# usestrix/firewall

> A Rust tool that blocks installation of malicious packages from npm, PyPI, crates.io, Go and RubyGems by checking Strix's blocklist and holding back new versions. Runs locally: either machine-wide on macOS/Windows or as a command prefix.

- Magnitude: 2.0 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 11 total · +9 stars measured 2026-10-26, 18:33–21:49 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-17 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/usestrix/firewall · Homepage: https://www.strix.ai/blog/firewall-announcement · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/usestrix/firewall

## Useful for

- Block a malicious npm package before it is downloaded to the machine
- Delay installation of fresh package versions by 24–48 hours via min_age_hours
- Screen dependencies in CI or locally with the firewall prefix before npm install

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 18:33–21:49: 2 → 11 stars (+9). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +10 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 39 days old and already has 11 stars.
- Hacker News: “After LiteLLM's backdoor, we open-sourced an OS-level package firewall” — 26 points, 3 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 90
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v0.1.2 (2026-10-26)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-27 … 2026-10-26: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 9

## Hacker News

- After LiteLLM's backdoor, we open-sourced an OS-level package firewall — 26 points, 1 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248207

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-26 21:55 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.