---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@muggleai/works/v/5.13.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@muggleai/works/v/5.13.1.md"
package: "@muggleai/works"
report_status: "published"
title: "@muggleai/works@5.13.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.13.1"
---

# @muggleai/works@5.13.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. A package install can alter the user's Cursor agent configuration and make the package command available as an MCP server.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 5.13.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installing the package automatically modifies Cursor's user-wide skills and MCP configuration. It registers a command that can be started by the AI-agent host.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-05T04:07:43.664Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-05T04:08:33.457Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2084 ms
- **AI review time:** 47203 ms
- **Total time:** 49793 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package automatically modifies Cursor's user-wide skills and MCP configuration. It registers a command that can be started by the AI-agent host.

- **Trigger:** npm installation runs the postinstall lifecycle hook.

- **Impact:** A package install can alter the user's Cursor agent configuration and make the package command available as an MCP server.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-05T04:08:33.457Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Automatic mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface.

- **Attack narrative:** On npm installation, the postinstall script copies package-controlled skills into the user's Cursor skills directory and rewrites the user-wide Cursor MCP configuration to register \`muggle serve\`. These actions occur without an explicit setup command and change an external AI-agent control surface. The same hook also downloads an Electron binary to the user's home directory.

- **Rationale:** This is an unconsented postinstall mutation of a foreign, user-wide AI-agent control surface. Integrity checks on the downloaded binary do not mitigate the automatic Cursor configuration and skill installation.

- **Files touched:** ~/.cursor/skills/\<muggle skill\>, ~/.cursor/mcp.json, ~/.muggle-ai

- **Network endpoints:** github.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The package registers a postinstall lifecycle hook., Postinstall copies packaged skills into the user's Cursor skills directory., Postinstall adds a muggle MCP server entry to the user's Cursor configuration., The lifecycle entry performs these mutations automatically during npm installation.

- **Evidence against:** No runtime dependency on this package's own name is declared., The downloaded Electron archive is checksum- and signature-verified.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14: import { platform, homedir, arch } from 'os';
L15: import { execFile } from 'child_process';
L16: import { pipeline } from 'stream/promises';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1845: execFile(
L1846: "powershell",
L1847: ["-command", `Expand-Archive -Path '${zipPath}' -DestinationPath '${destDir}' -Force`],
```

### 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. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: import {
L12: cpSync,
L13: readFileSync,
L14: appendFileSync,
L15: createReadStream,
...
L17: existsSync,
L18: mkdirSync,
L19: readdirSync,
L20: rmSync,
L21: writeFileSync,
L22: } from "fs";
...
L69: const logDir = join(homedir(), ".muggle-ai");
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js spawns dist/chunk-H5UDFKG3.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L12: import { Command } from 'commander';
L13: import axios from 'axios';
L14: import { platform, homedir, arch } from 'os';
L15: import { execFile } from 'child_process';
L16: import { pipeline } from 'stream/promises';
...
L584: if (inlineBytes <= opts.maxBodyBytes) {
L585: return { body: inlineBody, comment: null };
L586: }
...
L704: }
L705: async function resolveOne(gsUrl, baseUrl, headers, stderrWrite) {
L706: try {
...
L809: for await (const chunk of stream) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/scripts/reconcile-stale-watchers.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/plugin/scripts/reconcile-stale-watchers.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = dist/plugin/scripts/reconcile-stale-watchers.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 4376
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** config/runtime-targets.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/config/runtime-targets.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 = 3
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-H5UDFKG3.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/chunk-H5UDFKG3.js>)

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 = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/chunk-H5UDFKG3.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/scripts/postinstall.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 = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/chunk-7WL6LFIU.js>)

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 = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/chunk-TWRBO35Z.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/dist/plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/plugin/scripts/guardrail-record-comment-replies.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@muggleai/works@5.13.1/plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @muggleai/works@5.13.0
matchedPath = dist/plugin/scripts/pr-watch-arm.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:QG11Z2dsZWFpL3dvcmtz:5.13.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 18
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.25.3 (Dependency)
- applicationinsights ^3.14.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.7.9 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- open ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- sigstore ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- ulid ^3.0.2 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- winston ^3.17.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @muggleai/works
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.13.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-05T04:03:52.627Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T11:18:49.335Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-05T04:08:33.457Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 5.13.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Ship quality products with AI-powered E2E acceptance testing that validates your web app like a real user — from Claude Code and Cursor to PR.
- **Author:** Muggle AI
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, muggle-ai, e2e-testing, testing, automation, localhost, ai-coding, user-experience, cursor, claude-code, vibe-coding
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 517
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,131,034 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@muggleai/works/v/5.13.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://www.muggle-ai.com/muggleTestV0/docs/mcp/mcp-overview>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/multiplex-ai/muggle-ai-works/issues>)