---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.195.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.195.0.md"
package: "@factory/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@factory/cli@0.195.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.195.0"
---

# @factory/cli@0.195.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 0.195.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection shows a conventional native-CLI installer: it resolves @factory platform packages, falls back to the npm registry, and modifies only its own bin shim. No exfiltration, persistence outside the package, destructive action, or AI-agent control-surface mutation is present.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-13T02:07:17.786Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-13T02:07:58.211Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 153 ms
- **AI review time:** 39770 ms
- **Total time:** 40425 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 confirmed malicious attack surface. The install hook performs package-local CLI binary setup and a registry fallback for the package's own platform variants.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall; the registry fallback activates only when the optional platform dependency is unavailable.

- **Impact:** Installs or links the intended droid executable within this package; no external configuration or credential exfiltration is evidenced.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, install.js, platform.js, bin/droid

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-13T02:07:58.211Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** package-local native CLI binary fallback and shim linking

- **Rationale:** Source inspection shows a conventional native-CLI installer: it resolves @factory platform packages, falls back to the npm registry, and modifies only its own bin shim. No exfiltration, persistence outside the package, destructive action, or AI-agent control-surface mutation is present.

- **Files touched:** bin/droid, bin/droid.backup

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** Postinstall can fetch a versioned platform binary when its optional dependency is absent., The fallback writes that binary only to the package-local bin directory.

- **Evidence against:** The only fixed registry endpoint is registry.npmjs.org and selected package names are the package's own @factory/cli platform variants., Postinstall only replaces the package's droid shim with a link to the selected binary; no user config, credentials, or external files are modified., Runtime execution forwards user-supplied CLI arguments to the selected platform binary.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @factory/cli@0.195.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @factory/cli@0.195.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/install.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: const zlib = require('zlib');
L22: const child_process = require('child_process');
L23:
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/install.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L305: `  set PATH=%PATH%;${binDir}\n\n` +
L306: 'To fix permanently (PowerShell):\n' +
L307: `  [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $env:PATH + ';${binDir}', 'User')\n\n` +
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/install.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L18: const path = require("path");
L19: const https = require("https");
L20: const zlib = require("zlib");
L21: const child_process = require("child_process");
L22: 
...
L30: 
L31: // Read version - handle case where package.json doesn"t exist yet (template dir)\nlet PACKAGE_VERSION = "0.0.0";\ntry {\n  PACKAGE_VERSION = require("./package.json").version;\n} ...
L32: }
```

### 10. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.195.0/package.json>)

Install-time source downloads a native archive from a fixed external host without transport verification, extracts it, and installs an executable payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
Install-time code downloads an unverified remote native executable, stages it locally, activates an executable path, and exposes it to process execution.
L9: *
L10: * Based on esbuild's approach: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/pull/1621
L11: * and Sentry's guide: https://sentry.engineering/blog/publishing-binaries-on-npm
L12: *
...
L19: const path = require('path');
L20: const https = require('https');
L21: const zlib = require('zlib');
...
L27: getBinaryName,
L28: getBinaryPath,
L29: detectAVX2Support,
...
L50: 
L51: function validateBinaryVersion(binaryPath) {
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 14. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 9
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @factory/cli-darwin-arm64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64-baseline 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-arm64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64-baseline 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-arm64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64-baseline 0.195.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @factory/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.195.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-13T02:05:08.993Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T17:00:12.924Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T01:36:11.637Z
- **Known versions:** 75
- **Latest version:** 1.3.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Factory Droid CLI - AI-powered software engineering agent
- **Maintainers:** alvinsng, factory-davidgu, varin-nair-factory, arman-factory, eno\_factory, factory-octavian
- **Keywords:** factory, droid, cli, ai, agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 25,819 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.195.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory/issues>)
