---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@inkeep/open-knowledge/v/0.30.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@inkeep/open-knowledge/v/0.30.0.md"
package: "@inkeep/open-knowledge"
report_status: "published"
title: "@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.30.0"
---

# @inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Installs package-controlled agent skills across broad user-level AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.30.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. npm postinstall automatically modifies detected AI-agent skill hosts. It uses a remotely resolved npx tool and wildcard agent selection without user consent.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-25T20:58:48.318Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-25T20:59:32.933Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2540 ms
- **AI review time:** 41294 ms
- **Total time:** 44615 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm postinstall automatically modifies detected AI-agent skill hosts. It uses a remotely resolved npx tool and wildcard agent selection without user consent.

- **Trigger:** npm install, bun install, or npx cache population

- **Impact:** Installs package-controlled agent skills across broad user-level AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/index.mjs, dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-25T20:59:32.933Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall invokes npx skills add --agent \* globally

- **Attack narrative:** On installation, the postinstall hook imports the bundled library and calls installUserSkill. That function invokes npx to fetch skills@~1.5.0, removes legacy skills from multiple agent directories, then globally copies the bundled skill to every detected agent host via --agent \*. This is unconsented install-time mutation of a broad foreign AI-agent control surface.

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook performs broad AI-agent skill installation automatically rather than through an explicit user command. This meets the blocking policy for unconsented postinstall mutation of foreign/broad agent control surfaces.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/index.mjs, dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall on every install., scripts/postinstall.mjs imports dist/index.mjs and invokes installUserSkill automatically., dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs runs npx skills@~1.5.0 add with --agent \* -g -y --copy., The installer removes legacy skills from ~/.claude, ~/.cursor, and ~/.agents before global installation.

- **Evidence against:** No credential harvesting or data-exfiltration path was confirmed in the inspected lifecycle code., The native loader is generated platform-binding selection code.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/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/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib-BLR9KuxL.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/lib-BLR9KuxL.mjs>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 39
matchedText = -----END...----
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/native/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/native/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: 
L6: const { readFileSync } = require('fs')
L7: let nativeBinding = null
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-6Z5SFZXK-DHOjsS81.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/chunk-6Z5SFZXK-DHOjsS81.mjs>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L116: contains invisible/control Unicode U+FEFF (zero width no-break space)
`};delete e.items,Object.assign(e,{type:n,source:t,end:[r]});break}default:{let r=`indent`in e?e.indent:-1,i=`end`in e&&Array.isArray(e.end)?e.end.filter(e=>e.type===`space`||e.type===`comment`||e.type===`newline`):[];for(let t of Object.ke
```

### 12. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

### 13. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/native/native-config.linux-arm64-musl.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/native/native-config.linux-arm64-musl.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/native/native-config.linux-arm64-musl.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 796488
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/public/assets/KaTeX\_Script-Regular-D3wIWfF6.woff2
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/public/assets/KaTeX_Script-Regular-D3wIWfF6.woff2>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/public/assets/KaTeX_Script-Regular-D3wIWfF6.woff2
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 9644
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. High: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs>)

Package contains source files above the static scanner size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/dist-Dv1J08lw.mjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 2807473
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. 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.

### 21. Low: Copyleft License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 22. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/git-handle-XXj9bu6B-B4fXubq8.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/git-handle-XXj9bu6B-B4fXubq8.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 = @inkeep/open-knowledge@0.22.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGlua2VlcC9vcGVuLWtub3dsZWRnZQ:0.22.0
similarity = 0.550
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 23. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib-BLR9KuxL.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@inkeep/open-knowledge@0.30.0/dist/lib-BLR9KuxL.mjs>)

RSA private key in dist/lib-BLR9KuxL.mjs

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 39
matchedText = -----END...----
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 20

### Published dependency entries
- @inquirer/checkbox ^5.0.11 (Dependency)
- @inquirer/password ^5.0.11 (Dependency)
- @inquirer/select ^5.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.28.0 (Dependency)
- @napi-rs/keyring ^1.3.0 (Dependency)
- @octokit/auth-oauth-device ^8.0.3 (Dependency)
- @octokit/request ^10.0.8 (Dependency)
- @octokit/rest ^22.0.1 (Dependency)
- cli-boxes ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- jsonc-parser ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- pino ^10.3.1 (Dependency)
- simple-git ^3.36.0 (Dependency)
- sirv ^3.0.1 (Dependency)
- smol-toml ^1.6.1 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.7.1 (Dependency)
- yazl ^3.3.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)
- @parcel/watcher ^2.5.6 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @inkeep/open-knowledge
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.30.0
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Version published:** 2026-07-13T14:04:14.862Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:50:11.296Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-15T02:18:24.970Z
- **Known versions:** 41
- **Latest version:** 0.54.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 700
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 31,100,868 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@inkeep/open-knowledge/v/0.30.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge/issues>)
