Slither Analysis GitHub Action

reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and enhancing the overall reliability of blockchain applications.

Git Action link - https://github.com/0chain/nft-dstorage-core/actions/workflows/slither.yaml

Workflow File - https://github.com/0chain/nft-dstorage-core/blob/main/.github/workflows/slither.yaml

Introduction

The Slither Analysis GitHub Action is a powerful tool that enables you to automatically analyze your Solidity smart contracts for security vulnerabilities and coding issues as part of your Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. By integrating Slither into your GitHub Actions workflow, you can ensure that your Ethereum smart contracts are rigorously examined for potential problems with every code change.

This documentation provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up and use the Slither Analysis GitHub Action.

Prerequisites

Before you can use the Slither Analysis GitHub Action, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place:

1. Solidity Smart Contracts: You should have Solidity smart contract source files in your GitHub repository that you want to analyze.

2. GitHub Repository: Your smart contract project should be hosted on GitHub.

3. GitHub Actions: Familiarity with GitHub Actions is recommended, as this documentation assumes you have a basic understanding of how GitHub Actions workflows are created and configured.

GitHub Actions Workflow

This Action run whenever code is merged in main branch or any PR is raised.

This GitHub Action is scheduled to run every day, but if you want to manually start it, click on Run Workflow and choose the necessary branch from Use workflow from.

Viewing Slither Analysis Results

After the GitHub Actions workflow is executed, you can view the Slither analysis results in the Actions tab of GitHub repository. Any issues or vulnerabilities detected by Slither will be reported in the workflow run's logs, providing details on each issue, its severity, and location in the code.

Conclusion

Integrating the Slither Analysis GitHub Action into CI pipeline is a proactive way to ensure the security and quality of your Ethereum smart contracts. By automating the analysis process, you can catch potential issues early in the development cycle, reducing the risk of vulnerabilities and enhancing the overall reliability of blockchain applications.