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package: "@chemx/starter-kit"
report_status: "published"
title: "@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "26.9.9-700"
---

# @chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier
- **Selected version:** 26.9.9-700
- **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.

The package is not conclusively malicious, but its explicit scaffolder downloads opaque remote content and writes it into projects, including AI-editor guidance. This warrants a warning rather than a publish block because there is no lifecycle trigger or demonstrated malicious payload.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-09T11:52:12.734Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-09T11:53:00.419Z
- **Download time:** 1004 ms
- **Static scan time:** 122 ms
- **AI review time:** 46558 ms
- **Total time:** 47685 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 retrieve a remote file bundle and write it into the selected project. They also add a project-local AI-editor rules file.

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

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious API response could place unreviewed files and editor instructions in the target project.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-09T11:53:00.419Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote bundle download followed by project-file writes.

- **Rationale:** The package is not conclusively malicious, but its explicit scaffolder downloads opaque remote content and writes it into projects, including AI-editor guidance. This warrants a warning rather than a publish block because there is no lifecycle trigger or demonstrated malicious payload.

- **Files touched:** cli/index.js, ~/.chemical-x/device\_id, ~/.chemical-x/config.json, target project directory/\*\*, target project directory/.cursorrules

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The user-invoked scaffold sends a license key and persistent device identifier to a remote API., The remote response supplies arbitrary named file contents that the CLI writes beneath the chosen project directory., The scaffold also creates a .cursorrules AI-editor instruction file when absent.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The CLI runs only through declared bin commands or an explicit import., No secret harvesting, destructive deletion, eval, or shell command execution was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700.

- Review the evidence and your use of @chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700 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/@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700/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: import { runAudit as executeAstAudit, auditFile } from './audit.js';
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700/cli/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L29: if (platform === 'darwin') spawnSync('open', [url], { stdio: 'ignore' });
L30: else if (platform === 'win32') spawnSync('cmd.exe', ['/c', 'start', '""', url], { stdio: 'ignore' });
L31: 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/@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700/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: import { runAudit as executeAstAudit, auditFile } from './audit.js';
...
L17: 
L18: const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || 'https://chemicalx.xophz.com';
L19: 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/@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700/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: import { runAudit as executeAstAudit, auditFile } from './audit.js';
...
L13: 
L14: const CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.chemical-x');
L15: const CONFIG_FILE = path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'config.json');
...
L17: 
L18: const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || 'https://chemicalx.xophz.com';
L19: const URL_STANDARD = 'https://mycompassconsulting.com/buy/chemical-x/standard';
...
L26: const openBrowser = (url) => {
L27: const platform = process.platform;
L28: 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/@chemx/starter-kit@26.9.9-700/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:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/parser ^7.26.9 (Dependency)
- @babel/traverse ^7.26.9 (Dependency)
- @babel/types ^7.26.9 (Dependency)
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^18.3.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @chemx/starter-kit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 26.9.9-700
- **Version published:** 2026-09-09T11:48:46.699Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-09T09:15:20.948Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-21T17:22:22.985Z
- **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:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 32,866 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@chemx/starter-kit/v/26.9.9-700>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Chemical-X-Protocol/starter-kit>)
- [Homepage](<https://chemicalx.xophz.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Chemical-X-Protocol/starter-kit/issues>)