Depsly is a local-first dependency decision CLI for JavaScript/TypeScript projects.

It helps you answer:

• What dependencies actually matter?
• What should I review first?
• Why is this transitive package even here?
• What happens if I remove something?

🧠 Why Depsly

Most dependency tools focus on:

• vulnerabilities
• compliance
• audit reports

Depsly focuses on:

Decision-making

It combines:

• dependency graph analysis
• structural impact simulation
• feasibility-aware recommendations
• saved scan history and comparison

So you can decide where to spend your time.

✨ What Depsly Does

• Builds a full dependency graph from package-lock.json
• Analyzes structural risk (depth, fanout, transitive exposure)
• Ranks dependencies by impact × actionability
• Explains why transitive dependencies exist
• Simulates structural impact of removing packages
• Exports normalized recommendation scans as JSON
• Saves scans locally for history and comparison
• Generates an interactive HTML dependency explorer with tree, path, and graph views
• Runs entirely locally (no code upload required)

⚡ Install

Recommended (pipx)

If needed:

pipx install --python python3.11 depsly

Alternative (pip)

🚀 Quick Start

Analyze your dependency graph

depsly analyze package-lock.json

JSON export:

depsly analyze package-lock.json --json

Get prioritized recommendations

depsly recommend package-lock.json

JSON export:

depsly recommend package-lock.json --json

Trace why a package exists

depsly trace package-lock.json @babel/core@7.29.0

JSON export:

depsly trace package-lock.json @babel/core@7.29.0 --json

Preview structural impact of removal

depsly simulate-remove package-lock.json eslint@9.39.4

JSON export:

depsly simulate-remove package-lock.json eslint@9.39.4 --json

Save and compare scans over time

depsly save-scan package-lock.json
depsly list-scans --project frontend
depsly compare-scans ~/.depsly/scans/frontend-2026-04-11T10-15-43Z.json ~/.depsly/scans/frontend-2026-04-12T09-20-00Z.json

Open the dependency graph in your browser

depsly graph-html package-lock.json

The HTML report now opens in an Explorer-first surface:

• Explorer view for a readable collapsible dependency tree
• Graph view for neighborhood or full-graph relationship inspection
• Path from root in the sidebar to explain why a package exists
• Search, keyboard pan/zoom, and box-zoom controls for graph inspection

🧪 Example Output

Depsly Recommendations
Project: frontend
Packages analyzed: 204

1. eslint@9.39.4
   Action: REVIEW
   Actionability: MEDIUM
   Reason confidence: HIGH
   Impact: 35%
   Classification: Direct (root dev dependency)

   Why:
     - Direct dependency from root devDependencies
     - Structural impact: 35% (71 packages). Verify whether this dependency is still required

🧭 How to Read the Output

Action

What Depsly suggests:

• REVIEW → investigate before changing
• REMOVE → strong candidate to remove
• TRACE_UPSTREAM → change parent dependency instead
• DEFER → low priority

Actionability

How easy it is to change:

• HIGH → easy to modify
• MEDIUM → moderate effort
• LOW → difficult or risky

Impact

Percentage of your dependency graph affected.

Reason confidence

How strong the structural signal is:

• HIGH → direct + clear signals
• MEDIUM → inferred from structure
• LOW → limited information

🔁 Typical Workflow

analyze → recommend → trace → simulate-remove
                 ↓
              save-scan → list-scans → compare-scans
                 ↓
              graph-html

⚠️ Important

Structural analysis only.
Does not guarantee install, build, or runtime correctness.

🔐 Why Local-First Matters

• No source code upload
• No account required
• No rate limits
• Fully deterministic

🎯 Philosophy

Depsly is not a scanner.

It is a:

Dependency decision support system

📚 Docs

Run the CLI help to explore all commands and options:

For command-specific help:

depsly analyze --help
depsly recommend --help
depsly trace --help
depsly simulate-remove --help
depsly save-scan --help
depsly list-scans --help
depsly compare-scans --help
depsly graph-html --help

Example:

depsly recommend package-lock.json

🚧 Status

Early release (v0.1.11)

Core features are stable:

• analyze
• analyze --json
• recommend
• recommend --json
• trace
• trace --json
• simulate-remove
• simulate-remove --json
• save-scan
• list-scans
• compare-scans
• graph-html Explorer-first HTML report with collapsible tree, path view, and neighborhood graph
• telemetry Opt-in anonymous command-level usage telemetry with local queueing, batch flush, and reference ingest/reporting tooling
• scripts/scan_repos.py batch workflow

💬 Feedback

If you try Depsly on your project, I’d love to hear:

• what felt useful
• what felt off
• what you expected but didn’t see

Email: info+depsly@convologix.com or open an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/sshiraz/depsly

Even a quick note or screenshot is incredibly helpful.

I read every message.

🏁 Summary

Depsly helps you move from:

“I have 200 dependencies…”

to:

“Here’s exactly what I should look at first.”