check_package_provenance

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Checks whether a package version was published with npm's own Sigstore-backed publish provenance (`npm publish --provenance`), and cross-checks that provenance against reality rather than just reporting its presence. Three checks: (1) parses the SLSA build attestation (declared source repo, commit, builder identity, GitHub Actions run URL) and flags a builder that isn't GitHub-hosted, or an attested source repo that doesn't match package.json's own `repository` field; (2) when this version LACKS provenance, checks whether most peer packages (same npm scope, or same maintainer for an unscoped name) DO have it — a package that's the odd one out in an org that otherwise always publishes from CI is a real anomaly, not proof of malice; (3) fetches package.json from the source repository at the exact attested commit (or a best-effort matching git tag when no provenance/commit is available) and diffs its install-lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall/prepare) and dependency names against what's actually in the published tarball — this is the single highest-signal check here, since a script or dependency that exists on npm but was never committed is exactly the pattern of a stolen-npm-token publish that bypasses CI (the event-stream/ua-parser-js incident shape). This is a heuristic, structural check: it does NOT cryptographically re-verify the Sigstore bundle (Fulcio cert chain, Rekor inclusion proof) — it trusts that npm's registry already refused to accept a publish that failed that verification, and checks the CONTENT of what the registry reports instead. Most packages don't use --provenance yet, so its bare absence is never scored on its own — only an org-norm anomaly or an actual source mismatch is. Use get_package/get_package_version first for basic package info; use this specifically to assess publish-integrity risk.