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@botbuddy/cli@1.63.29
BotBuddy — Swarm coordination CLI for multi-agent workflows
AI Security Review
scanned 7d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged process, network, credential, and persistence behaviors serve the CLI’s update, relay, and explicitly invoked staging-pool features. I found no install hook or automatic unrelated credential transfer.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Normal CLI use; staging-pool persistence requires an explicit install command.
Impact
No unrelated credential disclosure, unauthorized account action, or automatic persistence was identified.
Mechanism
The CLI checks npm for an update and sends wait-session credentials to the configured BotBuddy relay. Staging-pool installation writes local configuration and a launchd job after a human-only guard.
AI rationale
The flagged process, network, credential, and persistence behaviors serve the CLI’s update, relay, and explicitly invoked staging-pool features. I found no install hook or automatic unrelated credential transfer.
Evidence
~/.botbuddy/update-check.json~/.botbuddy/staging-session-pool/launchd plist path derived from the selected pool binding
Network endpoints2
registry.npmjs.orgapi.bot-buddy.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest identifies a BotBuddy CLI and exposes its command binaries.
- The update check contacts the npm registry for this package’s latest version and caches the result for a warning.
- The wait command sends its bearer token to the configured BotBuddy relay, defaulting to api.bot-buddy.ai.
- Staging-pool installation is an explicit command guarded as human-only before network or file operations.
- The staging-pool command writes local configuration and installs a launchd job as part of that explicit installation.
Evidence against
- The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, so package installation does not automatically run these commands.
- The inspected network requests support the CLI’s update-check and BotBuddy relay functions; no unrelated credential recipient was identified.
- The launchd persistence behavior is part of an explicit staging-pool install command, not an install hook or automatic package startup.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystem
Source & flagged code
7 flaggedsrc/update-check.mjsView file
15import { mkdir, readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
L16: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L17: import { homedir } from "node:os";
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
src/update-check.mjsView on unpkg · L15src/staging-pool/refresh-runtime.mjsView file
26const jobPath = join(app, "job.mjs");
L27: async function owned(path, directory = false, privateFile = false) {
L28: const info = await fs.lstat(path);
...
L42: const before = await configBytes();
L43: const installed = validateInstalledConfig(JSON.parse(before));
L44: const previous = installed.poolBinding;
...
L61: const rows = await fetchRegisteredPools({
L62: exec: (file, args, callOptions) => exec(process.execPath, [file, ...args], callOptions),
L63: botbuddyBin: cliEntry, env, tenant, poolId, preserveAgentContext: true, requireTenantMatch: true,
...
L125: await fs.rename(configTemp, configPath);
L126: return { ok: true, command: "refresh-runtime", tenant, poolId, runtimeVersion: metadata.version, runtimeSha256: contentDigest, personaAliases: Object.keys(next.personas), producer:
Medium
Install Persistence
Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.
Findings
5 High5 Medium3 Low
HighChild Processsrc/update-check.mjs
HighSame File Env Network Executionsrc/pw/daemon.mjs
HighTrigger Reachable Persistencesrc/staging-pool/cli.mjs
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedsrc/agent-credential-store.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1
HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltasrc/stack.mjs
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumInstall Persistencesrc/staging-pool/refresh-runtime.mjs
MediumShips Native Binarydaemon/bin/darwin-arm64/botbuddy-daemon
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @botbuddy/cli@1.63.29.
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