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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.8.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.8.1.md"
package: "@makerx/yoke"
report_status: "published"
title: "@makerx/yoke@0.8.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.8.1"
---

# @makerx/yoke@0.8.1 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:** 0.8.1
- **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, network, and agent-configuration behaviors are used by the package’s CLI features and are triggered by explicit commands. Model credentials are sent to the configured provider endpoint, while skill files are written by \`yoke sync\`.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T04:48:53.553Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T04:49:40.251Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 244 ms
- **AI review time:** 46193 ms
- **Total time:** 46698 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. The flagged capabilities serve the package’s user-invoked CLI functions.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when a user invokes a command; \`sync\`, review, and provider probes run through their respective commands.

- **Impact:** Expected PR review, provider connectivity checks, and skill setup; no malicious collection or unrequested agent configuration change was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T04:49:40.251Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Review commands use \`gh\` for PR operations and send minimal model probes to the configured provider URL with its API key. \`sync\` writes the package’s bundled Claude Code skills.

- **Rationale:** The flagged process, network, and agent-configuration behaviors are used by the package’s CLI features and are triggered by explicit commands. Model credentials are sent to the configured provider endpoint, while skill files are written by \`yoke sync\`.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills/\<skill\>/SKILL.md, ~/.claude/skills/\<skill\>/SKILL.md, .github/workflows/review-pr.yml

- **Network endpoints:** github.com, User-configured model provider base URL

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **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 and its \`prepublishOnly\` script only runs the build., Model probes use the configured provider base URL and send the provider API key with a minimal \`ping\` request., GitHub operations use the installed \`gh\` CLI as part of PR commands., Agent skill files are written only by the explicit \`yoke sync\` command, to the project or user \`.claude/skills\` directory.

- **Evidence against:** The scanner’s command execution and network signals correspond to the package’s CLI review and provider-probe features., The scanner’s agent configuration write signal corresponds to a user-invoked skill synchronization command.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @makerx/yoke@0.8.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @makerx/yoke@0.8.1 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@0.8.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L285: // src/features/pr/raise.ts
L286: import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
L287:
```

### 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: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@makerx/yoke@0.8.1/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1793: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L1794: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L1795: if (!ok) return false;
...
L1804: try {
L1805: const response = await fetch(url, {
L1806: method: "POST",
L1807: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L1808: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L1809: signal: AbortSignal.timeout(probeTimeout)
```

### 9. 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@0.8.1/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.
```

### 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@0.8.1/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
L1793: async function claudeSignedIn() {
L1794: const { ok, stdout } = await exec("claude", ["auth", "status", "--json"]);
L1795: if (!ok) return false;
...
L1804: try {
L1805: const response = await fetch(url, {
L1806: method: "POST",
L1807: headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json", ...headers },
L1808: body: JSON.stringify(body),
L1809: 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:** 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:** 0.8.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T04:42:53.317Z
- **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:** 99,621 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@makerx/yoke/v/0.8.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/MakerXStudio/yoke/issues>)
