---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp/v/3.0.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp/v/3.0.7.md"
package: "@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp"
report_status: "published"
title: "@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "3.0.7"
---

# @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Hijacks behavior of installed AI coding agents without user approval and establishes a package-controlled discovery path.

- **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:** 3.0.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Unconsented postinstall downloads a native launcher and alters existing third-party AI-agent instruction/control files. The injected rules force use of the package's MCP server and restrict normal discovery tools.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-30T17:11:36.820Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-30T17:12:05.687Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 692 ms
- **AI review time:** 27917 ms
- **Total time:** 28867 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Unconsented postinstall downloads a native launcher and alters existing third-party AI-agent instruction/control files. The injected rules force use of the package's MCP server and restrict normal discovery tools.

- **Trigger:** npm installation invokes postinstall: node bin/synapse-mcp.js install --quiet.

- **Impact:** Hijacks behavior of installed AI coding agents without user approval and establishes a package-controlled discovery path.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/synapse-mcp.js, lib/install.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-30T17:12:05.687Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** silent binary download plus foreign AI-agent control-surface rule injection

- **Attack narrative:** On npm install, the quiet postinstall downloads a platform launcher to ~/.synapse-mcp and invokes it for a version check. The installer then silently appends a mandatory “MCP-First Discovery Policy” to existing Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline agent files. That policy requires the package’s Synapse MCP server as the exclusive discovery engine and forbids normal filesystem search tools, changing unrelated agents’ behavior without consent.

- **Rationale:** This is a concrete, unconsented postinstall mutation of broad foreign AI-agent control surfaces, not merely an explicit setup command. The forced rules redirect agent behavior to a downloaded package-controlled service.

- **Files touched:** package.json, bin/synapse-mcp.js, lib/install.js, ~/.gemini/config/AGENTS.md, ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.cursorrules, ~/.windsurfrules, ~/.clinerules

- **Network endpoints:** https://downloads.synapse-mcp.dev/synapse-mcp/3.0.7/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall silently., bin/synapse-mcp.js routes install --quiet to lib/install.js., lib/install.js downloads and executes a launcher during postinstall., lib/install.js appends mandatory Synapse rules to foreign AI-agent files., Rules force Synapse as the exclusive discovery engine and prohibit normal file-search tools., Writes target Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline control files when their directories exist.

- **Evidence against:** Downloaded launcher path is version-pinned to 3.0.7., The package has legitimate local MCP/service-management functionality., No source evidence of credential exfiltration by the Node wrapper.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/synapse-mcp.js install --quiet || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/synapse-mcp.js install --quiet || true
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/synapse-mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/bin/synapse-mcp.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L45: const os           = require('node:os');
L46: const childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L47:
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/service-os.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/service-os.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: *   Linux   → systemd user unit (~/.config/systemd/user/synapse-mcp.service)
L9: *   Windows → Task Scheduler (schtasks)
L10: *
...
L37: function homeDir(options) {
L38: return options.homeDir || process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || os.homedir();
L39: }
...
L62: 
L63: function buildPlist(launcherPath, port, stdoutLog, stderrLog) {
L64: return `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
...
L114: fs.writeFileSync(plist, buildPlist(launcher, port, stdoutLog, stderrLog));
L115: execSync(`launchctl load -w ${plist}`);
L116:
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/synapse-mcp.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/bin/synapse-mcp.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L45: const os           = require('node:os');
L46: const childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L47: 
...
L49: 
L50: const PROD_API_BASE        = 'https://api.synapse-mcp.dev';
L51: const DEFAULT_API_BASE     =
L52: (process.env.SYNAPSE_API_URL || process.env.SYNAPSE_MCP_API_BASE || PROD_API_BASE)
L53: .replace(/\/+$/, '');
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** lib/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/install.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: *  - Install dir:  ~/.synapse-mcp/
L9: *  - CDN base:     https://downloads.synapse-mcp.dev/synapse-mcp
L10: *  - Supported platforms: darwin-aarch64, darwin-x86_64, linux-x86_64,
...
L23: const crypto      = require('node:crypto');
L24: const childProcess = require('node:child_process');
L25: const os          = require('node:os');
...
L56: function platformId() {
L57: if (process.platform === 'linux'  && process.arch === 'x64')   return 'linux-x86_64';
L58: if (process.platform === 'linux'  && process.arch === 'arm64') return 'linux-aarch64';
...
L71: const baseUrl = options.baseUrl ||
L72: process.env.SYNAPSE_MCP_BASE_URL ||
L73: DEFAULT_BASE_URL;
```

### 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. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/server.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 = @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.6
matchedPath = lib/server.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15ZWxpeGxhYnMvc3luYXBzZS1tY3A:3.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/service.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/service.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 = @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.6
matchedPath = lib/service.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15ZWxpeGxhYnMvc3luYXBzZS1tY3A:3.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/auto-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/auto-update.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 = @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.6
matchedPath = lib/auto-update.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15ZWxpeGxhYnMvc3luYXBzZS1tY3A:3.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/install.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 = @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.6
matchedPath = lib/install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15ZWxpeGxhYnMvc3luYXBzZS1tY3A:3.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/service-os.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.7/lib/service-os.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 = @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp@3.0.6
matchedPath = lib/service-os.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG15ZWxpeGxhYnMvc3luYXBzZS1tY3A:3.0.6
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:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- cli-table3 ^0.6.5 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.0.0 (Dependency)
- express ^4.19.0 (Dependency)
- inquirer ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- open ^10.1.0 (Dependency)
- ora ^8.0.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @myelixlabs/synapse-mcp
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.0.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-30T17:09:13.359Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T05:41:59.029Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T20:00:19.760Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 3.6.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Cuts AI token costs, eliminates hallucinated refactors and answers in \<2ms — AST code-knowledge graph for Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Warp, Continue & Zed. Runs fully local.
- **Author:** Myelix Labs
- **Keywords:** mcp, synapse, ai, code-intelligence, cli, elixir, graph, cursor, claude, windsurf, warp, continue
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 16
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 386,637 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@myelixlabs/synapse-mcp/v/3.0.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/myelixlabs/synapse-mcp.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://synapse-mcp.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/myelixlabs/synapse-mcp/issues>)