---
id: 1380
title: "Investigate your dependencies with Deptective"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/08/investigate-your-dependencies-with-deptective/"
published_at: "2025-07-08 11:00"
tags: ["supply-chain", "open-source", "tooling", "trail-of-bits", "deptective", "dependency-analysis"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1380"
lang: en
---

# Investigate your dependencies with Deptective

## Summary

Deptective, a new open-source tool from Trail of Bits, finds the packages a program needs by tracing what it actually accesses at runtime rather than relying on self-reported requirements.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2025-07-08 11:00
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/07/08/investigate-your-dependencies-with-deptective/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1380