AI coding agents can select and install large dependency trees faster than humans can review them, while traditional security controls typically identify risks only later at build, registry, or deployment. This makes remediation more expensive and leaves a gap around who selected a dependency, where it came from, and whether it can be trusted.

Clean Libraries addresses this gap by making the dependency decision at resolution time, before installation. It verifies origin, behaviour, and equivalence, applies the same policy across IDEs, CLI, AI agents and CI/CD, and returns signed verdicts with an auditable evidence trail. The goal is to move dependency security from discovering problems after they enter the build to preventing untrusted components from entering in the first place.