registry / @devflow-tools/knowledge-engine / 0.18.20
@devflow-tools/knowledge-engine@0.18.20
Version-aware project knowledge ingestion and retrieval for DevFlow.
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe postinstall hook downloads Chromium for the package's browser-based fetcher, while runtime networking is explicit documentation ingestion. Source inspection found no concrete malicious behavior.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
Installation downloads a Playwright browser; runtime fetching requires callers to invoke exported functions.
Impact
No credential theft, foreign control-surface mutation, persistence, or destructive action was found.
Mechanism
Documentation retrieval and local knowledge-cache maintenance.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook downloads Chromium for the package's browser-based fetcher, while runtime networking is explicit documentation ingestion. Source inspection found no concrete malicious behavior.
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 90.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- Installation invokes Playwright's Chromium installer and ignores failure.
- Runtime functions fetch Context7 documentation.
- A GitHub helper can clone caller-selected documentation paths.
Evidence against
- There is no self-dependency, credential or environment harvesting, dynamic evaluation, or import-time execution.
- Network and filesystem operations are exposed as knowledge-ingestion functions, not invoked by the package entrypoint.
- The lifecycle browser download supports the exported Playwright-based HTML fetcher; no AI-agent configuration or consumer-project control-surface mutation is present.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
5 flaggedpackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = playwright install chromium || true
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = playwright install chromium || true
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkg17"clean": "rm -rf dist",
"postinstall": "playwright install chromium || true"
},
Low
Ai Review Evidence
Installation invokes Playwright's Chromium installer and ignores failure.
package.jsonView on unpkg · L17dist/context7-fetcher.jsView file
Findings
1 High3 Medium7 Low
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
MediumNetwork
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowAi Review Evidencepackage.json
LowAi Review Evidencedist/context7-fetcher.js
LowAi Review Evidencedist/git-fetcher.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @devflow-tools/knowledge-engine@0.18.20.
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