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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.19.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.19.0.md"
package: "@markjaquith/agency"
report_status: "published"
title: "@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.19.0"
---

# @markjaquith/agency@3.19.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 3.19.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The automatic postinstall installs a first-party agent extension, which is a guarded agent-extension lifecycle risk under the review policy. The source shows ownership checks for existing files and no concrete malicious behavior in the inspected paths.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T20:05:29.558Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T20:06:19.993Z
- **Download time:** 3593 ms
- **Static scan time:** 13105 ms
- **AI review time:** 33734 ms
- **Total time:** 50435 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:** The postinstall hook installs a package-owned extension into the user’s Pi agent extensions directory. This is a guarded first-party agent extension setup and no broader confirmed attack surface was identified.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package through npm runs its postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** The extension becomes available to the user’s Pi agent. No credential access or exfiltration was established from the inspected evidence.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-pi-extension.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T20:06:19.993Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook copies the bundled extension into the user’s Pi agent extensions directory; existing files are protected unless ownership can be verified.

- **Rationale:** The automatic postinstall installs a first-party agent extension, which is a guarded agent-extension lifecycle risk under the review policy. The source shows ownership checks for existing files and no concrete malicious behavior in the inspected paths.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/install-pi-extension.ts, ~/.pi/agent/extensions/agency.ts

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The postinstall hook automatically runs the extension installer., The installer targets the user’s Pi agent extensions directory., Installation creates the destination directory and copies the bundled extension when no file exists there., Uninstall removes the extension only when its ownership hash matches., Integration inspection also targets project-level agent and OpenCode configuration paths.

- **Evidence against:** The installer skips an existing destination it cannot verify as package-managed., No evidence inspected here shows credential collection, exfiltration, or a broader agent-control write.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @markjaquith/agency@3.19.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @markjaquith/agency@3.19.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = bun scripts/install-pi-extension.ts install
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = bun scripts/install-pi-extension.ts install
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/interactive-loader.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/src/utils/interactive-loader.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L3: const preload = ["@opentui", "solid", "preload"].join("/")
L4: await import(preload)
L5: return import("./interactive")
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 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: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/@opentui/core-linux-x64/libopentui.so
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/node_modules/%40opentui/core-linux-x64/libopentui.so>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/@opentui/core-linux-x64/libopentui.so
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 6312560
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/@opentui/core/assets/zig/tree-sitter-zig.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/node_modules/%40opentui/core/assets/zig/tree-sitter-zig.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = node_modules/@opentui/core/assets/zig/tree-sitter-zig.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 691726
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** node\_modules/@babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/node_modules/%40babel/core/lib/config/files/plugins.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 = 26
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/process.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/src/utils/process.ts>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @markjaquith/agency@3.3.0
matchedPath = src/utils/process.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmtqYXF1aXRoL2FnZW5jeQ:3.3.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/services/ReviewService.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.19.0/src/services/ReviewService.ts>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @markjaquith/agency@3.16.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmtqYXF1aXRoL2FnZW5jeQ:3.16.0
similarity = 0.883
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, preuninstall
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 8
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @opentui/core 0.5.11 (Dependency)
- @opentui/solid 0.5.11 (Dependency)
- effect ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- solid-js 1.9.12 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.9.3 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter 0.25.10 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- @opentui/core-darwin-arm64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-darwin-x64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-linux-arm64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-linux-arm64-musl 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-linux-x64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-linux-x64-musl 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-win32-arm64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)
- @opentui/core-win32-x64 0.5.11 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @markjaquith/agency
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.19.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-10T19:59:26.191Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T00:25:11.533Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-19T21:19:01.051Z
- **Known versions:** 90
- **Latest version:** 3.27.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Manage agentic work across repositories with durable workbases
- **Author:** Mark Jaquith
- **Maintainers:** markjaquith
- **Keywords:** agents, bun, typescript, worktrees
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.3.0
- **Artifact files:** 3311
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 46,270,904 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.19.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency/issues>)
