---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs/v/0.15.0.md"
package: "@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs"
report_status: "published"
title: "@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.15.0"
---

# @ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 0.15.0
- **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.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. The install hook runs setup code that adds this package’s observability commands to Claude Code settings. This is package-owned agent integration setup and warrants a warning.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-07T23:12:49.135Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-07T23:13:26.568Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 733 ms
- **AI review time:** 36198 ms
- **Total time:** 37433 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:** The install hook runs setup code that adds this package’s observability commands to Claude Code settings. This is package-owned agent integration setup and warrants a warning.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package through npm triggers its postinstall script.

- **Impact:** Claude Code may invoke the package during prompt and tool events, enabling its tracing behavior.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/setup.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-07T23:13:26.568Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The setup routine writes flow-ai-obs event hooks into Claude Code settings; its invocation also attempts integration setup before checking for credentials.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook automatically runs setup that writes this package’s commands into Claude Code settings, which is a guarded first-party agent integration lifecycle risk. The inspected behavior supports a warning, but does not establish a concrete malicious attack.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/setup.js, dist/cli.js, dist/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://flow.ciandt.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json runs dist/setup.js automatically after installation., dist/setup.js locates Claude Code settings and adds flow-ai-obs hooks for prompt, tool, and stop events., The setup routine also configures other integrations before checking whether credentials exist.

- **Evidence against:** dist/index.js dispatches the configured Claude Code events to observability handlers., The package describes its purpose as Claude Code tracing and defaults its gateway to flow.ciandt.com.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "require('fs').existsSync('dist/setup.js') && require('child_process').execFileSync(process.execPath, ['dist/setup.js'], {stdio:'inherit'})"
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "require('fs').existsSync('dist/setup.js') && require('child_process').execFileSync(process.execPath, ['dist/setup.js'], {stdio:'inherit'})"
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: 'use strict';var h=require('fs'),G=require('path'),rt=require('os'),Me=require('https'),xe=require('http'),child_process=require('child_process'),crypto=require('crypto');function ...
L2: `;try{h.writeFileSync(De,e,{flag:"a"});}catch(n){process.stderr.write(`[flow-obs debug ERROR] ${n.message}
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: `)+`
L31: `),1}var bt=T(()=>{"use strict";ue();});function Pe(){if(process.platform==="linux"&&process.getuid?.()===0&&process.env.SUDO_USER){let t=child_process.spawnSync("getent",["passwd"...
L32: `,{encoding:"utf8",mode:384});try{___namespace.chmodSync(r,384);}catch{}}finally{nn(n);}return {settingsPath:r,preserved:s}}function Z(e){if(ft===void 0)try{let r=___namespace.read...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/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
L1: 'use strict';var h=require('fs'),G=require('path'),rt=require('os'),Me=require('https'),xe=require('http'),child_process=require('child_process'),crypto=require('crypto');function ...
L2: `;try{h.writeFileSync(De,e,{flag:"a"});}catch(n){process.stderr.write(`[flow-obs debug ERROR] ${n.message}
```

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
'use strict';var er=require('readline/promises'),Ms=require('https'),_=require('fs'),ke=require('os'),k=require('path'),child_process=require('child_process'),ro=require('http'),En...
`);}catch(i){throw r.close(),i}if(r.close(),t!==void 0)return t;throw new Error("Too many invalid attempts for yes/no prompt")}async function tr(e,t){let r=er__namespace.createInte...
`);let r=child_process.spawn("npm",["install","-g",`${t}@${e}`],{detached:true,stdio:"ignore",shell:process.platform==="win32",windowsHide:true});r.on("error",()=>{}),r.unref();}as...
`);}r();}}n.on("close",(i,a)=>o(i===0,a??void 0)),n.on("error",i=>o(false,i.co
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: 'use strict';var h=require('fs'),G=require('path'),rt=require('os'),Me=require('https'),xe=require('http'),child_process=require('child_process'),crypto=require('crypto');function ...
L2: `;try{h.writeFileSync(De,e,{flag:"a"});}catch(n){process.stderr.write(`[flow-obs debug ERROR] ${n.message}
L3: `);}}var v=class extends Error{statusCode;constructor(e,n=0){super(e),this.name="AuthError",this.statusCode=n;}},Be=/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]$|^[a-z0-9]$/;function He(t){if...
```

### 13. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';var er=require('readline/promises'),Ms=require('https'),_=require('fs'),ke=require('os'),k=require('path'),child_process=require('child_process'),ro=require('http'),En...
L3: `);}catch(i){throw r.close(),i}if(r.close(),t!==void 0)return t;throw new Error("Too many invalid attempts for yes/no prompt")}async function tr(e,t){let r=er__namespace.createInte...
L4: \u256D${i}\u256E
...
L11: 
L12: `);let r=child_process.spawn("npm",["install","-g",`${t}@${e}`],{detached:true,stdio:"ignore",shell:process.platform==="win32",windowsHide:true});r.on("error",()=>{}),r.unref();}as...
L13: \u256D${p}\u256E
...
L30: `)+`
L31: `),1}var bt=T(()=>{"use strict";ue();});function Pe(){if(process.platform==="linux"&&process.getuid?.()===0&&process.env.SUDO_USER){let t=c
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/cli.js>)

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: dist/cli.js spawns dist/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';var er=require('readline/promises'),Ms=require('https'),_=require('fs'),ke=require('os'),k=require('path'),child_process=require('child_process'),ro=require('http'),En...
L3: `);}catch(i){throw r.close(),i}if(r.close(),t!==void 0)return t;throw new Error("Too many invalid attempts for yes/no prompt")}async function tr(e,t){let r=er__namespace.createInte...
L4: \u256D${i}\u256E
...
L11: 
L12: `);let r=child_process.spawn("npm",["install","-g",`${t}@${e}`],{detached:true,stdio:"ignore",shell:process.platform==="win32",windowsHide:true});r.on("error",()=>{}),r.unref();}as...
L13: \u256D${p}\u256E
...
L30: `)+`
L31: `),1}var b
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L1: 'use strict';var h=require('fs'),G=require('path'),rt=require('os'),Me=require('https'),xe=require('http'),child_process=require('child_process'),crypto=require('crypto');function ...
L2: `;try{h.writeFileSync(De,e,{flag:"a"});}catch(n){process.stderr.write(`[flow-obs debug ERROR] ${n.message}
L3: `);}}var v=class extends Error{statusCode;constructor(e,n=0){super(e),this.name="AuthError",this.statusCode=n;}},Be=/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]$|^[a-z0-9]$/;function He(t){if...
```

### 16. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: `),g(O));}let w=setTimeout(()=>y(false),t);u.once("line",O=>y(O.trim().toLowerCase()==="y")),u.once("close",()=>y(false));})}async function Gr(e){let t=J().name;return process.stde...
L20: `),new Promise(r=>{let n=child_process.spawn("npm",["install","-g",`${t}@${e}`],{stdio:"inherit",shell:process.platform==="win32"}),s=false;function o(i,a){if(!s){if(s=true,i)proce...
L21: 
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L28: 
L29: `)+D(`     npm install -g @ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs
L30: `)+`
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 21. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs@0.15.0/dist/index.js%23virtual%3Astring-array%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.15.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T19:57:02.532Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-08T20:03:31.048Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T00:20:42.689Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 0.15.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Claude Code hooks for Langfuse OTLP tracing — cross-platform
- **Author:** CI&T Flow Team
- **Maintainers:** ulyssesf, jhenifers, davipeterlinicit, weslleysr, leonardom-cit
- **Keywords:** claude-code, langfuse, observability, otlp, hooks, flow, ciandt
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 168,904 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ciandt-flow/flow-ai-obs/v/0.15.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/CI-T-HyperX/flow-codeassistant-observability>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/CI-T-HyperX/flow-codeassistant-observability#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/CI-T-HyperX/flow-codeassistant-observability/issues>)
