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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.63.43"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.63.43.md"
package: "@botbuddy/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.63.43"
---

# @botbuddy/cli@1.63.43 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 13 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.63.43
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package’s network and persistence behavior is consistent with its CLI purpose: update checks query the npm registry, wait credentials go to the configured BotBuddy relay, and staging-pool persistence requires an explicit command. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T08:21:30.642Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T08:22:29.851Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3737 ms
- **AI review time:** 54961 ms
- **Total time:** 59209 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:** No attack was identified; reviewed capabilities support the CLI’s stated purpose.

- **Trigger:** CLI commands; staging-pool persistence requires an explicit staging-pool install command.

- **Impact:** Expected update-check, relay, and user-requested staging-pool behavior; no malicious impact found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T08:22:29.851Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI checks the npm registry for a version, sends wait credentials to its configured relay, and can install its staging-pool job on request.

- **Rationale:** The package’s network and persistence behavior is consistent with its CLI purpose: update checks query the npm registry, wait credentials go to the configured BotBuddy relay, and staging-pool persistence requires an explicit command. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was found.

- **Files touched:** ~/.botbuddy/update-check.json, ~/.botbuddy/staging-session-pool/\<pool\>/config.json, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/\<launchd-label\>.plist

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org/@botbuddy/cli/latest, api.bot-buddy.ai/functions/v1/event-stream

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest declares CLI binaries and runtime dependencies but no install lifecycle script., The update check contacts the npm registry for the latest package version and reads the response version., Wait requests use the configured relay URL, defaulting to the BotBuddy API, and send the wait token to that relay., Staging-pool persistence is part of an explicitly invoked command documented for human installation.

- **Evidence against:** The package’s network, process, and filesystem behavior fits its CLI, relay, update, and staging-pool functions., No credential flow to an unrelated host or other concrete attack behavior was identified.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @botbuddy/cli@1.63.43.

- Review the evidence and your use of @botbuddy/cli@1.63.43 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/update-check.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/update-check.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
L17: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L18: import { homedir } from "node:os";
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 4. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/staging-pool/refresh-runtime.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/staging-pool/refresh-runtime.mjs>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L26: const 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:
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/pw/daemon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/pw/daemon.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import net from "node:net";
L3: import { createRequire } from "node:module";
...
L7: import { normaliseLane } from "./args.mjs";
L8: export const daemonDir = (env = process.env) => env.BB_PW_DAEMON_DIR || join(homedir(), ".botbuddy", "pw-daemon");
L9: export function resolveCliBin(env = process.env) { if (env.BB_PW_CLI_BIN) return { cmd: "node", args: [env.BB_PW_CLI_BIN] }; const require = createRequire(import.meta.url); const p...
```

### 7. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/staging-pool/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/staging-pool/cli.mjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin/botbuddy.mjs -> src/commands.mjs -> src/staging-pool/cli.mjs
L21: 
L22: import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as nodeFs from "node:fs/promises";
...
L32: import { assessPoolHealth, healthReasons } from "./health.mjs";
L33: import { buildLaunchAgentPlist, createLaunchctl } from "./launchd.mjs";
L34: import { createEnvFilePasswordSource } from "./password-source.mjs";
...
L85: 
L86: export function exitCodeFor(error) {
L87: if (error instanceof MintRefusedError || error?.code === "persona_not_allowed") return 2;
...
L224: */
L225: export function resolveInstalledPool({ home = homedir(), poolId = null, tenantHint = null } = {}) {
L226: const installed = listInstalledPools(home).filter((pool) => !pool.installed.err
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** daemon/bin/darwin-arm64/botbuddy-daemon
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/daemon/bin/darwin-arm64/botbuddy-daemon>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = daemon/bin/darwin-arm64/botbuddy-daemon
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 12458850
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

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

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/agent-credential-store.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/agent-credential-store.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 = 9
```

### 13. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/stack.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@botbuddy/cli@1.63.43/src/stack.mjs>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @botbuddy/cli@1.63.42
matchedIdentity = npm:QGJvdGJ1ZGR5L2NsaQ:1.63.42
similarity = 0.975
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @playwright/cli 0.1.17 (Dependency)
- playwright 1.62.0-alpha-1783623505000 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @botbuddy/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.63.43
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-31T08:15:57.963Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-28T06:07:02.047Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T02:39:16.327Z
- **Known versions:** 160
- **Latest version:** 1.64.16
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** BotBuddy — Swarm coordination CLI for multi-agent workflows
- **Maintainers:** botbuddy-jo
- **Keywords:** mcp, agents, swarm, cli, coordination
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 147
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 28,566,863 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.63.43>)
