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npm clerk @1.5.0

score
0.7 high
flagged 2026-06-12 11:55
signals by category
topology 2 enrichment 1

maintainers added:

package profile →

Signals fired

signalweightrationale
topology
dist_tag_anomaly 0.5 dist-tags.latest=1.5.0 but max published is 2.0.1-canary.f95eca2
shared_repo_different_publisher 0.9 repo 'git+https://github.com/clerk/cli.git' also claimed by 8 package(s) under different publishers: ['npm/@clerk/cli-linux-x64', 'npm/@clerk/cli-darwin-x64', 'npm/@clerk/cli-win32-arm64'] ...
enrichment
repo_too_new_for_version_history 0.7 claimed repo created 120d ago but package has 188 versions (expect >= 136d for that history)

Prior profile (what it deviated from)

{
  "had_install_script": false,
  "maintainers": [
    "colinclerk",
    "bkalow",
    "dominic-clerk"
  ],
  "versions": 186
}

Evidence (package doc at flag time)

{
  "dependencies_count": 0,
  "dist": {
    "integrity": "sha512-oVlCmlaPEXwlI64xa5xuwkl4HUjZlDIRm364F3im4EJXixisEFRuhyTwxinhGPFa8OBQyMAWGewfQQZEWYxXog==",
    "tarball": "https://registry.npmjs.org/clerk/-/clerk-1.5.0.tgz",
    "unpackedSize": 6403
  },
  "dist-tags": {
    "canary": "2.0.1-canary.c18409c",
    "latest": "1.5.0",
    "snapshot": "2.0.1-snapshot.9f8329d"
  },
  "latest_version": "1.5.0",
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "email": "colin@clerk.dev",
      "name": "colinclerk"
    },
    {
      "email": "hello@brycekalow.name",
      "name": "bkalow"
    },
    {
      "email": "dominic@clerk.dev",
      "name": "dominic-clerk"
    }
  ],
  "num_versions": 188,
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://github.com/clerk/cli.git"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "prepublishOnly": "echo 'Use scripts/releaser instead' && exit 1"
  },
  "signal_details": {
    "dist_tag_anomaly": "dist-tags.latest=1.5.0 but max published is 2.0.1-canary.f95eca2",
    "repo_too_new_for_version_history": "claimed repo created 120d ago but package has 188 versions (expect >= 136d for that history)",
    "shared_repo_different_publisher": "repo 'git+https://github.com/clerk/cli.git' also claimed by 8 package(s) under different publishers: ['npm/@clerk/cli-linux-x64', 'npm/@clerk/cli-darwin-x64', 'npm/@clerk/cli-win32-arm64'] ..."
  },
  "time": {
    "created": "2011-10-08T00:35:10.133Z",
    "modified": "2026-06-12T16:55:14.692Z"
  }
}