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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.22.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.22.0.md"
package: "@markjaquith/agency"
report_status: "published"
title: "@markjaquith/agency@3.22.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.22.0"
---

# @markjaquith/agency@3.22.0 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:** 3.22.0
- **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 postinstall hook automatically installs a package-owned agent extension into a global Pi configuration location, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. Its inspected behavior is workbase-scoped, and the source does not establish a concrete attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-16T19:55:17.443Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-16T19:57:52.625Z
- **Download time:** 6676 ms
- **Static scan time:** 13722 ms
- **AI review time:** 134781 ms
- **Total time:** 155182 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 places a first-party Pi extension in the user's global extensions directory, where Pi can load it in later sessions. The extension reads Agency workbase context and exposes resources for validated writable checkouts; no concrete exfiltration or destructive behavior was identified.

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

- **Impact:** The package automatically adds an agent extension that can participate in later Pi sessions, creating residual agent extension lifecycle risk.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-16T19:57:52.625Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook copies the bundled extension to the global Pi extension path; the extension then registers session and resource discovery callbacks.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook automatically installs a package-owned agent extension into a global Pi configuration location, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. Its inspected behavior is workbase-scoped, and the source does not establish a concrete attack.

- **Files touched:** scripts/install-pi-extension.ts, pi-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 copies the package's extension into the user's global Pi extensions directory., The extension registers session and resource discovery callbacks that load Agency workbase context.

- **Evidence against:** The installer skips an existing extension it cannot verify as package-managed, and updates only a matching managed copy., The extension uses the Agency CLI to discover workbase context and limits resource discovery to a validated writable checkout.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @markjaquith/agency@3.22.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @markjaquith/agency@3.22.0 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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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@3.22.0/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
```

## 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:** 3.22.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-16T19:52:23.784Z
- **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:** 3318
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 46,322,575 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.22.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency/issues>)
