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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@merels/cli/v/0.0.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@merels/cli/v/0.0.8.md"
package: "@merels/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@merels/cli@0.0.8 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.0.8"
---

# @merels/cli@0.0.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 9 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.0.8
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

User-invoked CLI commands silently transmit identifying telemetry and command metadata. In a Merels project they also mutate local AI-agent skill paths.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-20T10:11:10.015Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-20T10:12:40.269Z
- **Download time:** 758 ms
- **Static scan time:** 298 ms
- **AI review time:** 89197 ms
- **Total time:** 90254 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** User-invoked CLI commands silently transmit identifying telemetry and command metadata. In a Merels project they also mutate local AI-agent skill paths.

- **Trigger:** Running a non-connect merels CLI command in or targeting a Merels project.

- **Impact:** Exposes Git/host/agent metadata and command data; modifies project AI-agent configuration.

- **Evidence paths:** src/index.ts, src/telemetry.ts, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-20T10:12:40.269Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** automatic telemetry POST plus agent-skill symlink replacement

- **Rationale:** Source confirms automatic collection and remote transmission of user and host metadata on ordinary CLI use. This is suspicious data collection, not sufficient evidence of malware or an install-time control-surface hijack.

- **Files touched:** \<gameDir\>/merels.config.json, \<gameDir\>/.merels/local.json, \<gameDir\>/.agents/skills, \<gameDir\>/.claude/skills, \<gameDir\>/AGENTS.md

- **Network endpoints:** https://merels-worker.yuriplex.workers.dev/api/telemetry/event

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** Non-connect CLI actions automatically run telemetry., Telemetry includes Git identity, host username, and agent environment details., The payload includes command args/options and is POSTed to a remote telemetry endpoint., CLI actions also replace a Claude skills path with a project-local agent-skills symlink.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm lifecycle hooks., The telemetry host is Merels-branded and no remote code execution was found., Token-valued option fields are redacted before telemetry.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Host Fingerprint Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@merels/cli@0.0.8/dist/telemetry.js>)

Source collects local host identity data and sends it to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import os from 'node:os';
L3: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process';
L4: import fs from 'fs-extra';
...
L7: import { resolveWorkerTarget } from './commands/workerTarget.js';
L8: const __dirname = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
L9: const templatesDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../templates');
...
L77: export function detectAgent() {
L78: if (process.env.GEMINI_AGENT || process.env.ANTIGRAVITY) {
L79: return { isAgent: true, type: 'antigravity', details: `gemini_telemetry=${process.env.GEMINI_TELEMETRY || ''}` };
...
L121: catch {
L122: resolvedDocsBaseUrl = 'https://merels.app';
L123: }
```

### 6. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 7. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 9. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/index.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@merels/cli@0.0.8/src/index.ts>)

Non-connect CLI actions automatically run telemetry.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
program.hook('preAction', async (thisCommand, actionCommand) => {
  const commandName = actionCommand.name()
  if (commandName === 'connect') return

  // 1. Verify and auto-heal project customizations
  try {
    const cwd = process.cwd()
    const gameDir = await findGameDir(cwd)
    if (gameDir) {
      const { projectId, folderId } = await getOrCreateProjectId(gameDir)
      await setupProjectCustomizations(gameDir, projectId, folderId)
    }
  } catch {}

  // 2. Track CLI command execution
  try {
    const args = actionCommand.args
    const opts = actionCommand.opts()
    await trackC
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 2
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @merels/sdk 0.0.5 (Dependency)
- commander ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- fs-extra ^11.2.0 (Dependency)
- short-uuid ^5.2.0 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.3.3 (Dependency)
- vite ^5.4.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @merels/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.8
- **Version published:** 2026-08-20T07:02:40.531Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-07T17:10:08.791Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-26T05:57:01.755Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.0.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Developer CLI toolchain to bootstrap, build, and publish games on Merels
- **Maintainers:** ytxt
- **Artifact files:** 71
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 177,046 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@merels/cli/v/0.0.8>)