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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.64.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.64.6.md"
package: "@botbuddy/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@botbuddy/cli@1.64.6 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.64.6"
---

# @botbuddy/cli@1.64.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 1.64.6
- **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 manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the flagged process execution and persistence support explicit CLI features. Credential use is directed to the BotBuddy relay, while the update check retrieves only the npm version.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T12:10:49.577Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T12:12:24.452Z
- **Download time:** 1028 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3774 ms
- **AI review time:** 90073 ms
- **Total time:** 94875 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; the reviewed network and persistence behavior fits the CLI's stated functions.

- **Trigger:** Normal CLI commands perform a version check; relay requests occur during wait operations; staging-pool persistence requires an explicit install command.

- **Impact:** No unauthorized credential transfer, unrelated collection, or automatic persistence was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-04T12:12:24.452Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The version check retrieves a version from npm, wait requests use a BotBuddy session token with the BotBuddy relay, and the staging-pool command checks for a human-run context before installing its job.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the flagged process execution and persistence support explicit CLI features. Credential use is directed to the BotBuddy relay, while the update check retrieves only the npm version.

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org, api.bot-buddy.ai

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest declares CLI entry points and no lifecycle scripts., The update check reads only the latest version from the npm registry., The wait flow sends its session token to the configured BotBuddy relay, defaulting to api.bot-buddy.ai., Telemetry code redacts credential-like values and removes raw output and environment fields., Staging-pool installation is an explicit command that checks for a human-run context before network or file operations.

- **Evidence against:** The package includes process execution and native daemon binaries., The staging-pool installer writes files and configures a launchd job, but this occurs through its explicit, human-gated install command.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @botbuddy/cli@1.64.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of @botbuddy/cli@1.64.6 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@1.64.6/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@1.64.6/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@1.64.6/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@1.64.6/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@1.64.6/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 = 12630386
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@1.64.6/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
```

## 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:** 1.64.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-04T12:04:26.424Z
- **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:** 148
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 28,899,354 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@botbuddy/cli/v/1.64.6>)
