---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@choprapadam/agent-cli/v/0.1.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@choprapadam/agent-cli/v/0.1.1.md"
package: "@choprapadam/agent-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.1"
---

# @choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. It alters the local AI-agent control surface and can overwrite an existing symlink target.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.1.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. A global-install postinstall hook changes AI-agent skill locations without an interactive consent step. It installs the package skill for one agent convention and links it into Claude’s skill directory.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-26T19:37:36.048Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-26T19:38:15.441Z
- **Download time:** 752 ms
- **Static scan time:** 46 ms
- **AI review time:** 38595 ms
- **Total time:** 39393 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global-install postinstall hook changes AI-agent skill locations without an interactive consent step. It installs the package skill for one agent convention and links it into Claude’s skill directory.

- **Trigger:** Running a global npm installation without the documented opt-out variables.

- **Impact:** It alters the local AI-agent control surface and can overwrite an existing symlink target.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, scripts/skill-install.mjs, skills/agent-cli/SKILL.md, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-26T19:38:15.441Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall copies a skill and replaces a foreign agent skill symlink.

- **Attack narrative:** On global installation, the package runs a postinstall hook that copies its skill into ~/.agents/skills/agent-cli and creates ~/.claude/skills/agent-cli. If the Claude path is an existing symlink to a different destination, the hook deletes it before creating its own link. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface.

- **Rationale:** The package performs an unconsented global-install postinstall mutation of Claude’s skill directory and replaces conflicting symlinks. Its explicit CLI network and upload behavior does not remove that lifecycle attack surface.

- **Files touched:** ~/.agents/skills/agent-cli, ~/.claude/skills/agent-cli

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The postinstall hook runs skill installation during global npm installation unless an opt-out environment variable is set., The installer copies package content into the agent skill directory and creates a Claude skill symlink., An existing Claude skill symlink with a different target is removed and replaced without consent.

- **Evidence against:** The packaged skill documents the CLI’s media upload and login commands; no hidden payload is present., Network requests are limited to the configured service for explicit login and upload commands., The lifecycle hook exits for non-global installations and CI.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1/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/@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1/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. 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: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: import { join } from "path";
L10: var CONFIG_DIR = join(homedir(), ".agent-cli");
L11: var CONFIG_PATH = join(CONFIG_DIR, "config.json");
L12: function loadConfig() {
L13: const apiUrl = process.env.AGENT_CLI_API_URL ?? "https://agent-cli.padamchopra.me";
L14: if (!existsSync(CONFIG_PATH)) {
...
L18: const raw = readFileSync(CONFIG_PATH, "utf8");
L19: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L20: return {
...
L37: function getMachineName() {
L38: return hostname().split(".")[0] || "unknown";
L39: }
```

### 8. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/skill-install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1/scripts/skill-install.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import {
L2: cpSync,
L3: existsSync,
L4: lstatSync,
L5: mkdirSync,
L6: readlinkSync,
...
L17: export const SKILL_SRC = join(__dirname, "..", "skills", SKILL_NAME);
L18: export const SKILL_DEST = join(homedir(), ".agents", "skills", SKILL_NAME);
L19: export const CLAUDE_LINK = join(homedir(), ".claude", "skills", SKILL_NAME);
L20: 
...
L25: 
L26: mkdirSync(dirname(SKILL_DEST), { recursive: true });
```

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@choprapadam/agent-cli@0.1.1/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

The postinstall hook runs skill installation during global npm installation unless an opt-out environment variable is set.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const skip =
  process.env.AGENT_CLI_SKIP_SKILL_INSTALL === "1" ||
  process.env.AGENT_CLI_SKIP_SKILL_PROMPT === "1" ||
  process.env.CI === "true" ||
  process.env.npm[redacted] !== "true";

if (skip) {
  process.exit(0);
}

try {
  const { dest, link } = installSkill();
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @choprapadam/agent-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-22T11:37:43.578Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-26T19:38:15.441Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-26T19:38:15.441Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 0.1.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Agent CLI — upload media and connect to the Agent CLI backend
- **Keywords:** agent, cli, media, upload, hosting
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 14,025 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@choprapadam/agent-cli/v/0.1.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/padamchopra/agent-cli.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/padamchopra/agent-cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/padamchopra/agent-cli/issues>)