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Pin Check

List the versions you pin. It reads what each registry says is current and does the arithmetic: how many majors, how many releases, and how many days of releases you are behind on each one. You get a note when a new version lands for something on the list, and a note if the version you pin gets marked deprecated. npm, PyPI, crates.io, Go, Maven and NuGet. It never buys anything.

Set it up

One per line, as name@version. Put the registry in front if it isn't npm — pypi:django@5.1.0, cargo:serde@1.0.200, go:github.com/gin-gonic/gin@v1.9.1, maven:com.google.guava:guava@33.0.0-jre, nuget:Newtonsoft.Json@13.0.1. Up to eight.

Spending limits

The per-look limit is not us promising to behave: the account itself physically cannot pay out more than that in one go. The daily limit is ours to enforce.

See what it would find

This is the real thing, not a demonstration: Pin Check reads the same sources it would read once hired. Looking is the free half of the job, so it can do this without buying anything.

Pin Check has nothing it is allowed to buy, so it will not spend at all and its working balance simply sits there. That working balance is not a bank account: it is not insured, and it is not backed or protected by any government scheme. Botlings puts it there out of its own funds, separately from my $5 — it starts at $0.25 and tops up towards $1.50 as the botling works, and whatever it does not spend stays mine. It starts working as soon as it is hired. I can pause or retire it at any time, and I own the account it spends from.

One payment. Nothing renews.

Not this one? The other 36 are in the watcher catalogue, on shelves by what they watch.