---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@daniellins/power-claude/v/0.16.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@daniellins/power-claude/v/0.16.3.md"
package: "@daniellins/power-claude"
report_status: "published"
title: "@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.16.3"
---

# @daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3 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:** 0.16.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. An explicit install mutates the current project's Claude Code configuration and deploys command hooks. Optional export tooling sends user-directed generation requests to LLM providers using configured credentials; no covert or install-time network action was confirmed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T20:25:53.261Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T20:27:06.005Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3242 ms
- **AI review time:** 68995 ms
- **Total time:** 72744 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** An explicit install mutates the current project's Claude Code configuration and deploys command hooks. Optional export tooling sends user-directed generation requests to LLM providers using configured credentials; no covert or install-time network action was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** User runs power-claude install, then uses the installed Claude workflow or explicit pod-export commands.

- **Impact:** The package can influence Claude Code tool decisions in the installed project and make authorized API requests.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/cli.js, installer/install.js, installer/copy.js, template/.claude/settings.json, scripts/pod-export-executor.cjs, scripts/pod-export-tools.cjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T20:27:06.005Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Project-scoped Claude hook installation and credential-backed LLM export tooling.

- **Rationale:** This is an explicit, first-party agent-extension setup with project configuration mutation, so it warrants a warning under policy. The scanner's test-fixture claims do not establish malware, and source inspection found no concrete malicious chain.

- **Files touched:** .claude/settings.json, .claude/hooks/enforce-git-push-authority.cjs, .claude/hooks/enforce-cycle-authority.cjs, .claude/hooks/enforce-ready-oracles.cjs, .claude/hooks/context-budget.cjs, .power-claude/manifest.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages, https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Explicit CLI install copies a Claude Code template into the current project., template/.claude/settings.json adds PreToolUse/PostToolUse command hooks., Installer merges hook and permission entries into an existing project settings file., scripts/pod-export-executor.cjs reads API-key env values and calls Anthropic/OpenRouter.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., bin/cli.js loads installers only after an explicit user CLI command., Hook sources enforce local workflow/git controls; no exfiltration endpoint was found in them., HTTP fetches block private, loopback, and cloud-metadata hosts and use payload-derived allowlists.

## 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:** scripts/veto-checks/render-gate.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/veto-checks/render-gate.cjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L37: const path = require('node:path');
L38: const { execFileSync } = require('node:child_process');
L39:
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: 
L18: const path = require('node:path');
L19: const pkg = require(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'package.json'));
```

### 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. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/pod-export-ui.test.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/pod-export-ui.test.cjs>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L20: 
L21: const http = require('node:http');
L22: const fs = require('node:fs');
...
L73: });
L74: // O approveRun real lê PODEXPORT_IDENTITIES do env (loadIdentities), então exponha no process.env.
L75: process.env.PODEXPORT_IDENTITIES = identitiesFile;
...
L90: let data = ''; res.on('data', (c) => { data += c; });
L91: res.on('end', () => resolve({ status: res.statusCode, headers: res.headers, body: data }));
L92: });
...
L153: assert(rej.ok && rej.kind === 'blocked', 'rejectRun move o run para blocked/');
L154: const blockedRes = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(cfg.queueDir, 'blocked', `${list[0].runId}.result.json`), 'utf8'));
L155: assert(blockedRes.rejected === true && blockedRes.reason === 'fora do b
```

### 8. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/pod-export-queue-race.test.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/pod-export-queue-race.test.cjs>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: * HERMÉTICO (sem VPS, sem rede externa, sem LLM) e PORTÁTIL (macOS + Linux/CI) — nenhuma dependência
L8: * de `flock(1)`, que não existe no macOS. A concorrência é REAL: `child_process` de verdade
L9: * (`node <script>.cjs`), importando os módulos de PRODUÇÃO, disputando o MESMO diretório de fila,
...
L27: const os = require('node:os');
L28: const http = require('node:http');
L29: const path = require('node:path');
...
L34: 
L35: const SVC_PATH = path.join(__dirname, 'pod-export-service.cjs');
L36: const UI_PATH = path.join(__dirname, 'pod-export-ui.cjs');
...
L51: const BARRIER = `
L52: function barrier() { const t = Number(process.env.START_AT || 0); while (Date.now() < t) { /* spin */ } }
L53: function waitFile(p, ms) { const d = Date.now() + ms; while (!fs.existsSync(p)) { if (Date
```

### 9. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/pod-export-executor.test.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/pod-export-executor.test.cjs>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
L29: const FIXTURE_POD = path.join(REPO_ROOT, 'template', 'pods', 'content-carousel');
...
L54: return Promise.all([
L55: tools.httpFetch('http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/', { whitelistHosts: ['169.254.169.254'] }),
L56: tools.httpFetch('http://localhost:8080/x', { whitelistHosts: [] }),
...
L70: whitelistHosts: ['news.ycombinator.com'],
L71: transport: (url) => { seen = url; return { ok: true, status: 200, body: 'OK', bytes: 2 }; },
L72: }).then((r) => {
...
L85: 
L86: // read_image: gerada → path+tamanho (SEM base64); referência → base64; traversal negado.
L87: const gen = exec; void gen;
```

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/npm-scope-invocation.test.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/npm-scope-invocation.test.cjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: const path = require('node:path');
L28: const { spawnSync } = require('node:child_process');
L29: 
...
L37: * Deliberadamente NÃO casa:
L38: *   - `npx @daniellins/power-claude ...` (o token após `npx` é `@daniellins/...`)
L39: *   - `npx github:daniellins/power-claude ...` (instalação por GitHub, não registry)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** template/pods/dev-ia/tools/db-ops/migration-runner.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/template/pods/dev-ia/tools/db-ops/migration-runner.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = template/pods/dev-ia/tools/db-ops/migration-runner.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 8836
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/\_\_fixtures\_\_/migrate-squad/legacy-squad/scripts/validate-mvn.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@daniellins/power-claude@0.16.3/scripts/__fixtures__/migrate-squad/legacy-squad/scripts/validate-mvn.py>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = scripts/__fixtures__/migrate-squad/legacy-squad/scripts/validate-mvn.py
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 345
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. 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.

## 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:** @daniellins/power-claude
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.16.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-09T20:22:03.886Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T20:27:06.005Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T01:21:01.927Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.16.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lean, budget-gated agent framework for Claude Code — pods by job-to-be-done
- **Author:** Daniel Lins
- **Maintainers:** daniellins
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 467
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,635,057 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@daniellins/power-claude/v/0.16.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/daniellins/power-claude-core>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/daniellins/power-claude-core#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/daniellins/power-claude-core/issues>)
