---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.18.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.18.1.md"
package: "@factiii/runner"
report_status: "published"
title: "@factiii/runner@0.18.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.18.1"
---

# @factiii/runner@0.18.1 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:** 0.18.1
- **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.

Inspected source supports a first-party agent extension installation and automatic update capability, which the supplied policy classifies as warning-only. Scanner claims of malicious credential redirection and install abuse were not substantiated by the inspected activation and credential paths.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-03T22:45:15.116Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-03T22:47:06.445Z
- **Download time:** 3869 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6250 ms
- **AI review time:** 101209 ms
- **Total time:** 111329 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:** Runner workspace setup installs and updates a first-party plugin in Claude and Codex. This creates an agent extension lifecycle risk, but no confirmed malicious attack was established.

- **Trigger:** Starting the paired runner and invoking workspace setup or operations that ensure the workspace is ready.

- **Impact:** Agent hooks, skills, and MCP integration persist at user scope and can change during subsequent runner setup after upgrades.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, plugin/factiii/bin/report-state.sh

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-03T22:47:06.445Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The runner copies its shipped plugin to its local plugin directory and invokes agent CLI marketplace, installation, and update commands.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source supports a first-party agent extension installation and automatic update capability, which the supplied policy classifies as warning-only. Scanner claims of malicious credential redirection and install abuse were not substantiated by the inspected activation and credential paths.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills/deploy, .agents/skills/deploy

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The manifest has no npm installation lifecycle hook; prepublishOnly builds publishing artifacts., The bundled tmux save script writes session layouts to local backup files., Runner workspace setup installs the Factiii plugin at Claude user scope and adds it to Codex., Setup also updates installed plugins automatically from the locally rendered package plugin, without a separate plugin consent prompt., Deployment approval and execution create a workspace Claude skill link; the board MCP uses the runner pairing token with its configured server., The plugin status hook exits when no workspace Redis socket is found.

- **Evidence against:** No inspected source established covert credential theft or malicious installation behavior., Plugin files come from the shipped Factiii integration rather than an unrelated remote payload.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @factiii/runner@0.18.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @factiii/runner@0.18.1 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: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 27627
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1796: }
L1797: const execArgv = process3.execArgv ?? [];
L1798: if (execArgv.includes("-e") || execArgv.includes("--eval") || execArgv.includes("-p") || execArgv.includes("--print")) {
```

### 6. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L32674: var RETRY_MAX_MS = 15e3;
L32675: var dynamicImport = new Function("s", "return import(s)");
L32676: var importFs = new Function("s", "return import(s)");
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process3.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process3.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process3.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process3.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 12. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/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:
headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + authBuf.toString("base64");
fs20.writeFileSync(syncFile, "", "utf8");
var execString = "var http = require('http'), https = require('https'), fs = require('fs');var doRequest = http" + (ssl ? "s" : "") + ".request;var options = " + JSON.stringify(opt...
delete opts.headers.authorization;
if (opts.auth && !options.headers.authorization) {
options.headers.authorization = "Basic " + Buffer.from(opts.auth).toString("base64");
content: `Claude ${e.claude_code_version ?? ""} (${e.model ?? "unknown"})`
"- Persistent agent memory in your state dir (~/.claude or ~/.codex) that survives across s
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/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 index/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process3.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process3.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.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: scripts.start -> dist/cli.js
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process3.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process3.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/cli.js
L38: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L39: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L40: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L964: var EventEmitter = require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L965: var childProcess = require("node:child_process");
L966: var path28 = require("node:path");
...
L1013: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1014: writeOut: (str) => process3.stdout.write(str),
L1015: writeErr: (str) => process3.stderr.write(str),
...
L1049: * @returns {Command[]}
L1050: * @private
L1051: */
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/frpc-linux-amd64
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/vendor/frpc-linux-amd64>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/frpc-linux-amd64
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 16453816
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** plugin/factiii/bin/report-state.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/plugin/factiii/bin/report-state.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = plugin/factiii/bin/report-state.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1931
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** index/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/index/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = index/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 4657995
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. 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.

### 22. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** vendor/tmux-resurrect/scripts/save.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factiii/runner@0.18.1/vendor/tmux-resurrect/scripts/save.sh>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @ayorcodes/claudespace@1.0.11
matchedPath = libexec/claudespace.dist/claudespace/assets/tmux-plugins/resurrect/scripts/save.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:QGF5b3Jjb2Rlcy9jbGF1ZGVzcGFjZQ:1.0.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- node-datachannel ^0.12.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @factiii/runner
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.18.1
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-10-03T21:43:14.131Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T01:18:58.504Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T22:33:07.705Z
- **Known versions:** 34
- **Latest version:** 0.28.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Factiii Runner, run Board AI agents on a machine you control. Pairs with the Factiii web/mobile clients over WebRTC.
- **Maintainers:** hammad387, jsnyder10, shyam415
- **Keywords:** factiii, runner, claude, ai, agent, webrtc, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20 \<25
- **Artifact files:** 32
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 69,223,056 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factiii/runner/v/0.18.1>)
- [Homepage](<https://factiii.com/>)