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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.9.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.9.4.md"
package: "@markjaquith/agency"
report_status: "published"
title: "@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.9.4"
---

# @markjaquith/agency@3.9.4 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:** 3.9.4
- **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 performs first-party agent extension setup in the user’s Pi directory, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. Source inspection found ownership safeguards and no concrete attack behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T09:55:12.752Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T09:56:44.663Z
- **Download time:** 1265 ms
- **Static scan time:** 12762 ms
- **AI review time:** 77881 ms
- **Total time:** 91911 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 agent extension into the user’s Pi extensions directory. This is an automatic agent extension setup, but the inspected code does not establish a concrete attack.

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

- **Impact:** The extension can add workbase instructions to Pi agent prompts. No network transfer or malicious control behavior was identified in the inspected source.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-pi-extension.ts, pi-extensions/agency.ts, src/services/IntegrationService.ts, src/commands/integration.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T09:56:44.663Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook copies the bundled extension and records an ownership hash; subsequent replacement and removal are limited to files verified as package-owned.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook performs first-party agent extension setup in the user’s Pi directory, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. Source inspection found ownership safeguards and no concrete attack behavior.

- **Files touched:** user home .pi/agent/extensions/agency.ts, user home .pi/agent/extensions/agency.ts.agency-managed.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The postinstall hook automatically installs the package’s Pi extension; preuninstall invokes its removal., The installer copies the bundled extension to the user’s Pi extensions directory and records ownership; it skips existing files it cannot verify as owned., The wider workbase and OpenCode integration sync is exposed as an explicit CLI subcommand., The integration service targets project workbase configuration, including agent instructions and OpenCode files.

- **Evidence against:** The installer refuses to replace a symlink or a file whose contents do not match its ownership record, and uninstall removes only a matching owned file., The bundled extension reads workbase instructions and adds them to the agent prompt; inspected source showed no network endpoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @markjaquith/agency@3.9.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of @markjaquith/agency@3.9.4 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@3.9.4/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@3.9.4/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@3.9.4/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@3.9.4/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@3.9.4/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:** fixtures/protocol/error.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4/fixtures/protocol/error.json>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 34
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/services/ReviewService.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4/src/services/ReviewService.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/services/ReviewService.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmtqYXF1aXRoL2FnZW5jeQ:3.3.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/services/TaskService.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4/src/services/TaskService.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/services/TaskService.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmtqYXF1aXRoL2FnZW5jeQ:3.3.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/process.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4/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
```

### 18. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/services/VersionControlService.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@markjaquith/agency@3.9.4/src/services/VersionControlService.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@3.7.0
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1hcmtqYXF1aXRoL2FnZW5jeQ:3.7.0
similarity = 0.967
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:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 8
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 16

### Published dependency entries
- @effect/schema ^0.75.5 (Dependency)
- @opentui/core 0.5.11 (Dependency)
- @opentui/solid 0.5.11 (Dependency)
- effect ^3.20.0 (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:** 3.9.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-16T04:51:00.362Z
- **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:** 3304
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 46,170,823 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@markjaquith/agency/v/3.9.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/markjaquith/agency/issues>)
