---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.31"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.31.md"
package: "@metaphi-ai/hum"
report_status: "published"
title: "@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.31"
---

# @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31 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:** 0.2.31
- **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 source supports a warning for automatic setup of the package's own agent core, including execution of an external installer when uv is missing. No source evidence inspected confirms credential exfiltration or another concrete attack, so this does not warrant blocking publication.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 83.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T06:55:24.561Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T06:56:01.447Z
- **Download time:** 1013 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5140 ms
- **AI review time:** 30732 ms
- **Total time:** 36886 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 automatic postinstall can provision and execute the package's coding-agent core. This is a lifecycle setup risk, with no confirmed credential theft or unrelated project mutation found in the inspected source.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package with npm, which runs its postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** Setup executes additional software during installation, and later CLI use delegates task work to the Hum core.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/install.mjs, dist/cli.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T06:56:01.447Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook provisions a Python environment and may run a shell command to install uv; the CLI launches the Hum core for a requested task.

- **Rationale:** The source supports a warning for automatic setup of the package's own agent core, including execution of an external installer when uv is missing. No source evidence inspected confirms credential exfiltration or another concrete attack, so this does not warrant blocking publication.

- **Files touched:** ~/.hum

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 83.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json runs a postinstall script that installs the package's Python core., The installer can fetch and run uv's shell installer and set up a Python environment during postinstall., The CLI starts the Hum core with the user's working directory and task arguments., The CLI's update service defaults to hum.metaphi.ai.

- **Evidence against:** The installed core is the package's own coding-agent component, consistent with its stated purpose., The inspected source showed no browser credential collection or credential exfiltration.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31.

- Review the evidence and your use of @metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31 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@0.2.31/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@0.2.31/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@0.2.31/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/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31/dist/cli.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L70609: 
L70610: // node_modules/highlight.js/lib/languages/powershell.js
L70611: var require_powershell = __commonJS({
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/hum.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31/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: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. Critical: Browser Credential Phishing
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31/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@0.2.31/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(") ");
...
L71174: /* metaparameters */
L71175: "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...
L71176: ),
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 13. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@metaphi-ai/hum@0.2.31/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:** 0.2.31
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T03:44:47.455Z
- **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:** 4,197,092 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@metaphi-ai/hum/v/0.2.31>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/metaphi-labs/hum/issues>)
