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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.16.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.16.0.md"
package: "@makerx/yoke"
report_status: "published"
title: "@makerx/yoke@0.16.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.16.0"
---

# @makerx/yoke@0.16.0 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:** 0.16.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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 source uses subprocesses, provider requests, and credential handling as part of the CLI's review workflow. Credentials are routed through configured provider settings, and the Microsoft endpoint flow is a documented Foundry/GitHub OIDC token exchange; no malicious behavior was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T06:08:19.988Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T06:08:47.980Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 340 ms
- **AI review time:** 27392 ms
- **Total time:** 27992 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 CLI runs reviews using configured providers and credentials.

- **Trigger:** The user invokes a \`yoke\` command, such as the review command.

- **Impact:** No unauthorized credential transfer or other malicious impact was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T06:08:47.980Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI passes provider credentials to the configured provider endpoint; its Foundry CI flow can exchange GitHub OIDC for an Azure token.

- **Rationale:** The source uses subprocesses, provider requests, and credential handling as part of the CLI's review workflow. Credentials are routed through configured provider settings, and the Microsoft endpoint flow is a documented Foundry/GitHub OIDC token exchange; no malicious behavior was identified.

- **Files touched:** User-configured review output and configuration paths

- **Network endpoints:** login.microsoftonline.com, cognitiveservices.azure.com, user-configured provider base URL

### 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 exposes \`dist/cli.js\` as its \`yoke\` command and has only a \`prepublishOnly\` build script; no install hook is declared., Provider credentials are passed to the configured provider URL for Claude or Codex use., Foundry GitHub OIDC credentials are exchanged with Microsoft Entra for an Azure Cognitive Services token., The review command runs when explicitly invoked by the user.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI uses subprocesses and network requests, but these support its documented review and model-provider functions., The flagged Anthropic credential redirect is not a fixed unofficial gateway: the provider base URL comes from configuration., No automatic credential collection or unrelated credential destination was identified.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @makerx/yoke@0.16.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @makerx/yoke@0.16.0 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@0.16.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L312: // src/features/pr/raise.ts
L313: import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
L314:
```

### 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@0.16.0/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"),
var settingsHelp = "\nEach setting falls back to its YOKE_* env var, then `yoke config set --user`; API keys come from env or config only. Run `yoke config` to see them all.";
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-
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.16.0/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2296: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L2297: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L2298: if (!ok) return false;
...
L2307: try {
L2308: const response = await fetch(url, {
L2309: method: "POST",
L2310: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L2311: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L2312: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(probeTimeout)
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.16.0/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
L2296: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L2297: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L2298: if (!ok) return false;
...
L2307: try {
L2308: const response = await fetch(url, {
L2309: method: "POST",
L2310: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L2311: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L2312: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(probeTimeout)
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 12. 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:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^15.0.0 (Dependency)
- log-update ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.1 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.6.7 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @makerx/yoke
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.16.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T06:03:26.712Z
- **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:** 132,508 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.16.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke/issues>)
