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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.23"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.23.md"
package: "@metaphi-ai/hum"
report_status: "published"
title: "@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.23"
---

# @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.23
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The postinstall and subprocess behavior serve the package’s own versioned core setup, and the CLI delegates work to that core when launched. Although the bootstrap executes an upstream installer, inspected source did not show a concrete attack chain or credential exfiltration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T06:54:27.176Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T06:55:10.389Z
- **Download time:** 772 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4839 ms
- **AI review time:** 37601 ms
- **Total time:** 43213 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:** No attack was identified in the inspected source. The automatic installer bootstraps Hum’s core, and the CLI starts that core when invoked.

- **Trigger:** npm installation runs the postinstall script; launching \`hum\` starts the CLI session.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior sets up and runs the package’s own product; no concrete malicious impact was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T06:55:10.389Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The installer invokes the Astral uv bootstrap when uv is absent, then installs Hum’s versioned Python core. The CLI delegates session work to that core.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall and subprocess behavior serve the package’s own versioned core setup, and the CLI delegates work to that core when launched. Although the bootstrap executes an upstream installer, inspected source did not show a concrete attack chain or credential exfiltration.

- **Files touched:** ~/.hum/versions/\<version\>/core, ~/.hum/versions/\<version\>/pkg

- **Network endpoints:** https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1, https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json links the CLI to a postinstall script and the \`hum\` launcher., dist/install.mjs uses the upstream Astral installer to bootstrap uv, then installs Hum’s Python core into a version-specific directory., dist/cli.mjs starts the core when a session is invoked; the inspected source did not establish credential harvesting or an unrelated exfiltration path.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall runs a shell command that pipes the Astral-hosted uv installer into the shell; this is automatic bootstrap behavior but is consistent with setting up Hum’s core.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23.

- Review the evidence and your use of @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23 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/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/install.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: // src/install.js
L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L3: import fs from "node:fs";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/install.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L117: say("installing uv (it creates the Python environment for the part of hum that does the work) \u2026");
L118: const r = win ? runImpl("powershell", ["-ExecutionPolicy", "ByPass", "-c", "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"], { stdio: "inherit" }) : runImpl("sh", ["-c", "curl -LsSf h...
L119: u = r && r.status === 0 ? uv() : null;
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/hum.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/bin/hum.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: const own = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(here, '..', 'package.json'), 'utf8')).version;
L26: const { chosenEntry } = await import(asUrl(path.join(here, '..', 'dist', 'install.mjs')));
L27: entry = chosenEntry(own) || entry;
```

### 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. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/cli.mjs>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L88877: import fs5 from "node:fs";
L88878: import net from "node:net";
L88879: import os5 from "node:os";
...
L88881: import crypto from "node:crypto";
L88882: import { spawn as spawn2, spawnSync as spawnSync3 } from "node:child_process";
L88883: function uvToolDirs() {
L88884: const dirs = [];
L88885: if (process.env.UV_TOOL_DIR) dirs.push(process.env.UV_TOOL_DIR);
L88886: if (win3) {
```

### 10. Critical: Browser Credential Phishing
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/cli.mjs>)

Source appears to collect browser login credentials for exfiltration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L485: "use strict";
L486: "production" !== process.env.NODE_ENV && (function() {
L487: function defineDeprecationWarning(methodName, info) {
...
L624: specialPropKeyWarningShown || (specialPropKeyWarningShown = true, console.error(
L625: "%s: `key` is not a prop. Trying to access it will result in `undefined` being returned. If you need to access the same value within the child component, you should pass it as a di...
L626: displayName
...
L1664: cwdFunction = isBrowser ? () => {
L1665: throw new Error("`process.cwd()` only works in Node.js, not the browser.");
L1666: } : process2.cwd;
...
L1768: }
L1769: const imageBuffer = Buffer.from(data);
L1770: return wrapOsc(returnValue + `;size=${imageBuffer.byteLength}:` + imageBuffer.toString("base64") + BEL);
```

### 11. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/cli.mjs>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4648: import process3 from "node:process";
L4649: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L4650: import fs from "node:fs";
...
L4705: try {
L4706: const statContents = fs.readFileSync("/proc/self/stat", "utf8");
L4707: const closingParenthesisIndex = statContents.lastIndexOf(") ");
...
L71088: /* metaparameters */
L71089: "alias audit before loglevel noop require subscribe tag owner ensure group mode name|0 changes context force incl lens load_path onlyif provider returns root show_diff type_check e...
L71090: ),
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.23/dist/cli.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.7
matchedPath = dist/cli.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG1ldGFwaGktYWkvaHVt:0.2.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @metaphi-ai/hum
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.23
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T19:43:25.592Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-25T02:05:34.392Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-15T01:56:26.983Z
- **Known versions:** 87
- **Latest version:** 0.2.65
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Hum: a self-improving coding agent for your terminal.
- **Maintainers:** chandwaniac
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,159,829 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.23>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum/issues>)
