Executive Summary

Engineering teams and autonomous coding agents currently pick packages using static, fragmented signals (vulnerability feeds, manual trust, download counts) which leads to regressions, performance surprises, and security exposures for roughly 1.5M engineering teams. The pain is acute for orgs trying to automate PRs and enforce SBOM/compliance policies, where human-readable advisories and post-facto alerts are inadequate. You could build a machine-readable package health service that emits real-time scores combining provenance, vulnerability feeds, synthetic performance benchmarks, and lightweight runtime telemetry, delivered via APIs, CI/CD plugins, and agent SDKs so coding agents make safe, fast choices programmatically. Include a configurable policy engine, environment-aware scoring, and streaming alerts to reduce noise and operational overhead. Market timing favors this: AI-driven coding tools increase programmatic package consumption while regulatory and enterprise focus on supply-chain security drives demand for automated scoring, creating an addressable market around $4.5B (1.5M teams × ~$3K ACV). With a Market Score of 88 and Revenue Potential of 82, there’s room to win enterprise customers paying for auditable, low-latency signals. You can differentiate by optimizing scores and integrations specifically for coding agents and CI automation—offering deterministic, real-time signals and SBOM-aware provenance—while acknowledging the hard work required to build broad telemetry coverage, keep latency low, and compete with incumbent vulnerability and package-index providers.

Market Opportunity

Help coding AI agents pick fast, secure packages using real-time health signals targets a $4.5B = 1.5M engineering teams × $3K ACV (developer tooling and package-security services relevant to package health scoring) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 15% YoY — developer tools and software supply chain security are expanding due to increased automation and regulatory focus (source: Grand View Research, Forrester 2024).

Key trends driving demand: AI-driven development — coding agents and automated PRs increase programmatic consumption of packages and require machine-readable safety signals.; Supply chain security — regulatory and enterprise focus on SBOMs and software provenance raises demand for automated package health scoring.; Shift to observability for dependencies — teams want telemetry and synthetic benchmarks to quantify runtime costs and reliability of packages.; API-first developer tooling — teams prefer services that integrate into CI/CD and agents via fast APIs and SDKs, enabling low-latency decisioning..

Key competitors include npm (GitHub), Snyk, Sonatype (Nexus, Lift, OSS Index).

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Help coding AI agents pick fast, secure packages using real-time health signals

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