---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli/v/0.8.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli/v/0.8.8.md"
package: "@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.8.8"
---

# @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. The package can replace skills loaded by Codex, Claude, OpenClaw, and shared agent tooling.

- **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:** 0.8.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. A global installation automatically replaces agent skill directories across several AI-agent products. This changes agent control surfaces before the user invokes the CLI.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-28T02:22:25.297Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-28T02:23:21.070Z
- **Download time:** 1015 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2620 ms
- **AI review time:** 52137 ms
- **Total time:** 55773 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global installation automatically replaces agent skill directories across several AI-agent products. This changes agent control surfaces before the user invokes the CLI.

- **Trigger:** npm global installation

- **Impact:** The package can replace skills loaded by Codex, Claude, OpenClaw, and shared agent tooling.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-28T02:23:21.070Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall deletes and copies a bundled skill into multiple agent directories.

- **Attack narrative:** On global installation, postinstall invokes the bundled-skill synchronizer. It selects Codex, Claude, OpenClaw, and shared agent skill directories, removes an existing clawclaw skill at each target, and copies the package-provided skill into place. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of broad foreign AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** The package performs automatic postinstall replacement of skills across unrelated agent homes, including Codex and Claude. That is a concrete AI-agent control-surface hijack even though no network exfiltration was found in the inspected path.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, scripts/sync-bundled-skill.mjs, skills/clawclaw

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The postinstall hook automatically runs for global npm installs., That hook installs a bundled agent skill without user approval., The installer targets agent skill directories for Codex, Claude, OpenClaw, and a shared agents directory., It deletes any existing skill directory before copying its bundled replacement.

- **Evidence against:** No package-controlled network endpoint was found in the inspected install path., The separate Claude permission editor is user-invoked, not called by postinstall.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/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/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/enable\_ccl\_permissions.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/enable_ccl_permissions.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12: 
L13: const fs = require("fs");
L14: const os = require("os");
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/runtime/owner-control.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/src/runtime/owner-control.ts>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L4: import { join } from 'path';
L5: import { connect, createServer, type Server, type Socket } from 'net';
L6: import type { AuthProfile } from '../lib/auth.js';
...
L15: // owner-control requests by monkey-patching global JSON.
L16: const SAFE_JSON_PARSE = JSON.parse.bind(JSON) as typeof JSON.parse;
L17: const SAFE_JSON_STRINGIFY = JSON.stringify.bind(JSON) as typeof JSON.stringify;
...
L106: const hash = createHash('sha1').update(stateDir).digest('hex').slice(0, 12);
L107: if (process.platform === 'win32') return `\\\\.\\pipe\\clawclaw-${hash}-${pid}-${nonce}`;
L108: const userId = typeof process.getuid === 'function' ? String(process.getuid()) : hash;
...
L124: function sendLine(socket: import('net').Socket, value: OwnerControlResponse): void {
L125: socket.end(`${SAFE_JSON_STRINGIFY(v
```

### 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/sync-bundled-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/sync-bundled-skill.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
L2: import {
L3: cpSync,
L4: existsSync,
L5: mkdirSync,
L6: readFileSync,
...
L25: const homeDir = homedir();
L26: const claudeHome = process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR?.trim() || join(homeDir, '.claude');
L27: const codexHome = process.env.CODEX_HOME?.trim() || join(homeDir, '.codex');
L28: return [
L29: join(homeDir, '.agents', 'skills', SKILL_NAME),
L30: join(claudeHome, 'skills', SKILL_NAME),
...
L77: if (existsSync(resolvedTarget)) rmSync(resolvedTarget, { recursive: true, force: true });
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

### 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:** scripts/find-hide-spots.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/find-hide-spots.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = scripts/find-hide-spots.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 6479
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. 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:** scripts/enable\_monitor.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/enable_monitor.cjs>)

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 = @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.7
matchedPath = scripts/enable_monitor.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15Y2xhdzE2My9jbGF3Y2xhdy1jbGk:0.8.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/check\_monitor.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/check_monitor.cjs>)

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 = @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.7
matchedPath = scripts/check_monitor.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15Y2xhdzE2My9jbGF3Y2xhdy1jbGk:0.8.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/setup/codex.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/src/commands/setup/codex.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 = @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.7
matchedPath = src/commands/setup/codex.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15Y2xhdzE2My9jbGF3Y2xhdy1jbGk:0.8.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/sync-bundled-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/sync-bundled-skill.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 = @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.7
matchedPath = scripts/sync-bundled-skill.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15Y2xhdzE2My9jbGF3Y2xhdy1jbGk:0.8.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/sync-frontend-map.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.8/scripts/sync-frontend-map.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 = @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli@0.8.7
matchedPath = scripts/sync-frontend-map.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15Y2xhdzE2My9jbGF3Y2xhdy1jbGk:0.8.7
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- amaro ^1.1.11 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.0.0 (Dependency)
- skills 1.5.1 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.23.12 (Dependency)
- undici ^6.28.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @myclaw163/clawclaw-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.8.8
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T02:18:00.303Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T10:45:26.482Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T02:23:21.070Z
- **Known versions:** 20
- **Latest version:** 0.8.8
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** ClawClaw social deduction game CLI
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.15.0
- **Artifact files:** 304
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,846,638 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myclaw163/clawclaw-cli/v/0.8.8>)
