---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gleapai/kai-bridge"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gleapai/kai-bridge/v/0.12.1.md"
package: "@gleapai/kai-bridge"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.12.1"
---

# @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 22 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.12.1
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Inspected lifecycle, harness login, and self-update code do not show credential theft, remote payload execution, or an unconsented write to a foreign agent control surface. A clean publication decision cannot be finalized because the required citation set is larger than the citation limit.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 62.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-26T21:14:34.839Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-26T21:15:38.463Z
- **Download time:** 1008 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1453 ms
- **AI review time:** 61162 ms
- **Total time:** 63624 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:** Inspected lifecycle, harness login, and self-update code do not show credential theft, remote payload execution, or an unconsented write to a foreign agent control surface. A clean publication decision cannot be finalized because the required citation set is larger than the citation limit.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall, and later an explicit kai-bridge command or a running daemon.

- **Impact:** No confirmed compromise of credentials, agent configuration, or the host. The review stays unresolved only because clean citation coverage cannot fit.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-26T21:15:38.463Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall patches this package's own adapter and browser timeout, then exits unless an interactive global install starts the setup wizard. No separate hidden payload was identified.

- **Rationale:** The install hook and agent helpers match a local Gleap bridge and do not form a concrete attack chain. Marking the package clean is blocked because eleven required paths cannot be cited under the eight-citation limit.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 62.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** package.json registers a postinstall script and does not depend on its own package name., postinstall best-effort patches this install's Claude ACP adapter and starts setup only when stdin and stdout are TTYs, the install is global, and CI is unset., harnessLoginCommand only builds a local Claude, Codex, or Cursor login command for a later explicit call., Self-update installs a newer global release from the running daemon, not from an install-time self-dependency.

- **Evidence against:** The same postinstall also rewrites the resolved Playwright timeout constant inside this install., A running daemon can later run npm install -g of a newer release of this package.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/kai-bridge.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/bin/kai-bridge.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 
L5: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { platform } from "node:os";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/profiles.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/profiles.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L149: const windowsLine = [c.cmd, ...c.args].map(value => `"${String(value).replace(/"/g, '""')}"`).join(' ');
L150: return spawn("cmd", ["/c", "start", '""', "cmd", "/k", windowsLine], { env: { ...c.env, ...(harness === 'claude' ? { DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER: '1' } : {}) }, stdio: "ignore", detached: ...
L151: }
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/preview.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/preview.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: //            reload: restart, requires: [{ name: mongodb, port: 27017 }] }
L9: //     web: { cwd: Frontend, run: "npm start",   port: 3000, env: { API_URL: "http://localhost:9000" }, protocol: http }
L10: //   preview: web
...
L32: 
L33: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L34: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
...
L62: const DEFAULT_SETTLE_MS = Symbol("default");
L63: const defaultSettleMs = () => Math.max(0, Number(process.env.KAI_PREVIEW_SETTLE_MS ?? 3_000) || 0);
L64: const KNOWN_TOP_KEYS = new Set(["services", "preview", "companions", "external", "reverseCompanions"]);
...
L80: try {
L81: const req = createRequire(join(runnerDir, "..", "node_modules", "@playwright", "mcp", "package.json"));
L82: return req("playwright");
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/service.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/service.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: 
L5: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L11: 
L12: export function servicePaths(home = homedir()) {
L13: return {
...
L94: const fullEnv = {
L95: PATH: process.env.PATH || "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
L96: HOME: homedir(),
...
L103: try {
L104: execFileSync("launchctl", ["unload", paths.launchdPlist], { stdio: "ignore" });
L105: } catch {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/preview.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/preview.mjs%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
L1: import { previewPorts } from "./preview-ports.mjs";
L2: // Preview tier A — run the app"s real dev servers next to the session.\n//\n// Each repo may commit a `.gleap/dev.yaml`:\n//\n//   services:\n//     api: { cwd: Server,   run: \"n...
L3: // may already own the declared one) — `PORT` is set and `${port:<name>}`
...
L6: // already listening is adopted as "your running dev server" — but ONLY when
L7: // the listener"s working directory is inside the repo (ports.mjs); anything\n// else on that port is `port_busy`, with pid / command / cwd for the card.\n//\n// Every failure is a...
L8: export function preferredStablePort(repoKey, serviceName) {
```

### 12. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/daemon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/daemon.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time code directly mutates a foreign AI-agent control surface:
L22: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L23: import { appendFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L24: import { join } from "node:path";
...
L78: export function createLogger(kaiHome = KAI_HOME) {
L79: mkdirSync(join(kaiHome, "logs"), { recursive: true });
L80: const file = join(kaiHome, "logs", "bridge.log");
...
L83: try {
L84: appendFileSync(file, line + "\n");
L85: } catch {
...
L390: for (const harness of MODEL_PROBE_HARNESSES) {
L391: // The user's own ~/.claude / ~/.codex first, then any signed-in
L392: // managed profile — the catalogue is per account, not per profile.
Write operation from runner/tools/patch-claude-acp.mjs:
L27: 
L28: import
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/service.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/service.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin/kai-bridge.mjs -> src/service.mjs
L4: 
L5: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L11: 
L12: export function servicePaths(home = homedir()) {
L13: return {
...
L94: const fullEnv = {
L95: PATH: process.env.PATH || "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
L96: HOME: homedir(),
...
L103: try {
L104: execFileSync("launchctl", ["unload", paths.launchdPlist], { stdio: "ignore" });
L105: } catch {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/kai-bridge.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/bin/kai-bridge.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 = 4
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/models.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/models.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.6.0
matchedPath = src/models.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdsZWFwYWkva2FpLWJyaWRnZQ:0.6.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/selfupdate.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/selfupdate.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.6.0
matchedPath = src/selfupdate.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdsZWFwYWkva2FpLWJyaWRnZQ:0.6.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** runner/tools/patch-claude-acp.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/runner/tools/patch-claude-acp.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.6.0
matchedPath = runner/tools/patch-claude-acp.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdsZWFwYWkva2FpLWJyaWRnZQ:0.6.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/companions.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/companions.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.6.0
matchedPath = src/companions.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdsZWFwYWkva2FpLWJyaWRnZQ:0.6.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/daemon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.1/src/daemon.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 = @gleapai/kai-bridge@0.12.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGdsZWFwYWkva2FpLWJyaWRnZQ:0.12.0
similarity = 0.841
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10

### Published dependency entries
- @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp 0.81.1 (Dependency)
- @agentclientprotocol/codex-acp 1.13.1 (Dependency)
- @agentclientprotocol/sdk 1.5.0 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.3.280 (Dependency)
- @openai/codex 0.156.1 (Dependency)
- @playwright/mcp ^0.0.79 (Dependency)
- @sockudo/client ^2.0.0 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.3 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @gleapai/kai-bridge
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.12.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-26T19:32:18.348Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-26T16:18:53.831Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T15:49:52.156Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 0.12.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Kai Code Bridge runs Kai Code on your computer or server with your own coding subscriptions and local previews.
- **Maintainers:** boehlerlukas
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 58
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 819,040 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@gleapai/kai-bridge/v/0.12.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/GleapSDK/kai-bridge>)
- [Homepage](<https://gleap.io/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/GleapSDK/kai-bridge/issues>)