---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lingjingai/scriptctl/v/0.61.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lingjingai/scriptctl/v/0.61.3.md"
package: "@lingjingai/scriptctl"
report_status: "published"
title: "@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "0.61.3"
---

# @lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. The package installs package-controlled instructions into Claude, generic-agent, and Codex skill locations without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.61.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installing the package automatically changes three AI-agent skill control surfaces in the user's home directory. It removes and replaces the scriptctl skill directory in each location.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-07T15:16:03.999Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-07T15:16:56.897Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7334 ms
- **AI review time:** 45308 ms
- **Total time:** 52898 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:** Installing the package automatically changes three AI-agent skill control surfaces in the user's home directory. It removes and replaces the scriptctl skill directory in each location.

- **Trigger:** npm installation, which runs postinstall automatically

- **Impact:** The package installs package-controlled instructions into Claude, generic-agent, and Codex skill locations without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-skill.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-07T15:16:56.897Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** automatic deletion and replacement of AI-agent skill directories

- **Attack narrative:** A normal npm install invokes the postinstall hook. That hook resolves the user's home directory, iterates over three agent skill roots, forcibly removes each existing scriptctl skill directory, copies package-provided skill content there, and writes a version marker. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of broad AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** The package has a concrete automatic postinstall chain that overwrites skill content in Claude, agent, and Codex directories. Opt-out support does not establish consent for the default mutation.

- **Files touched:** scripts/install-skill.mjs, skills/scriptctl, $HOME/.claude/skills/scriptctl, $HOME/.agents/skills/scriptctl, $HOME/.codex/skills/scriptctl

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** An npm postinstall hook automatically runs the skill installer., The installer targets Claude, generic agents, and Codex skill directories under the user's home directory., The installer forcibly deletes and replaces a skill directory in each agent control surface.

- **Evidence against:** The installer supports environment-variable opt-out and only targets its own named subdirectory., No credential theft or external network call was found in the install hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3.

- Avoid installing @lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/install-skill.mjs
```

### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/infra/llm/gemini-video-model.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3/dist/infra/llm/gemini-video-model.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L314: // actually exercised (keeps text-only runs free of @google/genai).
L315: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L316: function createGoogleClient(apiKey, timeoutMs, baseUrl) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3/scripts/install-skill.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
L22: const TARGET_SKILL_ROOTS = [
L23: path.join(".claude", "skills"),
L24: path.join(".agents", "skills"),
L25: path.join(".codex", "skills"),
L26: ];
...
L58: const stamped = text.replace(/^(\s+)scriptctl_version:.*$/m, `$1scriptctl_version: "${version}"`);
L59: fs.writeFileSync(skillMdPath, stamped, "utf-8");
L60: } catch {
...
L67: fs.rmSync(target, { recursive: true, force: true });
L68: fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(target), { recursive: true });
L69: fs.cpSync(skillSrc, target, { recursive: true });
L70: stampVersion(path.join(target, "SKILL.md"), version);
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. 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.

### 12. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/usecases/ingest/view-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3/dist/usecases/ingest/view-server.js>)

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 = @lingjingai/scriptctl@0.57.1
matchedPath = dist/usecases/ingest/view-server.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGxpbmdqaW5nYWkvc2NyaXB0Y3Rs:0.57.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 13. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lingjingai/scriptctl@0.61.3/dist/bin.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 = @lingjingai/scriptctl@0.58.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGxpbmdqaW5nYWkvc2NyaXB0Y3Rs:0.58.0
similarity = 0.775
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, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 11
- **Optional dependencies:** 3
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.111.0 (Dependency)
- @google/genai ^2.11.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- fast-json-patch ^3.1.1 (Dependency)
- fast-xml-parser ^5.9.0 (Dependency)
- https-proxy-agent ^9.1.0 (Dependency)
- jszip ^3.10.1 (Dependency)
- nanoid ^5.1.16 (Dependency)
- proper-lockfile ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.16.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.1 (Dependency)
- @ai-sdk/google ^4.0.63 (OptionalDependency)
- @mastra/core ^1.64.0 (OptionalDependency)
- zod ^4.5.4 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @lingjingai/scriptctl
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.61.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-07T15:13:32.073Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T09:34:38.241Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T00:30:55.423Z
- **Known versions:** 47
- **Latest version:** 0.63.19
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 剧本阶段统一 CLI：素材转 Script v4，并兼容 Script v3 的本地写作、精修、校验和发布。
- **Keywords:** scriptctl, screenplay, cli, agent-sandbox
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 868
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,076,945 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lingjingai/scriptctl/v/0.61.3>)
