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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.11.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.11.0.md"
package: "@makerx/yoke"
report_status: "published"
title: "@makerx/yoke@0.11.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.11.0"
---

# @makerx/yoke@0.11.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 13 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:** 0.11.0
- **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 manifest has no install hook, and the flagged CLI behavior is consistent with the package’s documented review and skill-management purpose. Credentials are used with configured provider endpoints, while the Azure token exchange follows the GitHub Actions OIDC flow.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T09:32:55.982Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T09:34:36.157Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 282 ms
- **AI review time:** 99129 ms
- **Total time:** 100175 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 identified; observed process, network, and file operations serve the package’s CLI features.

- **Trigger:** Explicit invocation of commands such as yoke review, yoke sync, or yoke review-ci.

- **Impact:** Expected review and setup behavior; no automatic credential collection, unrelated transmission, or hidden configuration change was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T09:34:36.157Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI runs review tools and routes credentials to the configured provider; sync writes the package’s skills to the documented Claude skills directory.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install hook, and the flagged CLI behavior is consistent with the package’s documented review and skill-management purpose. Credentials are used with configured provider endpoints, while the Azure token exchange follows the GitHub Actions OIDC flow.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills, ~/.claude/skills

- **Network endpoints:** login.microsoftonline.com, token.actions.githubusercontent.com, GitHub/provider endpoints used by explicitly invoked CLI features

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes dist/cli.js as a CLI binary and has no install lifecycle hook; prepublishOnly only builds the package., Provider URLs and API credentials are supplied through settings or environment variables, and the CLI derives request endpoints from the configured base URL., The Entra token exchange uses GitHub Actions OIDC and sends the assertion to login.microsoftonline.com for a Foundry access token., Review and skill synchronization are documented as user-invoked CLI commands.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI uses child-process execution, network requests, and filesystem writes as part of its review, configuration, and skill-management functions., Review credentials are passed to the selected provider endpoint; a user-configured endpoint could be a third-party service.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @makerx/yoke@0.11.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @makerx/yoke@0.11.0 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/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.11.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L290: // src/features/pr/raise.ts
L291: import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
L292:
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 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. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.11.0/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
"litellm.baseUrl": setting("LiteLLM proxy URL"),
"litellm.apiKey": secret("LiteLLM API key. Env or --user config only"),
"foundry.baseUrl": setting("https://<resource>.services.ai.azure.com"),
"foundry.apiKey": secret("Foundry API key. Env or --user config only"),
import { chmodSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "fs";
"Repo-level config is not supported: it would put the API key in the repo. Pass --user to write the user-level yoke config."
writeFileSync(path, `${JSON.stringify(file, null, 2)}
import { existsSync as existsSync2, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync2, writeFileS
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.11.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1950: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L1951: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L1952: if (!ok) return false;
...
L1961: try {
L1962: const response = await fetch(url, {
L1963: method: "POST",
L1964: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L1965: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L1966: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(probeTimeout)
```

### 10. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.11.0/dist/cli.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
telling the user to commit and push the workflow file.

if \`yoke\` is not found, run \`npm i -g @makerx/yoke\` and retry.
`
};

                               
var reviewskill = {
  name: "review",
  description: "adversarially review a pr with claude and codex, then combine their findings.",
  disablemodelinvocation: true,
  body: `
run \`yoke review $arguments\` in the foreground, not as a background task, with the longest timeout your shell tool allows, so the user sees each reviewer's progress as it streams; two reviewers and a synthesis pass take several minutes. then relay the findings it printed. do not add findings of your own or re-review the code. each reviewer's tool calls go to \`review.
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.11.0/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js
L1950: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L1951: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L1952: if (!ok) return false;
...
L1961: try {
L1962: const response = await fetch(url, {
L1963: method: "POST",
L1964: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L1965: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L1966: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(probeTimeout)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^15.0.0 (Dependency)
- log-update ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.6.7 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @makerx/yoke
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.11.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T08:30:46.867Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-23T06:52:48.546Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T06:08:47.980Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 0.16.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lean, user-invoked Claude Code skills for MakerX AI-assisted delivery, plus the CLI they call.
- **Author:** MakerX
- **Maintainers:** patrick.dinh, makerx-engineering, makerxuser, plebsori, vatsalyagoel
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 109,297 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.11.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke/issues>)
