (an attacker registers the hallucinated name). The same failure shows up as dead file paths, deprecated/removed APIs, and calls to tools that were never registered.
+
+The root cause — model **overconfidence** — is not fixable by a wrapper. So vaporcheck doesn't try. It replaces the unanswerable question *"is the model confident?"* with a deterministic one:
+
+> **"Does the referent actually exist in its authoritative source?"**
+
+That's a binary lookup (a registry, the filesystem, a symbol table) — testable, cheap, and hard to argue with.
+
+## How it works
+
+A small **resolver core** answers `exists / not-found / deprecated / cannot-verify` for one identifier, shipped through two delivery vehicles:
+
+| Vehicle | What it is | Guarantee |
+|---------|-----------|-----------|
+| **MCP server** (`verify_identifier` tool) | Any MCP client can ask "does this exist?" | Agent-callable, advisory |
+| **PreToolUse hook** | A Claude Code hook that denies the tool call | **Fail-closed** — the agent can't proceed |
+
+Both reuse the same resolvers. Standalone, the MCP is advisory (the model may ignore it); paired with the hook (or any gateway that can block), it becomes a hard gate.
+
+### The honest boundary
+
+A hook sees **tool calls, not generated text**. So today this gates the two classes that surface at the tool boundary:
+
+- **package installs** (`pip install`, `npm install`, …) — verified against PyPI / npm
+- **file paths** (`Edit` of a missing file) — verified against the filesystem
+
+Tool-names and API-symbols buried in generated code are *verify-on-write / verify-on-run* (gate the `Edit` or test that introduces them), not mid-sentence interception. This is a deliberate, documented limit — see [docs/SPIKE-FINDINGS.md](docs/SPIKE-FINDINGS.md).
+
+## Install
+
+Requires **Python 3.10+**. **Zero runtime dependencies** (stdlib only — fitting for an anti-supply-chain-risk tool).
+
+### Option A — pip (adds the `vaporcheck-mcp` console command)
+
+```bash
+pip install vaporcheck
+```
+
+### Option B — clone (if you want the hook/MCP config to point at source files)
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck.git
+cd vaporcheck
+python vaporcheck/test_parse.py   # offline smoke test — should print 10/10 PASS
+```
+
+## Configure
+
+### As an MCP server (any MCP client)
+
+```jsonc
+// .mcp.json (project scope) — adjust the path to where you cloned
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "vaporcheck": { "command": "python", "args": ["/path/to/vaporcheck/vaporcheck/server.py"] }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+(On Windows, `"command": "py", "args": ["-3", ...]` also works. If you installed via pip, use `"command": "vaporcheck-mcp"` with no args.)
+
+Then call the `verify_identifier` tool:
+
+```json
+{ "kind": "pypi", "value": "reqeusts" }
+// -> { "status": "not-found", ... }   (a slopsquat — blocked)
+```
+
+### As a fail-closed Claude Code hook
+
+```jsonc
+// .claude/settings.json (or settings.local.json)
+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "PreToolUse": [
+      { "matcher": "Bash",
+        "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "python /path/to/vaporcheck/vaporcheck/hook.py", "timeout": 15 }] }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Restart Claude Code to load the hook. Now `pip install <hallucinated-package>` is **denied before it runs**, with a reason the model can self-correct from. On network failure the hook degrades to *ask* instead of falsely blocking.
+
+## Status
+
+**MVP — working, tested, dogfooded.** Resolvers: PyPI, npm, filesystem paths. Shared SQLite cache (warm lookups ~1 ms) with status-aware TTLs and a token-bucket throttle.
+
+### Roadmap
+
+- [ ] More package ecosystems: crates.io, Go, RubyGems, Maven
+- [ ] **Tool-name** resolver (against the live tool registry) — greenfield, no incumbent
+- [ ] **API-symbol** resolver (via LSP / compiler) — greenfield
+- [ ] Citations resolver (last; the crowded class — breadth, not headline)
+- [x] Namespace the modules under a package; publish to PyPI
+
+## Tests
+
+38 checks across 4 suites — all hitting real registries / filesystem, no mocks:
+
+```bash
+python vaporcheck/run_spike.py    # hook behavior (10)
+python vaporcheck/test_parse.py   # shell-aware install parser (10)
+python vaporcheck/test_mcp.py     # MCP client handshake (9)
+python vaporcheck/test_cache.py   # cache latency / TTL / errors (9)
+```
+
+## Provenance
+
+This repo is the product of a structured research → validation → build effort. The full record — pain-point research, web-verified go/no-go, and the live-dogfooding spike that found and fixed two real parser bugs — is in [docs/](docs/).
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE) © 2026 [Codemax IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.](https://cdmx.in)

vaporcheck-0.1.0/README.md

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+# vaporcheck
+
+**Fail-closed existence verification for model-emitted identifiers.** Catch hallucinated and slop-squatted package names, dead file paths, and nonexistent API/tool names *before* an agent acts on them — because vaporware you `pip install` is somebody else's payload.
+
+[![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+![tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-38%2F38-brightgreen)
+![deps](https://img.shields.io/badge/runtime%20deps-0-brightgreen)
+
+---
+
+## Why
+
+LLM coding agents confidently emit identifiers that don't exist: a USENIX Security 2025 study found **19.7% of LLM-recommended packages were hallucinated** — an open door for *slopsquatting* (an attacker registers the hallucinated name). The same failure shows up as dead file paths, deprecated/removed APIs, and calls to tools that were never registered.
+
+The root cause — model **overconfidence** — is not fixable by a wrapper. So vaporcheck doesn't try. It replaces the unanswerable question *"is the model confident?"* with a deterministic one:
+
+> **"Does the referent actually exist in its authoritative source?"**
+
+That's a binary lookup (a registry, the filesystem, a symbol table) — testable, cheap, and hard to argue with.
+
+## How it works
+
+A small **resolver core** answers `exists / not-found / deprecated / cannot-verify` for one identifier, shipped through two delivery vehicles:
+
+| Vehicle | What it is | Guarantee |
+|---------|-----------|-----------|
+| **MCP server** (`verify_identifier` tool) | Any MCP client can ask "does this exist?" | Agent-callable, advisory |
+| **PreToolUse hook** | A Claude Code hook that denies the tool call | **Fail-closed** — the agent can't proceed |
+
+Both reuse the same resolvers. Standalone, the MCP is advisory (the model may ignore it); paired with the hook (or any gateway that can block), it becomes a hard gate.
+
+### The honest boundary
+
+A hook sees **tool calls, not generated text**. So today this gates the two classes that surface at the tool boundary:
+
+- **package installs** (`pip install`, `npm install`, …) — verified against PyPI / npm
+- **file paths** (`Edit` of a missing file) — verified against the filesystem
+
+Tool-names and API-symbols buried in generated code are *verify-on-write / verify-on-run* (gate the `Edit` or test that introduces them), not mid-sentence interception. This is a deliberate, documented limit — see [docs/SPIKE-FINDINGS.md](docs/SPIKE-FINDINGS.md).
+
+## Install
+
+Requires **Python 3.10+**. **Zero runtime dependencies** (stdlib only — fitting for an anti-supply-chain-risk tool).
+
+### Option A — pip (adds the `vaporcheck-mcp` console command)
+
+```bash
+pip install vaporcheck
+```
+
+### Option B — clone (if you want the hook/MCP config to point at source files)
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck.git
+cd vaporcheck
+python vaporcheck/test_parse.py   # offline smoke test — should print 10/10 PASS
+```
+
+## Configure
+
+### As an MCP server (any MCP client)
+
+```jsonc
+// .mcp.json (project scope) — adjust the path to where you cloned
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "vaporcheck": { "command": "python", "args": ["/path/to/vaporcheck/vaporcheck/server.py"] }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+(On Windows, `"command": "py", "args": ["-3", ...]` also works. If you installed via pip, use `"command": "vaporcheck-mcp"` with no args.)
+
+Then call the `verify_identifier` tool:
+
+```json
+{ "kind": "pypi", "value": "reqeusts" }
+// -> { "status": "not-found", ... }   (a slopsquat — blocked)
+```
+
+### As a fail-closed Claude Code hook
+
+```jsonc
+// .claude/settings.json (or settings.local.json)
+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "PreToolUse": [
+      { "matcher": "Bash",
+        "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "python /path/to/vaporcheck/vaporcheck/hook.py", "timeout": 15 }] }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Restart Claude Code to load the hook. Now `pip install <hallucinated-package>` is **denied before it runs**, with a reason the model can self-correct from. On network failure the hook degrades to *ask* instead of falsely blocking.
+
+## Status
+
+**MVP — working, tested, dogfooded.** Resolvers: PyPI, npm, filesystem paths. Shared SQLite cache (warm lookups ~1 ms) with status-aware TTLs and a token-bucket throttle.
+
+### Roadmap
+
+- [ ] More package ecosystems: crates.io, Go, RubyGems, Maven
+- [ ] **Tool-name** resolver (against the live tool registry) — greenfield, no incumbent
+- [ ] **API-symbol** resolver (via LSP / compiler) — greenfield
+- [ ] Citations resolver (last; the crowded class — breadth, not headline)
+- [x] Namespace the modules under a package; publish to PyPI
+
+## Tests
+
+38 checks across 4 suites — all hitting real registries / filesystem, no mocks:
+
+```bash
+python vaporcheck/run_spike.py    # hook behavior (10)
+python vaporcheck/test_parse.py   # shell-aware install parser (10)
+python vaporcheck/test_mcp.py     # MCP client handshake (9)
+python vaporcheck/test_cache.py   # cache latency / TTL / errors (9)
+```
+
+## Provenance
+
+This repo is the product of a structured research → validation → build effort. The full record — pain-point research, web-verified go/no-go, and the live-dogfooding spike that found and fixed two real parser bugs — is in [docs/](docs/).
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE) © 2026 [Codemax IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.](https://cdmx.in)

vaporcheck-0.1.0/pyproject.toml

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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "vaporcheck"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Fail-closed existence verification for model-emitted identifiers — catches hallucinated (vaporware) packages, paths, and symbols before an agent acts on them."
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+authors = [{ name = "Codemax IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.", email = "licensing@cdmx.in" }]
+keywords = ["mcp", "llm", "agent", "hallucination", "slopsquatting", "supply-chain", "security"]
+classifiers = [
+  "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+  "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+  "Topic :: Security",
+  "Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance",
+  "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+]
+dependencies = []  # stdlib only — zero runtime dependencies by design
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck"
+Repository = "https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck"
+Documentation = "https://github.com/cdmx-in/vaporcheck/tree/main/docs"
+
+[project.scripts]
+vaporcheck-mcp = "vaporcheck.server:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+packages = ["vaporcheck"]
+
+# ponytail: the test files ship inside the wheel (~20 KB, stdlib-only, harmless);
+# split them out to a tests/ dir if wheel hygiene ever matters.

vaporcheck-0.1.0/setup.cfg

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+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+

vaporcheck-0.1.0/vaporcheck/__init__.py

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+"""vaporcheck — fail-closed existence verification for model-emitted identifiers."""
+
+__version__ = "0.1.0"

vaporcheck-0.1.0/vaporcheck/cache.py

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+"""Shared SQLite cache + token-bucket rate limiter for the verifier.
+
+stdlib only. The cache file is shared by BOTH the short-lived PreToolUse hook
+processes and the long-running MCP server, so a result fetched by one is reused
+by the other — an in-memory cache could not do this.
+
+Status-aware TTLs double as false-positive protection:
+  exists      -> long   (existence rarely changes)
+  deprecated  -> medium
+  not-found   -> SHORT  (a legitimately-new package may appear soon)
+  cannot-verify -> never cached (transient)
+"""
+import os
+import sqlite3
+import time
+
+CACHE_PATH = os.environ.get(
+    "VERIFY_CACHE", os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), ".verify-cache.sqlite"))
+
+TTL = {
+    "exists": 7 * 24 * 3600,
+    "deprecated": 24 * 3600,
+    "not-found": 600,            # 10 min — short on purpose
+}
+
+# token bucket for live registry fetches
+RATE = 10.0          # tokens/sec refill
+CAPACITY = 20.0      # burst
+MAX_WAIT = 2.0       # never block a fetch longer than this
+
+
+def _conn():
+    c = sqlite3.connect(CACHE_PATH, timeout=5)
+    c.execute("PRAGMA busy_timeout=3000")
+    c.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS cache ("
+              "key TEXT PRIMARY KEY, kind TEXT, identifier TEXT, status TEXT, "
+              "canonical TEXT, note TEXT, expires REAL)")
+    c.execute("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bucket ("
+              "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY CHECK (id=1), tokens REAL, updated REAL)")
+    return c
+
+
+def _key(kind, value):
+    return f"{kind}\x00{value}"
+
+
+def get(kind, value):
+    """Return a dict {identifier,status,canonical,note} if a fresh hit, else None."""
+    now = time.time()
+    with _conn() as c:
+        row = c.execute(
+            "SELECT identifier,status,canonical,note,expires FROM cache WHERE key=?",
+            (_key(kind, value),)).fetchone()
+        if not row:
+            return None
+        ident, status, canonical, note, expires = row
+        if expires < now:
+            c.execute("DELETE FROM cache WHERE key=?", (_key(kind, value),))
+            return None
+        return {"identifier": ident, "status": status,
+                "canonical": canonical or None, "note": note or ""}
+
+
+def put(kind, identifier, status, canonical, note):
+    ttl = TTL.get(status)
+    if ttl is None:
+        return                                   # don't cache cannot-verify
+    with _conn() as c:
+        c.execute("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO cache VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?)",
+                  (_key(kind, identifier), kind, identifier, status,
+                   canonical or "", note or "", time.time() + ttl))
+
+
+def throttle():
+    """Consume one token before a live fetch; sleep briefly if the bucket is dry."""
+    now = time.time()
+    wait = 0.0
+    with _conn() as c:
+        row = c.execute("SELECT tokens,updated FROM bucket WHERE id=1").fetchone()
+        tokens, updated = (row if row else (CAPACITY, now))
+        tokens = min(CAPACITY, tokens + (now - updated) * RATE)
+        if tokens < 1.0:
+            wait = min(MAX_WAIT, (1.0 - tokens) / RATE)
+            tokens += wait * RATE
+        tokens -= 1.0
+        c.execute("INSERT OR REPLACE INTO bucket (id,tokens,updated) VALUES (1,?,?)",
+                  (tokens, now + wait))
+    if wait:
+        time.sleep(wait)
+
+
+# --- helpers for tests / inspection ---
+def peek(kind, value):
+    with _conn() as c:
+        row = c.execute("SELECT status,expires FROM cache WHERE key=?",
+                        (_key(kind, value),)).fetchone()
+    return {"status": row[0], "expires": row[1]} if row else None
+
+
+def clear():
+    with _conn() as c:
+        c.execute("DELETE FROM cache")
+        c.execute("DELETE FROM bucket")