Dependency Management for AI Powered-Development

Sonatype Guide gives your AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot or Gemini Code Assist the context it needs to build code that requires little maintenance and minimal rework. It connects AI coding assistants to Sonatype’s industry-leading open source intelligence so that every component suggestion and autonomous upgrade is backed by accurate, real-time security and quality data. Sonatype Guide further secures AI-driven development through autonomous dependency management, data intelligence, and governance by feeding verified component data and policy guidance directly into the AI code assistant’s suggestions. 

AI code assistants are powerful accelerators, but without guardrails, they can unintentionally introduce serious risks into your software. These tools generate code based on patterns and predictions, not on verified security or quality standards. As a result, they often suggest vulnerable, outdated, or even non-existent open source components, which can lead to rework, compliance issues, and exploitable flaws down the line. Sonatype Guide helps organizations put guardrails in place so that development teams can securely use AI in development. 

Sonatype Guide works with AI code assistants that implement the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Gemini Code Assistant, Claude Code, VSCode Copilot, Windsurf, IntelliJ with Junie, Kiro, Cursor, and Codex (IDE Plugin & CLI).  

LLMs excel at generating code but aren’t tuned to evaluate ecosystem health, security posture, or licensing nuances. LLMs or AI models are often trained on data that is six months to a year old. Sonatype bridges that gap with comprehensive AI dependency management, giving the AI code assistant real-time access to vulnerability intelligence to mitigate risk within AI-assisted coding builds. When your LLM has access to the best dependencies available, the result is high quality applications that breeze through security and QA reviews. 

Sonatype delivers the industry’s most comprehensive view of open source risk — combining full component data, secondary expansion data, and expert-curated vulnerability intelligence into a single, unified source of truth. Where others stop at basic CVE records, Sonatype goes deeper to map every component, dependency, and version to uncover hidden transitive risks and secondary impacts missed by traditional data feeds. Our intelligence blends proprietary research, automated machine learning, and human curation to ensure every data point is verified, contextualized, and actionable. The result: complete, precise, and early insight into vulnerabilities empowering developers and AI coding assistants to select the best components from the start. 

Yes, Sonatype’s dependency management MCP server is free to use. It is part of Sonatype Guide. Teams can easily roll it out across tools by creating a free Sonatype account. To use the MCP server, simply publish a common MCP configuration and system prompt through your IDE or assistant management.