---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ghl-ai/aw/v/0.2.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ghl-ai/aw/v/0.2.0.md"
package: "@ghl-ai/aw"
report_status: "published"
title: "@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.0"
---

# @ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 20 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.2.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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.

The package’s usage hooks send identifying details, including Git identity and a stable machine identifier, to the vendor by default after setup. This is telemetry with identifying details, so it warrants a warning even though prompt text is not sent and opt-out controls exist.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T08:02:02.227Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T08:03:13.509Z
- **Download time:** 1030 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1250 ms
- **AI review time:** 69002 ms
- **Total time:** 71282 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:** Default-on usage telemetry sends identifying account and project details to the vendor.

- **Trigger:** After a user runs AW setup that installs the hooks, agent activity triggers telemetry events automatically.

- **Impact:** The vendor receives identifying and project-linked usage metadata without a clear opt-in; users can disable collection through environment variables or configuration.

- **Evidence paths:** hooks/aw-usage/lib/aw-usage-telemetry.js, hooks/aw-usage/hooks/aw-usage-telemetry-send.js, aw-usage-wiring.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T08:03:13.509Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Hooks build event payloads containing Git identity, optional IDE account email, a hashed project path, and a stable machine identifier, then send them asynchronously over HTTPS.

- **Rationale:** The package’s usage hooks send identifying details, including Git identity and a stable machine identifier, to the vendor by default after setup. This is telemetry with identifying details, so it warrants a warning even though prompt text is not sent and opt-out controls exist.

- **Files touched:** hooks/aw-usage/lib/aw-usage-telemetry.js, hooks/aw-usage/hooks/aw-usage-telemetry-send.js, aw-usage-wiring.mjs, ~/.aw/telemetry/config.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://services.leadconnectorhq.com/agentic-workspace/api/telemetry/usage-events

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Usage events include Git user name and email, an IDE account email when available, and a project hash., The machine ID is a stable hash derived from the hostname and OS username., AW installs asynchronous telemetry hooks into agent settings; telemetry is enabled by default when its config is absent., The sender posts events to the vendor’s telemetry endpoint.

- **Evidence against:** The prompt hook says it sends a boundary marker and AW command names, not prompt text., Telemetry can be disabled with DO\_NOT\_TRACK=1, AW\_TELEMETRY\_DISABLED=1, or config enabled=false.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0 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. 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** mcp.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/mcp.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { existsSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, renameSync } from 'node:fs';
L5: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { createInterface } from 'node:readline';
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** integrations.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/integrations.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const execAsync = promisify(exec);
L29: const HOME = homedir();
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** commands/init.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/commands/init.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L127: try {
L128: const wiring = await import(`${pathToFileURL(wiringPath).href}?aw-post-update=${Date.now()}`);
L129: const result = wiring.copyAwUsageScripts(HOME);
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** commands/daemon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/commands/daemon.mjs>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { existsSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, unlinkSync } from 'node:fs';
L5: import { execSync, exec as execCb } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { promisify } from 'node:util';
...
L14: const LABEL = 'ai.ghl.aw.pull';
L15: const PLIST_PATH = join(homedir(), 'Library', 'LaunchAgents', `${LABEL}.plist`);
L16: const DEFAULT_INTERVAL = 3600; // 1 hour in seconds
...
L70: s.start('Installing daemon...');
L71: try { await exec(`launchctl unload "${PLIST_PATH}" 2>/dev/null`); } catch { /* not loaded */ }
L72: await exec(`launchctl load "${PLIST_PATH}"`);
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** integrations.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/integrations.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L4: //   - remote-mcp  (add to mcp.json / config.toml)
L5: //   - universal-installer (runs the integration"s cross-IDE installer)\n//   - python-cli  (pip-install a Python CLI tool, then run its setup commands)\n\nimport { promisify } fro...
L6: // Each command writes the IDE-specific CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md section + hook.
...
L49: try {
L50: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(filePath, "utf8"));
L51: } catch {
...
L160: 
L161: const IS_WINDOWS = process.platform === "win32";
L162: const WHICH_CMD = IS_WINDOWS ? "where" : "which";
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** mcp.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/mcp.mjs>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { existsSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, renameSync } from 'node:fs';
L5: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { createInterface } from 'node:readline';
...
L12: 
L13: const HOME = homedir();
L14: export const DEFAULT_MCP_URL = 'https://services.leadconnectorhq.com/agentic-workspace/mcp';
L15: const MCP_PREFS_FILENAME = 'mcp-preferences.json';
...
L28: try {
L29: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8'));
L30: } catch {
...
L43: 
L44: function envDisablesMcp(env = process.env) {
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** startup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/startup.mjs>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
const upcurrent = array.isarray(config.hooks.userpromptsubmit) ? config.hooks.userpromptsubmit : [];
  const upcleaned = upcurrent.filter(entry => !ismanagedclaudereminderentry(entry));
  config.hooks.userpromptsubmit = [...upcleaned, buildclaudereminderentry()];

  if (json.stringify(config.hooks) === before) {
    return [];
  }

  if (isemptyobject(config.hooks)) {
    delete config.hooks;
  }

  if (!pruneemptysettingsfile(settingspath, config)) {
    writejson(settingspath, config);
  }

  return [settingspath];
}

function hascodexsessionstartscript(homedir = homedir()) {
  return existssync(codexhookscriptpath(homedir));
}

export function ensureawruntimehook(homedir = ho
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** integrations.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/integrations.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> bin.js -> cli.mjs -> commands/init.mjs -> integrations.mjs
L4: //   - remote-mcp  (add to mcp.json / config.toml)
L5: //   - universal-installer (runs the integration"s cross-IDE installer)\n//   - python-cli  (pip-install a Python CLI tool, then run its setup commands)\n\nimport { promisify } fro...
L6: // Each command writes the IDE-specific CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md section + hook.
...
L49: try {
L50: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(filePath, "utf8"));
L51: } catch {
...
L160: 
L161: const IS_WINDOWS = process.platform === "win32";
L162: const WHICH_CMD = IS_WINDOWS ? "where" : "which";
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** commands/daemon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/commands/daemon.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin.js -> cli.mjs -> commands/daemon.mjs
L4: import { existsSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, unlinkSync } from 'node:fs';
L5: import { execSync, exec as execCb } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { promisify } from 'node:util';
...
L14: const LABEL = 'ai.ghl.aw.pull';
L15: const PLIST_PATH = join(homedir(), 'Library', 'LaunchAgents', `${LABEL}.plist`);
L16: const DEFAULT_INTERVAL = 3600; // 1 hour in seconds
...
L70: s.start('Installing daemon...');
L71: try { await exec(`launchctl unload "${PLIST_PATH}" 2>/dev/null`); } catch { /* not loaded */ }
L72: await exec(`launchctl load "${PLIST_PATH}"`);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** c4/templates/claude/scripts/claude-web-bootstrap.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/c4/templates/claude/scripts/claude-web-bootstrap.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = [redacted]-web-bootstrap.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 392
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** c4/initRepo.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/c4/initRepo.mjs%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 = 5
```

### 20. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** hooks.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@ghl-ai/aw@0.2.0/hooks.mjs>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @ghl-ai/aw@0.1.93
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdobC1haS9hdw:0.1.93
similarity = 0.860
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preuninstall
- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts 0.8.2 (Dependency)
- @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.6.2 (Dependency)
- figlet ^1.11.0 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.13.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @ghl-ai/aw
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T07:57:20.266Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T11:23:07.303Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T08:03:13.509Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 0.2.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Agentic Workspace CLI — pull, push & manage agents, skills and commands from the registry
- **Author:** GoHighLevel
- **Maintainers:** shreyansh-ghl, prathameshmhatre, sayeed\_03, suhaib-ghl, mayank-ghl
- **Keywords:** ai, agents, claude, agentic-workspace, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 110
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,092,784 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ghl-ai/aw/v/0.2.0>)