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 [![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/chihaya/chihaya?status.svg "GoDoc")](https://godoc.org/github.com/chihaya/chihaya)
 [![IRC Channel](https://img.shields.io/badge/freenode-%23clair-blue.svg "IRC Channel")](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=clair)
 
+![Simple Clair Diagram](img/simple_diagram.png)
+
 Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in [AppC](https://github.com/appc/spec) and [Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/image/spec/v1.md) containers.
 
 Clair imports vulnerability data from a known set of sources and indexes the contents of container images in order to produce a list of vulnerabilities that threaten a container.
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 [rpm]: http://www.rpm.org
 
 
+### Custom Data Sources
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+In addition to the default data sources, Clair has been designed in a way that allows extension without forking the project.
+*Fetchers*, which are Go packages that implement the fetching of upstream vulnerability data, are registered in [init()] similar to drivers for Go's standard [database/sql] package.
+A fetcher can live in its own repository and custom versions of clair can contain a small patch that adds the import statements of the desired fetchers in `main.go`.
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+[init()]: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#init
+[database/sql]: https://godoc.org/database/sql
+
 ## Related Links
 
 - [Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3oBAgjnkU) and [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1toUKgqLyy1b-pZlDgxONLduiLmt2yaLR0GliBB7b3L0/pub?start=false&loop=false&slide=id.p) @ ContainerDays NYC 2015
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