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 # uv-secure
 
 Scan your uv.lock file for dependencies with known vulnerabilities
+
+## Related Work and Motivation
+
+I created this package as I wanted a dependency vulnerability scanner but I wasn't
+completely happy with the options that seemed available. I use
+[uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) and wanted something that works with uv.lock files but
+neither of the main package options I found fitted my requirements:
+
+- [pip-audit](https://pypi.org/project/pip-audit/) only works with requirements.txt
+  files but even if you convert a uv.lock file to a requirements.txt file, pip-audit
+  wants to create a whole virtual environment to check all transitive dependencies (but
+  that should be completely unnecessary when the lock file already contains the full
+  dependencies).
+- [safety](https://pypi.org/project/safety/) also doesn't work with uv.lock file out of
+  the box, it does apparently work statically without needing to build a virtual
+  environment but it does require you to create an account on the
+  [safety site](https://platform.safetycli.com/). They have some limited free account
+  but require a paid account to use seriously. If you already have a safety account
+  though there is a [uv-audit](https://pypi.org/project/uv-audit/) package that wraps
+  safety to support scanning uv.lock files.
+- [Python Security PyCharm Plugin](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/13609-python-security)
+  Lastly I was inspired by Anthony Shaw's Python Security plugin - which does CVE
+  dependency scanning within PyCharm.
+
+I build uv-secure because I wanted a CLI tool I could run with pre-commit. Statically
+analyse the uv.lock file without needing to create a virtual environment, and finally
+doesn't require you to create (and pay for) an account with any service.