Arol
Runs locally · your code never leaves your machine

Your stack has expiration dates.

Vendors retire APIs, models, and auth methods on a schedule — and AI agents keep shipping yesterday’s. Arol finds every one you use, with the exact file and line, before the sunset date does.

arol - scan
$ npx arol-ai scan
arol · local deprecation scan
Scanned 1,284 files · 2 APIs detected
dataset: updated today
⚠ 2 deprecations found (2 high, 0 medium, 0 low)
OpenAI · Assistants API (beta)HIGH
references a deprecated API · sunsets 2026-08-26 (in 40 days)
found in:
src/agents/run.ts:42beta.assistants
src/agents/run.ts:88beta.threads
OpenAI · GPT-4 family (API shutdown)HIGH
references a deprecated model · sunsets 2026-10-23 (in 98 days)
src/llm/client.ts:13"gpt-4-turbo"
──────────────────────────────────────────────
⚠ These break on fixed dates. Get alerted before the next one hits you → arol.ai
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This keeps happening

APIs die on a schedule

February 2026 alone: OpenAI deprecated GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and o4-mini, and scheduled the Assistants API shutdown. These are the next sunsets on the calendar — pulled live from the same dataset the scanner runs on, not marketing copy.

OpenAI · OpenAI models shut down July 23, 2026
2026-07-232d
OpenAI · Assistants API
2026-08-2636d
Google Gemini · Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash / Flash-Lite
2026-10-1687d
OpenAI · OpenAI models shut down October 23, 2026
2026-10-2394d

If your code references any of these, the countdown is yours too. npx arol-ai scan tells you in thirty seconds.

Coverage depth

What it catches

Whether your AI assistant wrote it last night or a teammate wrote it three years ago: dead model strings, removed SDK calls, sunset endpoints, legacy auth flows. Matched against real usage — imports, call sites, quoted model ids — not just your lockfile.

openai.ChatCompletion.createremoved call syntax
"gpt-4-turbo", "claude-sonnet-4-…"retiring model strings
stripe.handleCardPayment()removed Stripe.js method
idCheckConfigurationName: "Phone Auth $"legacy DocuSign auth
aws-sdk (v2)end-of-support SDK line
hubspot lead-status writessurface going read-only

Process

How it works

1

Scan

Run the scanner locally or in CI — your code never leaves your environment. It finds every third-party API, model id, and SDK surface you actually use.

2

Match

Usage is checked against a continuously updated deprecation dataset — every entry carries the vendor's own notice as evidence, and a human approves every change.

3

Alert

Before something you depend on dies. Not a firehose — just “this breaks, on this date, at this file and line, here’s the fix.”

CI-ready: npx arol-ai scan exits non-zero only for real upcoming breaks — high severity or sunsets inside your window. Warn-only findings never block a deploy.

The gap

Nothing else watches the wire

Dependabot watches the packages in your lockfile. Nothing watches the live APIs you call over the wire — the model that retires, the auth method that quietly loses its fallback, the endpoint that 404s on a Tuesday. That’s the gap that pages you at 2am, and it’s the one we close.

arol - alertsPreview
OpenAI
Sunsetting

Assistants API

Sunsets Aug 26, 2026 · used in 3 files

View migration →
Stripe
API 2025-03 · ok

Coverage, live

What we watch

27 tracked deprecations · 12 vendors · last entry merged 3 days ago

Anthropic
AWS
Clerk
DocuSign
Google Gemini
HubSpot
LangChain
OpenAI
Resend
Stripe
Twilio
Vercel AI SDK

These numbers render from the scanner’s own dataset — the site can’t exaggerate them. Don’t see your vendor? Tell us; paying customers steer what gets added next.

arol - dashboardPreview
Monitored vendors13 tracked · 2 alerts
OpenAI

Assistants API · Aug 26

Stripe

All clear

Anthropic

All clear

Twilio

All clear

DocuSign

Legacy auth · Sep 30

AWS

All clear

The pipeline

Knowledge that ships itself

A deprecation scanner is only as good as yesterday’s data. Arol’s dataset maintains itself — and every entry carries its provenance.

01

Watch

A watcher diffs vendor changelogs, deprecation pages, and release notes every day. Silent doc edits don't stay silent.

02

Draft

When a page changes, an agent drafts the detection — dates, scope, patterns — with the vendor's own words quoted as evidence.

03

Review

A human approves every entry, and each one ships with tests proving it fires on real usage and never on the replacement API.

04

Learn

Your scanner picks up the new knowledge within 24 hours — no update, no new install, nothing to do.

Plans

The scanner is free. The vigilance is $99.

FreeFree forever

The full local scanner, free forever. Scan any repo, gate your CI on real upcoming breaks, auto-updated dataset included. No account, no network required, your code stays put.

$ npx arol-ai scan
Monitoring · $99/moEarly access

We remember your stack and email you when a sunset lands on it — with the repo, the date, and the migration path. Sign in, create a token, add it to CI. Two minutes.

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FAQ

Fair questions

What leaves my machine?

Nothing. Scanning is fully local and uploads zero bytes. The CLI downloads one public JSON file — the deprecation dataset, like antivirus definitions — and even that is optional (--offline). Your code, file names, and results never leave your environment.

How do you avoid false positives?

Detection keys on real usage, not package presence: patterns only fire in files that import the matching SDK, model ids only match inside quoted string literals, comments are stripped before matching, and findings that live only in test files are down-ranked and never fail CI.

Will it break my CI?

Only when something real is breaking. The exit code is non-zero solely for high-severity findings or sunsets inside your configured window (--within). Everything else prints as a warning and exits clean.

How fresh is the data?

A watcher diffs vendor lifecycle pages daily; changes become human-reviewed dataset entries with the vendor's notice quoted as evidence; your scanner picks them up within 24 hours of merge. The coverage numbers on this page render from that same dataset.

What's actually free?

The entire scanner, forever — including the auto-updating dataset and CI gating. $99/mo buys continuous monitoring: we remember what your repo depends on and alert you when new deprecations land on it, so you don't have to re-scan to find out.

One prevented incident pays for the year.

One missed deprecation is a production incident. Arol is $99/mo.