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Developer publishes triage-lens to PyPI, automated checks catch 3 pre-release leaks

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A developer building an AI-assisted vulnerability triage CLI tool called triage-lens published it to PyPI, making it installable via a single pip command. Before the fourth release, automated pre-release checks flagged three issues that manual review had missed in prior runs: test files bundled into the distribution package, a private repository name embedded in a published artifact, and broken relative links in the README. Notably, the repository name leak originated from the very check designed to detect it, since the check had the name hardcoded in its own source. All three issues were resolved before the package went live. After publishing, the developer also discovered that PyPI bakes the README into the artifact at release time, meaning a post-publish fix on GitHub does not update the live package page, prompting a minor version re-release.

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