--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@netnodeag/kraftwerk/v/0.46.2" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@netnodeag/kraftwerk/v/0.46.2.md" package: "@netnodeag/kraftwerk" report_status: "published" title: "@netnodeag/kraftwerk@0.46.2 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "0.46.2" --- # @netnodeag/kraftwerk@0.46.2 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse - **Selected version:** 0.46.2 - **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. No malicious install hook, credential theft, exfiltration, or covert persistence was found. The package nevertheless provides explicit agent-control mutation and shell execution through its inspector, so it warrants a warning rather than a clean verdict. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-08T16:22:46.100Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-08T16:25:26.318Z - **Download time:** 512 ms - **Static scan time:** 2183 ms - **AI review time:** 157521 ms - **Total time:** 160218 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 inspector can execute a development command supplied by project configuration and can alter project agent definitions. These are explicit inspector actions, not install-time behavior, but they are powerful AI-workspace capabilities. - **Trigger:** A user or a caller able to access the inspector sends the dev-start or agent-management API request. - **Impact:** A malicious project configuration or unauthorized inspector caller could run commands in the project context or change agent behavior. - **Evidence paths:** dist/inspector/server.js, dist/inspector/vibeables.js, dist/inspector/agents.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-08T16:25:26.318Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Shell execution of project configuration and project agent-prompt mutation. - **Rationale:** No malicious install hook, credential theft, exfiltration, or covert persistence was found. The package nevertheless provides explicit agent-control mutation and shell execution through its inspector, so it warrants a warning rather than a clean verdict. - **Files touched:** vibeables/\, agents/\/agent.yml, agents/\/system.md ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 87.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** The inspector exposes a POST route that starts a project-defined development command., That command is run through a shell with the full inherited environment., The inspector API writes agent configuration and system-prompt files in the selected project., The package can clone or refresh a user-supplied remote Git repository into its cache., The manifest has no automatic install lifecycle hook; its only publish hook is prepublishOnly. - **Evidence against:** The shell execution is reached through an explicit inspector API action and uses the selected vibeable directory., Agent files are constrained to validated slugs beneath the configured project agents directory., No source inspected showed credential harvesting, secret exfiltration, stealth persistence, or an install-time payload., The inspector defaults to loopback binding outside containers. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @netnodeag/kraftwerk@0.46.2. - Review the evidence and your use of @netnodeag/kraftwerk@0.46.2 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs. ### 2. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 3. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/remote.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L2: import { mkdir, stat } from "node:fs/promises"; ``` ### 4. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/inspector/vibeables.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L546: cwd: r.dir, L547: shell: true, L548: detached: process.platform !== "win32", ``` ### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** bin/kraftwerk.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L15: if (existsSync(src) && process.env.KRAFTWERK_DIST !== "1") { L16: const { register } = await import("tsx/esm/api"); L17: register(); ``` ### 6. Low: Weak Crypto - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 64.0% - **Path:** dist/inspector/instances.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process"; L2: import { createHash } from "node:crypto"; ... L26: */ L27: const HOME = path.join(os.homedir(), ".kraftwerk"); L28: const INSTANCES_DIR = path.join(HOME, "instances"); ... L53: /** Where this instance answers, as the switcher links it (null before listen). */ L54: export const currentInstanceUrl = () => (selfPort ? `http://localhost:${selfPort}` : null); L55: /** Remove this instance's registry file. Sync so exit handlers can call it. */ ... L81: return null; L82: const meta = (await r.json()); L83: if (typeof meta.version !== "string") ... L452: try { ``` ### 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: Trojan Source Unicode - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** inspector/dist/assets/editor-DJbeG376.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L9: contains invisible/control Unicode U+200E (left-to-right mark) `,pi=Jr?`\xA0`:di,mi=`֑-߿יִ-﷽ﹰ-ﻼ`,hi=`A-Za-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-ʸ̀-֐ࠀ-῿Ⰰ-﬜︀-﹯﻽-￿`;RegExp(`^[^`+hi+`]*[`+mi+`]`),RegExp(`^[^`+mi+`]*[`+hi+`]`);var gi={bold:1,capitalize:1024,code:16,highlight:128,italic:2,lowercase:256,strikethrough:4,subscript:3 ``` ### 11. High: Runtime Package Install - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 86.0% - **Path:** dist/inspector/runner.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L2: import { mkdirSync, openSync, closeSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs"; ... L9: * Workflow trigger for the web UI. The inspector stays decoupled from the L10: * framework runtime: it shells out to `npx kraftwerk run` in the consumer L11: * project, detached, with a pre-chosen --run-id so the browser can jump to ``` ### 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: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** dist/inspector/agents.js - **Public source:** [View source]() A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 22 ``` ### 16. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** dist/inspector/vibeables.js - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @netnodeag/kraftwerk@0.2.0 matchedIdentity = npm:QG5ldG5vZGVhZy9rcmFmdHdlcms:0.2.0 similarity = 0.458 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly - **Dependencies:** 10 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 4 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10 ### Published dependency entries - @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp ^0.75.1 (Dependency) - @agentclientprotocol/codex-acp ^1.10.0 (Dependency) - @agentclientprotocol/sdk ^1.4.0 (Dependency) - @inquirer/prompts ^8.7.1 (Dependency) - ajv ^8.20.0 (Dependency) - chalk ^6.0.0 (Dependency) - cli-table3 ^0.6.5 (Dependency) - commander ^15.0.0 (Dependency) - ora ^9.4.1 (Dependency) - yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @netnodeag/kraftwerk - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.46.2 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-07T20:38:09.053Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T15:25:00.632Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T13:20:38.054Z - **Known versions:** 68 - **Latest version:** 0.80.0 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Open-source agentic workspace for teams — where people and AI agents get work done together: agents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi), skills, shared knowledge, repeatable workflows, and deterministic verification - **Maintainers:** lukasfischer - **Keywords:** agents, workflow, orchestration, llm, claude, codex, automation, cli - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20 - **Artifact files:** 266 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,557,813 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** Yes - **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()