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slimtoolkit/slim

Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/slimtoolkit/slim · Go · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

66/100

  • Activity 95
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4011
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 31
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

23408 stars · 840 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

SlimToolkit is a CLI tool that inspects, optimizes, and debugs container images, minifying them by up to 30x without changing the application inside. It also generates security profiles (seccomp, AppArmor) and provides commands like xray, lint, build, and debug for container workflows.

Use cases

  • shrink my docker image size
  • generate seccomp profile for my container
  • analyze what's inside a container image
  • make my container more secure
  • lint my dockerfile
  • debug a running container

When to choose

  • you want to dramatically reduce container image size without rebuilding your app
  • you need security profiles like seccomp or AppArmor generated automatically
  • you want to inspect and understand container image contents
  • you're optimizing images for faster deploys and smaller attack surface

When to avoid

  • you need to modify application code or dependencies inside the image
  • your container runs highly dynamic workloads that static analysis can't trace
  • you need a GUI-based container management tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

container-runtime security developer-tools deployment security developer-tools cli go docker-image-minification container-optimization seccomp apparmor image-analysis cncf-sandbox containers devops linux macos docker

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