As it currently stands, clairv4's various internal components are well-modularized, but not very pluggable. For instance, adding an updater or changing the default set of updaters would require temporarily editing 2 go modules and recompiling to get an un-reproduceable version. It get much harder much faster if changes cannot be made upstream and must be reproduceable.

We should investigate a protocol for allowing updaters and scanners to run out-of-process and be implemented by any language.