Do AI Coding Assistants Check Before They Install? A Pre-Registered Demand-Side Audit of Trust Signals in the Research Software Supply Chain

arXiv:2609.07754 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-09-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-09-07

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: 18 pages, 11 figures, 8 tables. Pre-registered protocol deposited 2026-08-22 (10.5281/zenodo.22062503); tooling v0.2.1 at 10.5281/zenodo.22544144; data at 10.5281/zenodo.22546062

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