---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.3.md"
package: "@comate/zulu"
report_status: "published"
title: "@comate/zulu@1.7.3 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.7.3"
---

# @comate/zulu@1.7.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 21 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.7.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface. Network, subprocess, and update functionality are CLI runtime features rather than install-time execution.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T22:16:54.062Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T22:18:09.428Z
- **Download time:** 1011 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2989 ms
- **AI review time:** 71365 ms
- **Total time:** 75366 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. Network, subprocess, and update functionality are CLI runtime features rather than install-time execution.

- **Trigger:** Explicit zulu CLI invocation

- **Impact:** No unconsented install-time mutation, payload execution, or exfiltration established

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/cli.mjs, dist/bundle/index.js, scripts/postinstall.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-10T22:18:09.428Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** AI coding CLI with optional self-update and service communication

- **Rationale:** Direct inspection found no lifecycle hook and no concrete remote decode-and-execute chain. The scanner’s eval signal is attributable to bundled parser code, while update behavior is package-aligned CLI functionality.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** dist/bundle/index.js includes CLI update/install and subprocess capabilities, but they are runtime features., The only eval matches inspected are bundled config-parser support, not downloaded payload execution.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm lifecycle scripts., bin/cli.mjs only imports and calls the exported run() CLI entrypoint., dist/bundle/index.js exports run; inspected run() initializes CLI and processes explicit arguments., Update code validates versions/registries and invokes npm only for package self-update., scripts/postinstall.js is present but unreferenced by package.json.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import {execSync} from 'node:child_process';
L15: import {
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L226: const findCmd = isWindows
L227: ? `powershell -Command "Get-ChildItem -Path '${searchDir}' -Filter 'rg.exe' -Recurse ` +
L228: '| Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty FullName"'
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** comate-engine/assets/hooks/local-swe-task-reporter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/comate-engine/assets/hooks/local-swe-task-reporter.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: import fs from 'node:fs';
L6: import http from 'node:http';
L7: import https from 'node:https';
...
L9: import path from 'node:path';
L10: import {execFileSync} from 'node:child_process';
L11: 
L12: const STATE_ROOT =
L13: process.env.COMATE_BUILTIN_HOOK_STATE_DIR || path.join(os.homedir(), '.comate', 'builtin-hook-state');
L14: const STATE_DIR = path.join(STATE_ROOT, 'local-swe-task');
```

### 7. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as fs$y ...
L2: /*!
```

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as fs$y ...
L2: /*!
...
L7: */
L8: !function(e){var t=mimeDb,A=require$$1__default.extname,r=/^\s*([^;\s]*)(?:;|\s|$)/,n=/^text\//i;function i(e){if(!e||"string"!=typeof e)return!1;var A=r.exec(e),i=A&&t[A[1].toLowe...
L9: /*!
...
L34: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */let promise;out.Settings=settings_1$3.default,out.stat=stat$4,out.statSync=statSync;var queu...
L35: /*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrotask$1=queueMicrotask_1;function runParallel(e,t){let A,r,n,i=!0;function s(e){...
L36: /**
...
L4
```

### 9. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L32: * Licensed under the MIT License.
L33: */const util$3=require$$0$5,toRegexRange=toRegexRange_1,isObject$6=e=>null!==e&&"object"==typeof e&&!Array.isArray(e),transform=e=>t=>!0===e?Number(t):String(t),isValidValue=e=>"nu...
L34: /*! queue-microtask. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */let promise;out.Settings=settings_1$3.default,out.stat=stat$4,out.statSync=statSync;var queu...
L35: /*! run-parallel. MIT License. Feross Aboukhadijeh <https://feross.org/opensource> */const queueMicrotask$1=queueMicrotask_1;function runParallel(e,t){let A,r,n,i=!0;function s(e){...
L36: /**
...
L42: * Copyright Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
L43: */lodash$2.exports,function(e,t){(function(){var A,r="Expected a function",n="__lodash_has
```

### 10. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as fs$y ...
L2: /*!
```

### 11. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.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 -> dist/bundle/index.js
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as fs$y ...
L2: /*!
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/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/bundle/index.js
L1: import{fileURLToPath as __zuluFileURLToPath}from"url";import{dirname as __zuluDirname}from"path";const __dirname=__zuluDirname(__zuluFileURLToPath(import.meta.url));import*as fs$y ...
L2: /*!
```

### 13. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** comate-engine/assets/skills/icode/scripts/common.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/comate-engine/assets/skills/icode/scripts/common.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = comate-[redacted].sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3826
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** comate-engine/assets/skills/build-swe-data-auto/tests/test\_language\_detector.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/comate-engine/assets/skills/build-swe-data-auto/tests/test_language_detector.py>)

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = comate-engine/assets/skills/build-swe-data-auto/tests/test_language_detector.py
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 1118
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bundle/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4291353
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.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
```

### 21. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/bundle/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@comate/zulu@1.7.3/dist/bundle/index.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @comate/zulu@1.7.1
matchedIdentity = npm:QGNvbWF0ZS96dWx1:1.7.1
similarity = 0.957
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @comate/zulu
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.7.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T11:41:52.975Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T13:27:52.549Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T03:20:38.807Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 1.7.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** AI Coding Agent
- **Maintainers:** otakustay, howie126313, shenyuw27, mbear
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.10.0
- **Artifact files:** 509
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 37,491,216 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@comate/zulu/v/1.7.3>)
