---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@hmharness/cli/v/0.23.44"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@hmharness/cli/v/0.23.44.md"
package: "@hmharness/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@hmharness/cli@0.23.44 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.23.44"
---

# @hmharness/cli@0.23.44 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 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:** 0.23.44
- **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 package declares no install hook, and the flagged persistence code is invoked through explicit web-daemon or extension commands for the CLI’s advertised services. The board installer’s network activity is directed at registry.npmjs.org to retrieve first-party packages.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-29T07:47:42.737Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-29T07:48:35.785Z
- **Download time:** 1027 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1004 ms
- **AI review time:** 51016 ms
- **Total time:** 53048 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 was identified; daemon persistence supports the CLI’s web and browser-extension features and is reached through their command flows.

- **Trigger:** Explicit web daemon installation or extension setup commands.

- **Impact:** The requested web or extension service can restart at login or be revived by a watchdog.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-29T07:48:35.785Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** These commands create user-level autostart or watchdog entries for the package’s own daemons.

- **Rationale:** The package declares no install hook, and the flagged persistence code is invoked through explicit web-daemon or extension commands for the CLI’s advertised services. The board installer’s network activity is directed at registry.npmjs.org to retrieve first-party packages.

- **Files touched:** board/install-kaihongos.cjs, dist/main.js, dist/extension-daemon.js, dist/web-daemon.js, ~/.config/systemd/user/hmharness-web-daemon.service, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/hmharness-web-daemon.plist, Windows Startup/hmharness-web-daemon.cmd

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package exposes dist/main.js as its CLI and has no install lifecycle hook; its only npm script is build., Web daemon autostart is installed through the explicit \`hmh web install-daemon\` command, which reports that it will start at login., The extension watchdog and scheduled task are set up in the extension command flow, with a corresponding stop command that removes them., The board installer describes resolving and downloading first-party packages from registry.npmjs.org into its board-specific node\_modules directory.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @hmharness/cli@0.23.44.

- Review the evidence and your use of @hmharness/cli@0.23.44 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** board/install-kaihongos.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/board/install-kaihongos.cjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: const https = require('https');
L36: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
L37:
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/web-daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/web-daemon.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L79: try {
L80: const out = execSync(`powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter 'ProcessId=${pid}').CommandLine"`, { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 8000 });
L81: const cmd = out.trim();
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/extension-daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/extension-daemon.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: */
L11: import { spawn, execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
...
L19: try {
L20: const p = Number(readFileSync(join(homeDir(), 'extension.pid'), 'utf8').trim());
L21: return Number.isFinite(p) && p > 0 ? p : 0;
...
L37: try {
L38: const r = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/status`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(1500) });
L39: if (!r.ok)
L40: return { up: false, connected: false };
L41: const d = await r.json();
L42: const up = d?.ok === true && d?.protocol === 'hmext/1';
```

### 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:** board/install-kaihongos.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/board/install-kaihongos.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L350: log('first run: creating config skeleton at ' + HMH_HOME);
L351: const r = spawnSync(nodeBin, [path.join(NM, '@hmharness', 'cli', 'dist', 'main.js'), 'init'], {
L352: encoding: 'utf8', env: Object.assign({}, process.env, { HMH_HOME, HOME: BOARD_HOME }),
L353: });
...
L360: console.log('  2. hmh check     # verify toolchain');
L361: console.log('  3. hmh tui       # or: hmh web start  →  http://127.0.0.1:7788');
L362: console.log('pitfalls & details: docs/KAIHONGOS.md');
```

### 9. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** dist/main.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/main.js>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @hmharness/cli; repositoryIdentity = hmharness; dependency = @hmharness/agent
L33: import { harmonyTools } from '@hmharness/domain-harmony';
L34: import { baseTools, buildRegistry, buildSystemPrompt, runAgentTask, strings } from '@hmharness/agent';
L35: const DIM = (s) => `\x1b[2m${s}\x1b[0m`;
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/extension-daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/extension-daemon.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.main -> dist/main.js -> dist/extension-daemon.js
L10: */
L11: import { spawn, execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
...
L19: try {
L20: const p = Number(readFileSync(join(homeDir(), 'extension.pid'), 'utf8').trim());
L21: return Number.isFinite(p) && p > 0 ? p : 0;
...
L37: try {
L38: const r = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/status`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(1500) });
L39: if (!r.ok)
L40: return { up: false, connected: false };
L41: const d = await r.json();
L42: const up = d?.ok === true && d?.protocol === 'hmext/1';
```

### 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:** 80.0%

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

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/extension-daemon.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/extension-daemon.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
```

### 15. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/extension-daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@hmharness/cli@0.23.44/dist/extension-daemon.js>)

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 = @hmharness/cli@0.23.38
matchedIdentity = npm:QGhtaGFybmVzcy9jbGk:0.23.38
similarity = 0.800
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @hmharness/agent 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/browser 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/cognitive 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/domain-harmony 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/domain-ops 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/environments 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/evaluation 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/evolution 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/extension 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/kernel 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/lsp 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/observability 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/sandbox 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- @hmharness/web 0.23.44 (Dependency)
- qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @hmharness/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.23.44
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-28T19:10:42.073Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-07T08:27:34.501Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T15:26:06.063Z
- **Known versions:** 92
- **Latest version:** 0.23.50
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** hmharness command line: one-shot tasks, an interactive REPL, a fullscreen TUI, the web frontend, and direct tool invocation.
- **Maintainers:** swsgbl
- **Keywords:** harmonyos, openharmony, ohos, agent, ai, cli, coding-agent, arkts, self-evolving, mcp
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 40
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 573,107 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@hmharness/cli/v/0.23.44>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/swsgbl/hmharness>)
- [Homepage](<https://swsgbl.github.io/hmharness/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/swsgbl/hmharness/issues>)
