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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.27.0"
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package: "@markjaquith/agency"
report_status: "published"
title: "@markjaquith/agency@3.27.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.27.0"
---

# @markjaquith/agency@3.27.0 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:** 3.27.0
- **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 global setup of a package-owned agent extension presents a residual lifecycle risk under the agent-extension review policy. Source inspection found ownership safeguards and workbase-scoped prompt integration, with no confirmed attack behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-17T22:33:55.624Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-17T22:34:45.612Z
- **Download time:** 2037 ms
- **Static scan time:** 13802 ms
- **AI review time:** 34145 ms
- **Total time:** 49988 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 first-party Pi extension into the user’s global extension directory. When Pi loads it in an Agency workbase, it can add workbase instructions and guidance to the agent’s system prompt; no confirmed attack was identified.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package, followed by starting a Pi session in an Agency workbase.

- **Impact:** The extension changes agent behavior in matching workbases. Its global lifecycle installation leaves a residual agent-extension lifecycle risk, but inspected source did not establish malicious behavior.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-17T22:34:45.612Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The lifecycle installer copies or updates the package-owned extension; the extension reads workbase context and adds relevant instructions to the system prompt.

- **Rationale:** The automatic global setup of a package-owned agent extension presents a residual lifecycle risk under the agent-extension review policy. Source inspection found ownership safeguards and workbase-scoped prompt integration, with no confirmed attack behavior.

- **Files touched:** ~/.pi/agent/extensions/agency.ts

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The postinstall hook automatically runs the package’s Pi extension installer., The installer places the package-owned extension in the user’s global Pi extensions directory and copies it there when absent., On later installs, the installer updates the extension only when its ownership record and current file hash match., The extension adds Agency instructions and workbase guidance to Pi’s system prompt when an Agency workbase is found., The integration service inspects project-level Agency and OpenCode configuration paths.

- **Evidence against:** The extension uses workbase context and project skill paths; inspected source showed no network transfer., The installer skips an existing extension it cannot prove it owns, and uninstall removes only a matching owned file.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @markjaquith/agency@3.27.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @markjaquith/agency@3.27.0 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@3.27.0/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@3.27.0/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@3.27.0/src/utils/interactive-loader.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 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@3.27.0/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@3.27.0/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@3.27.0/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
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preuninstall
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 8
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **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:** 3.27.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-17T22:17:16.605Z
- **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:** 3346
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 46,725,228 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.27.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency/issues>)
