austin-tui

v2.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

The top-like text-based user interface for Austin

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package exhibits low risks in terms of network usage, shell execution, obfuscation, and credential handling. However, the metadata risk score is elevated due to the maintainer's new or inactive account and lack of author details.

  • Metadata risk due to new/inactive maintainer account
  • Lack of detailed author information
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires external services.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating no immediate risk of command injection or unauthorized system access.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk of malicious activity.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk of secret theft.
  • Metadata: The maintainer has a new or inactive account and lacks author details, raising some suspicion but not conclusive evidence of malice.

📦 Package Quality Overall: Medium (7.0/10)

✦ High Test Suite 9.0

Test suite present — 7 test file(s) found

  • 7 test file(s) detected (e.g. mcurses.py)
◈ Medium Documentation 7.0

Some documentation present

  • Documentation URL: "documentation" -> https://austin-tui.readthedocs.io
  • Detailed PyPI description (10206 chars)
○ Low Contributing Guide 4.0

No contributing guide or governance files found

  • Development Status classifier >= Beta
◈ Medium Type Annotations 5.0

Partial type annotation coverage

  • 158 type-annotated function signatures detected in source
✦ High Multiple Contributors 10.0

Active multi-contributor project

  • 7 unique contributor(s) across 59 commits in P403n1x87/austin-tui
  • Active community — 5 or more distinct contributors

🔬 Heuristic Checks

✓ Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

✓ Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

✓ Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

✓ Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

✓ Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

✓ Registered Email Domain

Email domain looks legitimate: gmail.com>

✓ Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

✓ Git Repository History

Repository P403n1x87/austin-tui appears legitimate

⚠ Maintainer History score 4.0

2 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
✓ Known CVE Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.

💡 AI App Starter Prompt

Use this prompt to build a project with austin-tui 
Create a real-time system monitoring tool using the Python package 'austin-tui'. This tool will allow users to monitor their system's CPU usage, memory usage, running processes, and network activity in a terminal interface similar to the Unix utility 'top'. The application should provide an intuitive way to navigate through different monitoring views and filter out specific processes based on user-defined criteria such as process name, PID, or resource consumption thresholds.

Steps to develop this application:
1. Install the 'austin-tui' package and familiarize yourself with its core functionalities.
2. Design the main menu that allows users to switch between various monitoring screens (CPU, Memory, Processes, Network).
3. Implement the real-time data fetching logic using 'austin-tui' to display live updates of system metrics.
4. Add filtering options for each screen to enable users to focus on specific aspects of system performance.
5. Integrate keybindings for navigation and interaction within the application.
6. Test the application thoroughly under different system loads to ensure responsiveness and accuracy.
7. Document the setup process and how to use the tool effectively.

Suggested Features:
- Ability to sort processes by CPU or memory usage.
- Option to highlight processes that exceed predefined thresholds.
- Support for multiple sorting criteria on the same screen.
- Customizable refresh interval for smoother performance under heavy load.
- Detailed process information view including open files, threads, and environment variables.

The 'austin-tui' package is utilized primarily for rendering the user interface and managing the display of real-time system data. It provides the necessary tools to create a dynamic and responsive terminal interface that updates continuously based on system events and statistics.

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