# Should General have a guideline or rule preventing registration of vibe-coded packages?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-general-have-a-guideline-or-rule-preventing-registration-of-vibe-coded-packages/133205>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** general-registry\
**Created:** [October 16, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-general-have-a-guideline-or-rule-preventing-registration-of-vibe-coded-packages/133205 "2025-10-16T12:32:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![mihalybaci](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mihalybaci/32/13528_2.png) [@mihalybaci](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mihalybaci)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/should-general-have-a-guideline-or-rule-preventing-registration-of-vibe-coded-packages/133205/47 "2025-10-17T12:17:13Z")

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It occurs to me that there is one major feature missing from the Julia package manager that others (conda, pip, etc.) have, and that is a built-in `search`. How do people discover packages currently? Well, I go to the [juliapackages.com](https://juliapackages.com/) website and search. There are even sorting options. What if users could do that with `Pkg`?

Something like

```julia-auto
pkg> search tensor # search all package names/readme files for the word "tensor"

# it could even add a sort feature like the website!

pkg> search tensor --sort github_stars

```

If a hypothetical `pkg search` feature defaulted to sorting by Github stars (or # of downloads), then users are (hopefully) steered towards higher quality packages and the need for a curated registry may be mitigated somewhat. Also, vibe coded packages would automatically appear at the bottom until enough users gave them stars/downloads, which (hopefully) would show they are decent.

Also this functionality already exists in the [juliapackages.com](http://juliapackages.com) website! So maybe it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to get it working in `Pkg` (he says knowing nothing about pkg internals)? The best part of this as a potential solution is that it is purely a code solution and does not require an individual judgement call on a particular package.

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