---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@delorenj/pjangler/v/1.3.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@delorenj/pjangler/v/1.3.7.md"
package: "@delorenj/pjangler"
report_status: "published"
title: "@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.3.7"
---

# @delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.3.7
- **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.

No concrete malicious behavior was found, but the package provides consequential AI-agent configuration and provisioning capabilities when explicitly run. Downgrade to a warning for this dangerous, user-invoked capability rather than block publication.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T17:10:24.079Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T17:11:46.477Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3261 ms
- **AI review time:** 78632 ms
- **Total time:** 82398 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:** No install-time attack surface is confirmed. Explicit CLI/MCP operations can modify a chosen project’s agent files and provision Hermes-related resources.

- **Trigger:** User runs migrate/hermes-agent or invokes the MCP deployment tool with apply/opt-ins.

- **Impact:** May change AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and GEMINI.md in the selected project and handle user-provided service credentials.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/mcp-server.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-19T17:11:46.477Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked AI-agent project configuration and provisioning.

- **Rationale:** No concrete malicious behavior was found, but the package provides consequential AI-agent configuration and provisioning capabilities when explicitly run. Downgrade to a warning for this dangerous, user-invoked capability rather than block publication.

- **Files touched:** AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Explicit migrate command can alter project AI-agent instruction files., Migration promotes AGENTS.md and rewires CLAUDE.md/GEMINI.md as symlinks., Explicit Hermes provisioning supports agent, systemd, cloud, and credential setup., Telegram token handling is interactive and optionally stores a user-supplied token in 1Password.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; only prepublishOnly exists., Entrypoints are CLI/MCP binaries, not import-time execution., MCP deployment defaults to preview and requires apply plus explicit external-effect opt-ins., No source-confirmed credential exfiltration, stealth payload, or install-time mutation.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of @delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 7. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** .mise/scripts/versioning.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7/.mise/scripts/versioning.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = .mise/scripts/versioning.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 8295
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 8. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** .mise/scripts/versioning.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7/.mise/scripts/versioning.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = .mise/scripts/versioning.sh
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 8295
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 9. Critical: Trigger Reachable Excluded Directory Payload
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-reachable source explicitly loads and activates an executable-looking payload from a test, fixture, or hidden path.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/index.js
kind = trigger_reachable_excluded_payload
sizeBytes = 507306
triggerReachableSource = dist/index.js
excludedPayload = .mise/scripts/versioning.sh
```

### 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. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7/dist/index.js>)

Explicit migrate command can alter project AI-agent instruction files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
program.command("migrate").argument("[rule-id]", "Rule ID to migrate (omit to open interactive rule selector)").argument("[repo]", "Path to repo (default: cwd)").description("Idempotent migration recipe for a parity rule (or open the rule selector)").option("--all", "Apply every migration recipe in order").option("--dry-run", "Preview changes without writing files").option(
  "--accept-registry-matches",
  "Apply the proposed mapping of legacy committed .agents/skills entries into .agents/skills.json (reported only by default)"
).option("--json", "Output machine-parseable JSON").action(async (
```

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@delorenj/pjangler@1.3.7/dist/mcp-server.js>)

Migration promotes AGENTS.md and rewires CLAUDE.md/GEMINI.md as symlinks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const bootstrap = bootstrapAgentsFile(ctx.repoRoot, ctx.dryRun);
        changedFiles.push(...bootstrap.changedFiles);
        details.push(...bootstrap.details);
        if (bootstrap.blocked) {
          return { id: finding.id, title: finding.title, status: "blocked", summary: "AGENTS.md missing; cannot derive canonical agent file", changedFiles, details: [bootstrap.blocked] };
        }
        for (const file of ["CLAUDE.md", "GEMINI.md"]) {
          const full = join3(ctx.repoRoot, file);
          const result = ensureSymlink(full, "AGENTS.md", ctx.dryRun);
          if (result
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^1.4.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.2 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.16.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @delorenj/pjangler
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.3.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T16:39:05.286Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-09T00:59:29.037Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-18T02:54:44.579Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 1.5.18
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Project subsystem bootstrapper CLI
- **Author:** delorenj
- **Maintainers:** lasertoast
- **Keywords:** cli, bootstrap, project-setup, mise, docker
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 83
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,485,033 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@delorenj/pjangler/v/1.3.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/delorenj/pjangler>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/delorenj/pjangler#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/delorenj/pjangler/issues>)
