---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.222.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.222.0.md"
package: "@factory/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@factory/cli@0.222.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.222.0"
---

# @factory/cli@0.222.0 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:** 0.222.0
- **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.

The install script is the usual optional-binary fallback: it fetches the pinned @factory platform tarball from the npm registry and links it inside this package. Credential use, shell checks, and file writes stay aligned with that installer and do not show exfiltration or agent-control mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T20:28:53.006Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T20:29:35.496Z
- **Download time:** 757 ms
- **Static scan time:** 121 ms
- **AI review time:** 41611 ms
- **Total time:** 42490 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 attack surface was established. The postinstall is a package-local binary shim that downloads the matching @factory platform package from the npm registry when the optional dependency is absent.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall runs node install.js after install.

- **Impact:** Install changes stay inside the installed package and do not mutate foreign agent configuration, harvest secrets, or send credentials to an unrelated host.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T20:29:35.496Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The script resolves a same-vendor platform package, writes its binary into this package bin directory, and hard-links the droid shim to it. Registry authentication is limited to npmjs.org hosts.

- **Rationale:** The install script is the usual optional-binary fallback: it fetches the pinned @factory platform tarball from the npm registry and links it inside this package. Credential use, shell checks, and file writes stay aligned with that installer and do not show exfiltration or agent-control mutation.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** postinstall only runs node install.js; optionalDependencies are same-version @factory platform packages, not this package name., If the platform binary is missing, install.js requests that package packument from registry.npmjs.org and downloads the returned tarball., The extracted binary is written only under this package bin directory with mode 0o755., NPM\_TOKEN is added as a Bearer header only when the request hostname includes npmjs.org., On Unix the postinstall replaces bin/droid with a hard link to that binary; the PATH check only prints a shell hint and does not edit profile files.

- **Evidence against:** Redirect responses are followed without a second host allowlist, though the token header is rechecked on each URL., The native droid binary is supplied by optional platform packages and is not present in this package, so its runtime behavior cannot be inspected here.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @factory/cli@0.222.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @factory/cli@0.222.0 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@0.222.0/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@0.222.0/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@0.222.0/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. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. 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@0.222.0/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: }
```

### 9. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.222.0/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) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@factory/cli@0.222.0/install.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

## 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 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64-baseline 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-arm64 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64-baseline 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-arm64 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64-baseline 0.222.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @factory/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.222.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-18T01:18:26.857Z
- **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:** 25,840 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@factory/cli/v/0.222.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory/issues>)
