DepZero: Building a Zero-Dependency Dependency Intelligence Engine in 72 Hours
How Team CR7 built a static AST analysis tool that audits imports, maps call sites, and suggests realistic Python standard-library migrations without installing a single external package.
Project at a Glance
1. The Irony of the Blank Canvas
There is a particular kind of quiet panic that sets in during the opening hour of a hackathon when your first instinct is to run pip install and you suddenly remember that you are strictly forbidden from doing so. When the three of us—Anant, Ahil, and Dhanvin—sat down for Zero Dependency 2026, the constraints established by Hackathon Raptors were absolute: standard library only, no third-party runtime packages, no frameworks, zero pip dependencies, and the entire project had to build and execute cleanly with a single documented command.
