Names Can Hurt: Spotting Slopsquatting Risks Caused by Package Name Hallucinations in Local Coding LLMs

arXiv:2608.23897 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

Comments: 14 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables. Code and data at https://github.com/sargamsahu1011/package-hallucination-detector

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22087562

Code: https://github.com/sargamsahu1011/package-hallucination-detector

Project page: https://langchainai.github.io/langgraph

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Hallucination — 27× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transferability — 8× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Homogeneity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs

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