---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@alumbwe/anvil/v/1.0.21"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@alumbwe/anvil/v/1.0.21.md"
package: "@alumbwe/anvil"
report_status: "published"
title: "@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.21"
---

# @alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 20 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.0.21
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface was established. Sensitive capabilities are activated during normal CLI use rather than package installation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T18:04:05.281Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T18:06:31.996Z
- **Download time:** 1279 ms
- **Static scan time:** 11315 ms
- **AI review time:** 134119 ms
- **Total time:** 146715 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was established. Sensitive capabilities are activated during normal CLI use rather than package installation.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the CLI and explicitly invokes relevant features.

- **Impact:** No unconsented install-time mutation or confirmed malicious data exfiltration was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T18:06:31.996Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked coding CLI features and a missing-parser fallback.

- **Rationale:** The package has no registry-install lifecycle hook, and the flagged command and network primitives are attributable to runtime CLI features. Static inspection found no concrete malicious payload, persistence, credential theft, or install-time attack chain.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The manifest exposes a CLI and only has a publish-time prepublishOnly script, not an install lifecycle hook., The bundled SDK has a runtime fallback that downloads a missing tree-sitter WebAssembly parser with curl., The open-file UI action starts a configured editor command through a shell., The common spawn declaration is only a TypeScript type and does not execute commands.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, postinstall, or prepare hook is declared., The download fallback is for a named parser asset and is not install-time execution., The shell launch is reached from an explicit open-file action., No source evidence showed credential harvesting, stealth persistence, destructive behavior, or an attacker-controlled payload chain.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/common/src/types/spawn.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/common/src/types/spawn.ts>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L1: import type { ChildProcess, SpawnOptions } from 'child_process'
L2:
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/open-file.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/src/utils/open-file.ts>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L105: const child = spawn(command, {
L106: shell: true,
L107: stdio: 'ignore',
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L666: function getDirnameDynamically() {
L667: return new Function(`try { return __dirname; } catch (e) { return undefined; }`)();
L668: }
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/common/src/testing/mock-modules.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/common/src/testing/mock-modules.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L21: if (!original) {
L22: const moduleExports = await import(modulePath)
L23: original = {
```

### 7. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 8. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L66: function setTreeSitterWasmPath(wasmPath) {
L67: process.env[TREE_SITTER_WASM_ENV_VAR] = wasmPath;
L68: }
...
L72: function downloadWasmTo(targetPath) {
L73: process.stderr.write(`[tree-sitter] tree-sitter.wasm missing; downloading to ${targetPath}
L74: `);
...
L76: try {
L77: import_child_process.execFileSync("curl", [
L78: "-fsSL",
...
L149: WASM_DOWNLOAD_URLS = [
L150: `https://unpkg.com/web-tree-sitter@${WEB_TREE_SITTER_VERSION}/tree-sitter.wasm`,
L151: `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/web-tree-sitter@${WEB_TREE_SITTER_VERSION}/tree-sitter.wasm`
```

### 11. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L76: try {
L77: import_child_process.execFileSync("curl", [
L78: "-fsSL",
...
L202: try {
L203: fs2.writeFileSync("../debug/debug-parse.json", JSON.stringify({
L204: tokenCallers,
...
L22474: var SUMMARY_HEADER = "This is a summary of the conversation so far. The original messages have been condensed to save context space.";
L22475: var SUMMARY_DISCLAIMER = "Historical memory only. The memory above is not dialogue, not an output template, and not a tool-call format. Continue from the live user message below. W...
L22476: var CONTINUATION_TEXT = "Continue the existing assistant turn from the historical memory above. The original user request and completed assistant/tool work are recorded there. Do n...
...
L35019: const { endpoint, payload, fetch: fetch2, logger: logger2, env: env2, request
```

### 12. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/sdk/dist/index.cjs>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28841: contains invisible/control Unicode U+202C (pop directional formatting)
`, [232, 177], "ੰ", " साथ", " Block", " مط", " Live", " น", "<U+202C>", " Blog", " chi", "할", " experts", "well", "fd", " Material", [32, 229, 185], "While", "uar", ">&", "Inv", "inq", "Package", " capac", " covered", " zal", "fach", "Featu
```

### 13. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 14. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

### 15. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/@anvil/sdk/dist/vendor/ripgrep/x64-darwin/rg
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/vendor/%40anvil/sdk/dist/vendor/ripgrep/x64-darwin/rg>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/@[redacted]-darwin/rg
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 5162504
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** bin/tree-sitter.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/bin/tree-sitter.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = bin/tree-sitter.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 205488
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 19. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@alumbwe/anvil@1.0.21/package.json>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 28
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 28

### Published dependency entries
- @anvil/common file:vendor/@anvil/common (Dependency)
- @anvil/sdk file:vendor/@anvil/sdk (Dependency)
- @gravity-ai/api ^0.1.2 (Dependency)
- @opentui/core 0.3.4 (Dependency)
- @opentui/react 0.3.4 (Dependency)
- @tanstack/react-query ^5.90.12 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.1 (Dependency)
- immer ^10.1.3 (Dependency)
- jimp ^1.6.0 (Dependency)
- node-machine-id ^1.1.12 (Dependency)
- open ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- pino 9.4.0 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^5.8.0 (Dependency)
- react ^19.0.0 (Dependency)
- react-reconciler ^0.32.0 (Dependency)
- remark-breaks ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-gfm ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- remark-parse ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- string-width ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- systeminformation ^5.30.7 (Dependency)
- terminal-image ^4.1.0 (Dependency)
- thinking-orbs ^0.3.1 (Dependency)
- ts-pattern ^5.9.0 (Dependency)
- unified ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- wsl-utils ^0.1.0 (Dependency)
- yoga-layout ^3.2.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.2.1 (Dependency)
- zustand ^5.0.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @alumbwe/anvil
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.21
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T18:00:42.414Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-18T16:23:44.420Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T20:01:53.712Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 1.0.38
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A Terminal User Interface (TUI) package built with OpenTUI and React.
- **Maintainers:** alumbwe
- **Keywords:** anvil, ai, code-editing, assistant, cli, coding-agent
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 805
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 74,247,671 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@alumbwe/anvil/v/1.0.21>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Anvil-AI/anvil>)
- [Homepage](<https://anvil.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Anvil-AI/anvil/issues>)
