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How we vet products

You are being asked to install executable software from a stranger on the internet. That deserves a real explanation rather than a badge, so here is exactly what happens.

1. The seller is approved first

Nobody can upload anything until a person has reviewed their application. There is no path where an anonymous account publishes software to this marketplace.

2. Uploads go straight into quarantine

Files upload directly to private storage under a randomly generated identifier. They are not reachable by anyone — not by other sellers, not by buyers, not by our own web servers — until they clear review.

3. Scanning happens in a disposable sandbox

A throwaway container with no network access, no credentials, and no route to our database reads the file, analyses it, writes a result, and is destroyed. We check file types by content rather than by extension, validate archives against decompression bombs and path-traversal tricks, record cryptographic hashes, and extract code-signing metadata.

4. We never run your download

Analysis is entirely static. At no point does anyone — human or automated — execute, install, or load an uploaded plugin. Running unknown software to find out whether it is safe is not a security process.

5. A person makes the decision

Automated checks produce evidence and rank the queue. They do not approve anything. A named reviewer reads the findings and decides, and that decision is recorded against their account. Our tooling may summarise and prioritise, but it is never the final authority on whether software is safe.

6. Updates start the process over

An approved build is never silently replaced. Every upload creates a new immutable version that is scanned and reviewed again, so a seller cannot swap clean bytes for something else after approval.

Warning:

What this does not mean

No scanning process catches everything, and we will not pretend otherwise. These controls substantially reduce risk; they do not reduce it to zero. Keep backups, keep your system updated, and tell us immediately if something looks wrong — we can quarantine a product and notify affected buyers quickly.

Your privacy, and sellers’ intellectual property

We do not submit sellers’ files to public multi-engine scanning services. Doing so would leak unreleased work to third parties. Any future third-party scanning integration would require a documented privacy review and clear disclosure to sellers first.