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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@knapsack/app/v/4.106.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@knapsack/app/v/4.106.3.md"
package: "@knapsack/app"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@knapsack/app@4.106.3 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "4.106.3"
---

# @knapsack/app@4.106.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 4.106.3
- **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.

The inspected source shows no install hook or confirmed attack behavior. Several same-vendor dependencies are directly imported by published entrypoints, and their implementations were unavailable for inspection, so the verdict remains unresolved.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 77.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-21T23:58:50.526Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-21T23:59:35.946Z
- **Download time:** 1522 ms
- **Static scan time:** 553 ms
- **AI review time:** 43344 ms
- **Total time:** 45420 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 concrete attack was identified in the inspected package source. Review remains unresolved because directly imported same-vendor runtime dependencies were unavailable for source inspection.

- **Trigger:** Using the published CLI or importing the library.

- **Impact:** The available source does not establish malicious behavior, but the unresolved dependency implementations prevent a clean verdict.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/cli/knapsack-cli.js, dist/lib/api-client.js, dist/lib/ks-urls.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-21T23:59:35.946Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The entrypoints load local runtime code that imports same-vendor packages whose behavior could not be verified in this snapshot.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source shows no install hook or confirmed attack behavior. Several same-vendor dependencies are directly imported by published entrypoints, and their implementations were unavailable for inspection, so the verdict remains unresolved.

- **Files touched:** package.json, cli.js, dist/cli/knapsack-cli.js, dist/lib/api-client.js, dist/lib/ks-urls.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 77.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest exposes a CLI and library entrypoint and lists no install lifecycle hook., The CLI and library import same-vendor runtime dependencies, including packages declared at version 4.106.3., The available API client delegates URL construction and requests to imported Knapsack packages; their implementation is not available in the inspected source.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest’s scripts are build, clean, lint, and test; none is an install hook., The CLI wrapper loads the package’s local CLI entrypoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @knapsack/app@4.106.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of @knapsack/app@4.106.3 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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/types/knapsack-config.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@knapsack/app@4.106.3/dist/types/knapsack-config.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: exports.KnapsackConfigSchema = void 0;
L4: const zod_1 = require("zod");
L5: const file_utils_1 = require("@knapsack/file-utils");
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 9. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 77.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@knapsack/app@4.106.3/package.json>)

The manifest exposes a CLI and library entrypoint and lists no install lifecycle hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"bin": {
    "knapsack": "cli.js",
    "knapsack-build-tokens": "build-tokens.js"
  },
  "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
      "default": "./dist/index.js"
    },
    "./api-info": {
```

### 10. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 77.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@knapsack/app@4.106.3/package.json>)

The CLI and library import same-vendor runtime dependencies, including packages declared at version 4.106.3.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"@knapsack/babel-config-starter": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/core": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/creator-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/design-token-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/file-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/ks-file-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/logger": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/renderer-client": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/rendering-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/schema-utils": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/types": "4.106.3",
    "@knapsack/utils": "4.106.3",
    "chokidar":
```

### 11. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 77.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/knapsack-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@knapsack/app@4.106.3/dist/cli/knapsack-cli.js>)

The CLI and library import same-vendor runtime dependencies, including packages declared at version 4.106.3.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
*/
const creator_utils_1 = require("@knapsack/creator-utils");
const path_1 = require("path");
const file_utils_1 = require("@knapsack/file-utils");
const utils_1 = require("@knapsack/utils");
const log_1 = require("./log");
const events_1 = require("../server/events");
const server_1 = require("../server/server");
const commands_1 = require("./commands");
const bootstrap_1 = require("../lib/bootstrap");
const cache
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 77.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/api-client.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@knapsack/app@4.106.3/dist/lib/api-client.js>)

The CLI and library import same-vendor runtime dependencies, including packages declared at version 4.106.3.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
exports.authCheck = exports.getContentStateFromId = exports.getDemoFromId = exports.localDevSaveDataCache = void 0;
const core_1 = require("@knapsack/core");
const utils_1 = require("@knapsack/utils");
const lru_cache_1 = require("lru-cache");
const url_join_1 = __importDefault(r
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 38
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 18
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 38

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/core ^7.29.6 (Dependency)
- @clack/prompts ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/babel-config-starter 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/core 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/creator-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/design-token-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/file-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/ks-file-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/logger 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/renderer-client 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/rendering-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/schema-utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/types 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- @knapsack/utils 4.106.3 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- compression ^1.8.1 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.5 (Dependency)
- cross-fetch ^4.1.0 (Dependency)
- debounce ^1.2.1 (Dependency)
- express ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- find-cache-dir ^3.3.2 (Dependency)
- fs-extra ^11.3.4 (Dependency)
- globby ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- handlebars ^4.7.10 (Dependency)
- immer ^10.2.0 (Dependency)
- isomorphic-fetch ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- json-schema-to-typescript ^8.2.0 (Dependency)
- json-stable-stringify ^1.3.0 (Dependency)
- lru-cache ^10.4.3 (Dependency)
- md5 ^2.3.0 (Dependency)
- object-hash ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- portfinder ^1.0.38 (Dependency)
- syswide-cas ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- update-notifier ^7.3.1 (Dependency)
- url-join ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.0 (Dependency)
- yargs ^16.2.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.5.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @knapsack/app
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.106.3
- **License:** GPL-2.0-or-later
- **Version published:** 2026-10-21T23:55:30.608Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:13:17.216Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-31T12:35:42.573Z
- **Known versions:** 49
- **Latest version:** 4.109.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Build Design Systems with Knapsack
- **Author:** Knapsack (https://www.knapsack.cloud)
- **Maintainers:** evanlovely, illepic, jfrenette
- **Keywords:** design-system, knapsack
- **Artifact files:** 253
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 940,486 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@knapsack/app/v/4.106.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/knapsack-labs/app-monorepo>)
- [Homepage](<https://www.knapsack.cloud/>)
