---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lion1ou/skill-ctl/v/1.2.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lion1ou/skill-ctl/v/1.2.2.md"
package: "@lion1ou/skill-ctl"
report_status: "published"
title: "@lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.2.2"
---

# @lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2 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:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.2.2
- **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 flagged process execution supports user-requested external skill preparation, while the manager binds to loopback and protects API access with a random token. Default dashboard analytics is disclosed, limited as documented, and has an opt-out, so the reviewed behavior is consistent with the package’s purpose.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T21:39:03.584Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T21:39:34.911Z
- **Download time:** 1040 ms
- **Static scan time:** 159 ms
- **AI review time:** 30128 ms
- **Total time:** 31327 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. The package provides a user-invoked skill installer and local management UI with disclosed, optional analytics.

- **Trigger:** User runs the CLI; dashboard telemetry starts when the user runs manage and opens its pages.

- **Impact:** The reviewed behavior supports the package’s stated purpose; disclosed analytics reports anonymous usage and is documented as excluding skill content, paths, and the access token.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T21:39:34.911Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Selected external skills are prepared through npx; the dashboard may load an analytics script from track.lion1ou.tech unless telemetry is disabled.

- **Rationale:** The flagged process execution supports user-requested external skill preparation, while the manager binds to loopback and protects API access with a random token. Default dashboard analytics is disclosed, limited as documented, and has an opt-out, so the reviewed behavior is consistent with the package’s purpose.

- **Network endpoints:** https://skills.sh/api/search, https://track.lion1ou.tech

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package has no install or postinstall hook; its lifecycle scripts are build, test, prepack, and prepublishOnly., The dashboard telemetry is limited to anonymous page views, frontend errors, and performance, and can be disabled with SKILLCTL\_NO\_TELEMETRY., The README discloses the telemetry, says it excludes skill content, paths, and the access token, and documents the opt-out., The manager server binds to 127.0.0.1 and uses a random per-process token for API protection., Catalog installation runs after the user invokes install and selects skills and targets., Search requests go to skills.sh, the service used to find external skills.

- **Evidence against:** The dashboard loads analytics from track.lion1ou.tech by default when the user runs the management UI., Installing selected external skills can invoke npx to prepare them.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/dev-session.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2/dist/dev-session.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFileSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L2: import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs';
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/skills-source.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2/dist/core/skills-source.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: export function inspectPackageSkills(packageId) {
L22: const result = spawnSync('npx', ['-y', 'skills', 'add', packageId, '-l'], {
L23: encoding: 'utf8',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

### 11. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/workspace-picker.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2/dist/core/workspace-picker.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 = 1
```

### 12. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/catalog-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.2.2/dist/core/catalog-install.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 = @lion1ou/skill-ctl@1.1.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QGxpb24xb3Uvc2tpbGwtY3Rs:1.1.0
similarity = 0.621
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/core ^0.3.3 (Dependency)
- @clack/prompts ^0.7.0 (Dependency)
- @oclif/core ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- baoyu-chrome-cdp ^0.1.1 (Dependency)
- baoyu-md ^0.1.1 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- figlet ^1.7.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @lion1ou/skill-ctl
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-23T23:43:38.410Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-22T17:04:44.900Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T21:39:50.915Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.2.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Configuration-driven Agent Skill catalog installer.
- **Author:** lion1ou
- **Maintainers:** lion1ou
- **Keywords:** agent, skills, cli, cursor, claude, codex
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.17
- **Artifact files:** 96
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 455,348 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@lion1ou/skill-ctl/v/1.2.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/lion1ou/skillctl>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/lion1ou/skillctl#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/lion1ou/skillctl/issues>)
