Add Aikido Safe Chain for malware protection in CI/CD

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🔒 Security Enhancement: Aikido Safe Chain Integration

This PR adds Aikido Safe Chain to our GitHub Actions workflows to protect against malicious packages during dependency installation.

What is Aikido Safe Chain?

Aikido Safe Chain is a free security tool that prevents developers from installing malware through package managers. It wraps around package manager commands and verifies packages against Aikido Intel - Open Source Threat Intelligence before installation.

Key Features

• ✅ Free to use - No tokens or authentication required
• 🛡️ Malware detection - Blocks malicious packages before installation
• 🔍 Threat intelligence - Uses open source threat data to identify risks
• 📦 Multi-package manager support - npm, pnpm, yarn, npx, pnpx
• 🚀 Node.js 18+ compatible

Implementation

Created a new workflow .github/workflows/safe-chain.yml that:

1. Sets up the environment - Node.js 18 and pnpm 8 (consistent with existing workflows)
2. Installs Aikido Safe Chain - Globally via npm install -g @aikidosec/safe-chain
3. Configures CI protection - Runs safe-chain setup-ci to wrap package manager commands
4. Protects dependency installation - pnpm install runs with malware scanning enabled

The workflow follows the same structure as existing workflows (test.yml, build.yml, lint.yml) and runs on:

• Push to main branch
• Pull requests to main branch

Note on pnpm Support

Currently, Aikido Safe Chain offers limited scanning for pnpm (scans install command arguments). Full dependency tree scanning for pnpm is coming soon according to the official roadmap.

References

• 📚 Official Documentation
• 🔗 GitHub Repository
• 🔐 Aikido Intel - Threat Intelligence

Testing

The workflow will run automatically on this PR to verify the integration works correctly.

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Add Aikido Safe Chain for malware protection in CI/CD</issue_title>
<issue_description># Overview
Please apply the following PR changes to this project as part of the security measures against npm malware.

• feat: Add Aikido Safe Chain for malware protection in CI/CD nsx#3559

🔒 Security Enhancement: Aikido Safe Chain Integration

This PR adds Aikido Safe Chain to our GitHub Actions workflows to protect against malicious packages during dependency installation.

What is Aikido Safe Chain?

Aikido Safe Chain is a free security tool that prevents developers from installing malware through package managers. It wraps around package manager commands and verifies packages against Aikido Intel - Open Sources Threat Intelligence before installation.

Key Features

• ✅ Free to use - No tokens or authentication required
• 🛡️ Malware detection - Blocks malicious packages before installation
• 🔍 Threat intelligence - Uses open source threat data to identify risks
• 📦 Multi-package manager support - npm, pnpm, yarn, npx, pnpx
• 🚀 Node.js 18+ compatible

Current Implementation

• Created new workflow: .github/workflows/safe-chain.yml
• Installs @aikidosec/safe-chain globally in CI environment
• Runs safe-chain setup-ci before dependency installation
• Protects pnpm install commands from malicious packages

Note on pnpm Support

Currently, Aikido Safe Chain offers limited scanning for pnpm (scans install command arguments). Full dependency tree scanning for pnpm is coming soon according to the official roadmap.

References

• 📚 Official Documentation
• 🔗 GitHub Repository

Testing

The workflow will run automatically on this PR to verify the integration works correctly.</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

Fixes #1478

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