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package: "@chem-x/starter-kit"
report_status: "published"
title: "@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "26.9.9-632"
---

# @chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 26.9.9-632
- **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.

This is not an automatic install-time attack, but it provides an unresolved remote-payload and unvalidated-write capability during normal CLI use. The explicit AI-agent configuration write adds further risk.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-09T11:20:52.161Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-09T11:21:44.181Z
- **Download time:** 758 ms
- **Static scan time:** 92 ms
- **AI review time:** 51170 ms
- **Total time:** 52020 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:** Explicit scaffold and init commands download server-controlled files and write them into a user-selected project path. The same scaffold command creates a .cursorrules instruction file.

- **Trigger:** A user runs a create or init CLI command and provides a license key.

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious server response can overwrite files outside the intended target through traversal paths and place executable or agent-influencing content in the project.

- **Evidence paths:** cli/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-09T11:21:44.181Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote payload download followed by unvalidated file writes and AI-agent configuration creation.

- **Rationale:** This is not an automatic install-time attack, but it provides an unresolved remote-payload and unvalidated-write capability during normal CLI use. The explicit AI-agent configuration write adds further risk.

- **Files touched:** cli/index.js, \<targetDir\>/\<remote relPath\>, .cursorrules, ~/.chemical-x/config.json, ~/.chemical-x/device\_id

- **Network endpoints:** https://chemicalx.xophz.com/api/starter-kit/download

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The explicit scaffold and init commands send a supplied license key and generated device identifier to a remote endpoint., The remote response supplies a files object whose keys and contents are written without path validation, allowing server-controlled project writes and path traversal., Scaffolding also adds a .cursorrules AI-agent instruction file to the target project.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., No self-dependency, eval, VM, dynamic module loading, or automatic package-time execution was found., Browser launching is limited to user-selected checkout options.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632.

- Review the evidence and your use of @chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632 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:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632/cli/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import readline from 'node:readline';
L7: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L8:
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632/cli/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: if (platform === 'darwin') spawnSync('open', [url], { stdio: 'ignore' });
L29: else if (platform === 'win32') spawnSync('cmd.exe', ['/c', 'start', '""', url], { stdio: 'ignore' });
L30: else spawnSync('xdg-open', [url], { stdio: 'ignore' });
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632/cli/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import readline from 'node:readline';
L7: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L8: 
...
L16: 
L17: const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || 'https://chemicalx.xophz.com';
L18: const URL_STANDARD = 'https://mycompassconsulting.com/buy/chemical-x/standard';
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632/cli/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import readline from 'node:readline';
L7: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L8: 
...
L12: 
L13: const CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.chemical-x');
L14: const CONFIG_FILE = path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'config.json');
...
L16: 
L17: const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || 'https://chemicalx.xophz.com';
L18: const URL_STANDARD = 'https://mycompassconsulting.com/buy/chemical-x/standard';
...
L25: const openBrowser = (url) => {
L26: const platform = process.platform;
L27: try {
```

### 9. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chem-x/starter-kit@26.9.9-632/cli/index.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
nst res = await fetch(`${api_base}/api/starter-kit/download`, {
      method: 'post',
      headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' },
      body: json.stringify({ licensekey: normalizedkey, deviceid })
    });

    const responsedata = await res.json();

    if (!res.ok || !responsedata.valid) {
      process.stderr.write(`\x1b[31m✕ license verification failed: ${responsedata.error || 'invalid key.'}\x1b[0m\n`);
      process.stderr.write(`purchase key at: ${url_standard}\n\n`);
      process.exit(1);
    }

    savelicensekey(normalizedkey);
    process.stdout.write(`\x1b[32m✔ verified license for @${responsedata.githubuser || 'sponsor'}\x1b[0m\n\n`);
    return response
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

### 13. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^18.3.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @chem-x/starter-kit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 26.9.9-632
- **Version published:** 2026-09-09T11:09:38.055Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-09T11:21:44.181Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-21T17:21:35.093Z
- **Known versions:** 43
- **Latest version:** 26.10.19-530
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Chemical X Protocol: Private drop-in architecture starter kit and capsule generator
- **Maintainers:** xopherdeep
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 21,784 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@chem-x/starter-kit/v/26.9.9-632>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Chemical-X-Protocol/starter-kit>)
- [Homepage](<https://chemicalx.xophz.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Chemical-X-Protocol/starter-kit/issues>)