---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@c4a/context-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@c4a/context-cli/v/0.7.14.md"
package: "@c4a/context-cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14 npm security report"
verdict: "scan_failed"
version: "0.7.14"
---

# @c4a/context-cli@0.7.14 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 19 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.7.14
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis completed at 0.0% confidence. No malicious behavior was detected; 19 low-signal pattern(s) were surfaced and cleared.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Scan Failed
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 0.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-19T20:10:13.023Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-19T20:10:19.257Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5978 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 6234 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @c4a/context-cli@0.7.14.

- Review the evidence and your use of @c4a/context-cli@0.7.14 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/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L9: import { existsSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1100: args.unshift(executableFile);
L1101: args = incrementNodeInspectorPort(process2.execArgv).concat(args);
L1102: proc = childProcess.spawn(process2.argv[0], args, { stdio: "inherit" });
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** parserEntryWorker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/parserEntryWorker.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29: var __esm = (fn, res) => () => (fn && (res = fn(fn = 0)), res);
L30: var __require = /* @__PURE__ */ createRequire(import.meta.url);
L31: var require = __require;
```

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. Critical: Dns Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material through DNS lookups.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: class CommanderError extends Error {
L36: constructor(exitCode, code, message) {
L37: super(message);
...
L610: var EventEmitter = __require("events").EventEmitter;
L611: var childProcess = __require("child_process");
L612: var path = __require("path");
...
L655: this._outputConfiguration = {
L656: writeOut: (str) => process2.stdout.write(str),
L657: writeErr: (str) => process2.stderr.write(str),
...
L2781: return false;
L2782: const base64 = header.replace(/-/g, "+").replace(/_/g, "/").padEnd(header.length + (4 - header.length % 4) % 4, "=");
L2783: const decoded = JSON.parse(atob(base64));
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: scripts/postinstall.mjs spawns cli.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L7: 
L8: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L9: import { existsSync, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
...
L18: export function looksLikeClaudePluginInstall(env) {
L19: const hints = ["CLAUDE_PLUGIN_INSTALL", "CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN", "npm[redacted]"];
L20: return hints.some((key) => env[key]?.toLowerCase().includes("claude") === true);
...
L64: function log(message) {
L65: process.stderr.write(`[context-cli postinstall] ${message}\n`);
L66: }
```

### 11. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> cli.js
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L42: "Claude plugin installed without a global context CLI. Install it with:",
L43: `  npm install -g @c4a/context-cli@${version}`,
L44: ],
...
L49: const lookup = process.platform === "win32"
L50: ? spawnSync("where", ["context"], { stdio: "ignore" })
L51: : spawnSync("sh", ["-c", "command -v context"], { stdio: "ignore" });
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** wasm/tree-sitter.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/wasm/tree-sitter.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = wasm/tree-sitter.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 186526
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = cli.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4445325
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 4445325
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@c4a/context-cli@0.7.14/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 31
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 31

### Published dependency entries
- @c4a/agent-graph 0.3.0 (Dependency)
- @c4a/context 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-contract 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-go 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-mdx 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-proto 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-rush 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-sql 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-style 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-thrift 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- @c4a/extract-ts 0.7.14 (Dependency)
- commander ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- fast-xml-parser ^5.10.1 (Dependency)
- handlebars ^4.7.8 (Dependency)
- ink ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- jiti ^2.7.0 (Dependency)
- mdast-util-to-string ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- mermaid 11.12.0 (Dependency)
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- remark-gfm ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- remark-mdx ^3.1.1 (Dependency)
- remark-parse ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-stringify ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- sharp ^0.35.3 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.5.4 (Dependency)
- unified ^11.0.5 (Dependency)
- vitepress 1.6.4 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter ^0.20.8 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.5.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @c4a/context-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.7.14
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-16T08:58:00.360Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-11T12:28:03.022Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T06:05:11.204Z
- **Known versions:** 44
- **Latest version:** 0.7.43
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Local runtime and Agent integration for traceable knowledge production
- **Maintainers:** qiansc
- **Keywords:** cli, knowledge, context, claude-code, claude-plugin
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 784
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 11,264,723 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@c4a/context-cli/v/0.7.14>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/context4ai/context>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/context4ai/context#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/context4ai/context/issues>)
