---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@awareness.market/local"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@awareness.market/local/report.md"
package: "@awareness.market/local"
report_status: "published"
title: "@awareness.market/local@0.22.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.22.1"
---

# @awareness.market/local@0.22.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 17 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.22.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The daemon sends runtime telemetry by default to the package’s own service, while the README does not clearly disclose that collection. The data is restricted to ordinary event and machine metadata, so this warrants a warning rather than a malicious verdict.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T02:05:52.773Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T02:06:57.280Z
- **Download time:** 1267 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1986 ms
- **AI review time:** 61253 ms
- **Total time:** 64507 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Daemon startup sends default-on usage telemetry to the package’s service without clear disclosure in the README.

- **Trigger:** Starting the daemon with telemetry not explicitly disabled in configuration.

- **Impact:** The service receives anonymous or pseudonymous usage and machine metadata; no credential or file-content exfiltration was identified.

- **Evidence paths:** src/core/telemetry.mjs, src/daemon.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T02:06:57.280Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Telemetry records whitelisted events and metadata, queues them locally, then periodically POSTs batches to the configured endpoint, which defaults to Awareness Market.

- **Rationale:** The daemon sends runtime telemetry by default to the package’s own service, while the README does not clearly disclose that collection. The data is restricted to ordinary event and machine metadata, so this warrants a warning rather than a malicious verdict.

- **Files touched:** src/core/telemetry.mjs, src/daemon.mjs, .awareness/telemetry-queue.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://awareness.market/api/v1/telemetry/events

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Daemon startup enables telemetry unless the user explicitly disables it in config., Telemetry batches are POSTed to the package’s default service endpoint at https://awareness.market/api/v1/telemetry/events., Startup events include version, OS, Node version, architecture, and locale; telemetry also attaches an installation ID.

- **Evidence against:** Telemetry event types and property keys are whitelisted, limiting the data collected., The installation ID is random or derived by hashing a device ID with a fixed salt., The telemetry endpoint belongs to the package’s own service, and the collected fields are ordinary usage and machine metadata.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @awareness.market/local@0.22.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @awareness.market/local@0.22.1 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install-transformers.mjs
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/awareness-local.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: 
L17: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L18: import fs from 'node:fs';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/cli.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // Wrapper to load the ESM entry point from CommonJS-compatible bin
L4: const { pathToFileURL } = require('node:url');
L5: const { join } = require('node:path');
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/awareness-local.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L438: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`);
L439: console.log(`  MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`);
L440: console.log(`  Dashboard:    http://localhost:${port}/`);
...
L443: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects.
L444: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n      const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n      const firs...
L445: --auto-update        Check npm every 5 min and roll forward safely (opt-in)
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/awareness-local.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L438: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`);
L439: console.log(`  MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`);
L440: console.log(`  Dashboard:    http://localhost:${port}/`);
...
L443: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects.
L444: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n      const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n      const firs...
L445: --auto-update        Check npm every 5 min and roll forward safely (opt-in)
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** src/daemon/api-handlers.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/src/daemon/api-handlers.mjs>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import path from 'node:path';
L3: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L4: 
...
L51: if (route === '/prompt/inject' && req.method === 'GET') {
L52: if (process.env.AWARENESS_PROMPT_INJECT_OPEN !== '1'
L53: && !(await isBridgeRequestTrusted(daemon, req))) {
...
L368: // Decision B · CSRF/origin allowlist. A browser capture on doubao.com sends
L369: // `Origin: https://www.doubao.com`; a native/curl client sends none. Only
L370: // localhost + the supported chat sites (and the product domain) may write.
...
L464: const raw = await readBody(req);
L465: body = raw ? JSON.parse(raw) : {};
L466: } catch (err) {
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/awareness-local.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> bin/awareness-local.mjs
L438: console.log(`Awareness Local daemon started (PID ${newPid || child.pid}, port ${port})`);
L439: console.log(`  MCP endpoint: http://localhost:${port}/mcp`);
L440: console.log(`  Dashboard:    http://localhost:${port}/`);
...
L443: // Auto-open dashboard only on the very first daemon start across all projects.
L444: // Use a global flag in ~/.awareness so new workspaces don"t keep re-opening the browser.\n      const globalAwarenessDir = path.join(os.homedir(), ".awareness");\n      const firs...
L445: --auto-update        Check npm every 5 min and roll forward safely (opt-in)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/awareness-local.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@awareness.market/local@0.22.1/bin/awareness-local.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10

### Published dependency entries
- @huggingface/transformers ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @noble/curves ^2.2.0 (Dependency)
- @noble/hashes ^2.2.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.8.0 (Dependency)
- ignore ^7.0.5 (Dependency)
- mammoth ^1.12.0 (Dependency)
- pdf-parse ^2.4.5 (Dependency)
- xlsx ^0.18.5 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @awareness.market/local
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.22.1
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T02:01:46.592Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-12T06:54:11.104Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T02:06:57.280Z
- **Known versions:** 15
- **Latest version:** 0.22.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Local-first memory for AI agents. Structured synthetic memory cards (decision / preference / risk), verifiable state history via ERC-8350, hybrid search. Runs offline, no account.
- **Author:** Everest An
- **Maintainers:** everestan
- **Keywords:** ai, agent, memory, local, mcp, claude, cursor, windsurf, awareness
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 142
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,647,227 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@awareness.market/local>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/everest-an/Awareness-Market>)
- [Homepage](<https://awareness.market/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/everest-an/Awareness-Market/issues>)