---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@brainervirus/workit-opencode/v/8.5.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@brainervirus/workit-opencode/v/8.5.0.md"
package: "@brainervirus/workit-opencode"
report_status: "published"
title: "@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "8.5.0"
---

# @brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 8.5.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Static inspection found a conditional credential exposure risk: YouTrack credentials are sent to a configurable base URL without an apparent destination allowlist. This warrants a warning, but the inspected code does not establish covert exfiltration or malicious intent.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T15:48:44.995Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T15:49:28.683Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2237 ms
- **AI review time:** 40671 ms
- **Total time:** 43688 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:** A YouTrack token is sent in an API request to a base URL read from configuration. Because that destination is not restricted in the inspected request path, conditional credential exposure remains possible.

- **Trigger:** A caller invokes the plugin’s YouTrack issue-fetch capability with a configured token and base URL.

- **Impact:** If configuration points to an unintended server, the YouTrack token could be exposed there; no evidence shows the package silently selects such a destination.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/plugin.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T15:49:28.683Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The plugin reads the configured token file, places the token in a bearer Authorization header, and fetches issue details from the configured base URL.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found a conditional credential exposure risk: YouTrack credentials are sent to a configurable base URL without an apparent destination allowlist. This warrants a warning, but the inspected code does not establish covert exfiltration or malicious intent.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/plugin.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://youtrack.example.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** YouTrack reads a token from a configured token file and uses it in an Authorization header., The YouTrack API base URL is configurable, with no destination allowlist shown in the inspected request path., The token-bearing request is used to fetch issue details; no malicious collection or unrelated data transfer was established.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no install lifecycle hook and exports the plugin entrypoint., The inspected subprocess helper runs commands in a selected repository root and returns command output to its caller.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0/dist/plugin.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: // packages/workit-core/src/core.ts
L7: import { spawnSync as spawnSync14 } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { existsSync as existsSync7, realpathSync as realpathSync5 } from "node:fs";
```

### 3. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0/dist/plugin.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: // packages/workit-core/src/core.ts
L7: import { spawnSync as spawnSync14 } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { existsSync as existsSync7, realpathSync as realpathSync5 } from "node:fs";
...
L396: for (let i = 0;i < units - 1; i++) {
L397: if ((str.charCodeAt(i) & 64512) === 55296 && (str.charCodeAt(i + 1) & 64512) === 56320) {
L398: count--;
...
L830: }
L831: return result.issues.length ? failure(_Err, result.issues, ctx) : { success: true, data: result.value };
L832: };
...
L1706: return false;
L1707: return canParseURL(`http://[${value}]`);
L1708: }
```

### 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: Stripped Provenance Metadata
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0/package.json>)

YouTrack reads a token from a configured token file and uses it in an Authorization header.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"type": "module",
  "main": "./dist/plugin.js",
  "exports": {
    ".": "./dist/plugin.js"
  },
  "publishConfig": {
    "access": "public"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build": "bun scripts/build.ts",
    "typecheck": "tsc
```

### 11. Medium: Stripped Provenance Metadata
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0/dist/plugin.js>)

YouTrack reads a token from a configured token file and uses it in an Authorization header.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
var youTrackToken = () => {
  const loaded = readYouTrackConfig(true);
  if ("error" in loaded)
    return loaded;
  const tokenFile = String(loaded.config.tokenFile ?? "");
  const tokenPath = tokenFile ? path18.isAbsolute(tokenFile) ? path18.resolve(tokenFile) : path18.resolve(
```

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@brainervirus/workit-opencode@8.5.0/dist/plugin.js>)

The YouTrack API base URL is configurable, with no destination allowlist shown in the inspected request path.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const base = String(loaded.config.baseUrl ?? "").replace(/\/+$/, "");
  if (!base)
    return { error: "baseUrl missing in config" };
  return { token, base };
};
async function youTrackRequest(url, init) {
  const headers = {
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- @brainervirus/workit-core ^8.5.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @brainervirus/workit-opencode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 8.5.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-08T15:45:02.534Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T00:22:18.206Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T05:32:35.833Z
- **Known versions:** 95
- **Latest version:** 8.25.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Workit OpenCode plugin — native tools, adaptive policy, and sixteen method skills
- **Maintainers:** brainervirus
- **Keywords:** agentic-coding, ai-agents, mcp, opencode, plugin, typescript, workflow
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 32
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 869,422 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@brainervirus/workit-opencode/v/8.5.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/BrainerVirus/workit>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/BrainerVirus/workit#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/BrainerVirus/workit/issues>)
