---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.13"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.13.md"
package: "@nordsym/apiclaw"
report_status: "published"
title: "@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.9.13"
---

# @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 22 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 2.9.13
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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.

Source inspection confirms default-on install telemetry sends a machine fingerprint composed of hostname and username to the package’s telemetry endpoint. The package offers an opt-out, and the inspected source does not establish an unrelated recipient or a separate malicious behavior, so this warrants a warning rather than a publication block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 81.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-14T11:54:36.608Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-14T11:55:58.479Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1974 ms
- **AI review time:** 79116 ms
- **Total time:** 81871 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 npm postinstall hook sends an install event containing a hostname-and-username fingerprint to the package’s telemetry service. This is a default-on privacy exposure; the inspected source does not establish a malicious recipient or credential collection.

- **Trigger:** npm runs the declared postinstall hook during package installation.

- **Impact:** The telemetry service receives identifying host and user data by default.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/postinstall.js, dist/session.js, dist/funnel-client.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-14T11:55:58.479Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook obtains the machine fingerprint and emits it with install metadata; telemetry is skipped only when APICLAW\_TELEMETRY is set to false.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms default-on install telemetry sends a machine fingerprint composed of hostname and username to the package’s telemetry endpoint. The package offers an opt-out, and the inspected source does not establish an unrelated recipient or a separate malicious behavior, so this warrants a warning rather than a publication block.

- **Network endpoints:** https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud/api/mutation

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 81.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json declares a postinstall hook that runs dist/postinstall.js., The hook creates a fingerprint and emits an install event by default., The fingerprint is built from the machine hostname and username., The event payload includes the fingerprint and is POSTed to the configured Convex endpoint; telemetry is disabled only when APICLAW\_TELEMETRY is false., MCP configuration changes are exposed through an explicit CLI command that adds this package’s server entry.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13.

- Review the evidence and your use of @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13 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/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/skill.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/skill.test.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import assert from "node:assert/strict";
L9: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L10: import { existsSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 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. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/pending-login-start.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/pending-login-start.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: * MCP / agent hosts have no stdin/stdout TTY, so they must not wait for
L5: * `canLaunchInteractiveAuth` before creating `https://apiclaw.cloud/auth/cli?authId=…`.
L6: * Opening the browser is best-effort. whoami redeems Authorize; localhost
...
L9: import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L10: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { pendingLoginStillOpen } from "./cli-auth-redeem.js";
...
L15: export const PENDING_LOGIN_LOOPBACK_PORT = 41789;
L16: const CONVEX_URL = process.env.APICLAW_CONVEX_URL || "https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud";
L17: const APP_URL = process.env.APICLAW_APP_URL || "https://apiclaw.cloud";
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/pending-login-start.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/pending-login-start.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: *
L4: * MCP / agent hosts have no stdin/stdout TTY, so they must not wait for
L5: * `canLaunchInteractiveAuth` before creating `https://apiclaw.cloud/auth/cli?authId=…`.
L6: * Opening the browser is best-effort. whoami redeems Authorize; localhost
...
L9: import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L10: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L11: import { pendingLoginStillOpen } from "./cli-auth-redeem.js";
...
L15: export const PENDING_LOGIN_LOOPBACK_PORT = 41789;
L16: const CONVEX_URL = process.env.APICLAW_CONVEX_URL || "https://adventurous-avocet-799.convex.cloud";
L17: const APP_URL = process.env.APICLAW_APP_URL || "https://apiclaw.cloud";
L18: function base64url(buf) {
L19: return buf.toString("base64").replace(/\+/g, "-").replace(/\//g, "_").replace(/=+$/g, "");
```

### 12. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/postinstall.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time AI-agent control hijack evidence:
Install-time helper chain writes an AI-agent control surface:
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: /**
Referenced control path from dist/session.js:
L16: if (!fs.existsSync(SESSION_DIR)) {
L17: fs.mkdirSync(SESSION_DIR, { mode: 0o700 });
L18: }
...
L60: // Migrate to canonical location
L61: fs.writeFileSync(SESSION_FILE, JSON.stringify({ ...data, createdAt: data.createdAt || Date.now() }, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
L62: return data;
...
L83: };
L84: fs.writeFileSync(SESSION_FILE, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2), {
L85: mode: 0o600, // Read/write for owner only
...
L170: return 'cursor';
L171: if (process.env.CLAUDE_CODE)
L172: return 'claude-code';
Write operation from dist/funnel-client.js:
L83: if (!fs.existsSync(MARKER_DIR))
L84: fs.mkdirSync(MARKER_
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import { platform, homedir } from 'os';
L9: import { execSync } from 'child_process';
L10: import chalk from 'chalk';
...
L12: import { readPendingLoginUrl } from '../../execute-auth.js';
L13: // Printed next step: npx @nordsym/apiclaw auth login
L14: import { authLoginCommand } from './auth.js';
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/direct.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/cli/commands/direct.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 3
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/cli/commands/mcp-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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.11
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/mcp-install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/doctor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/cli/commands/doctor.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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.11
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/doctor.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/first-run.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/first-run.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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.11
matchedPath = dist/first-run.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/pending-login-start.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/pending-login-start.test.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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.11
matchedPath = dist/pending-login-start.test.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/direct.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.13/dist/cli/commands/direct.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 = @nordsym/apiclaw@2.9.11
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/direct.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QG5vcmRzeW0vYXBpY2xhdw:2.9.11
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 6
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @e2b/code-interpreter ^2.3.3 (Dependency)
- @hono/node-server ^1.19.9 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @supabase/supabase-js ^2.39.0 (Dependency)
- @types/inquirer ^9.0.9 (Dependency)
- @zed-industries/agent-client-protocol ^0.4.5 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.6.2 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- convex ^1.36.1 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.3.1 (Dependency)
- fs-extra ^11.3.3 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- inquirer ^13.3.0 (Dependency)
- ora ^9.3.0 (Dependency)
- stripe ^20.3.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @nordsym/apiclaw
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.9.13
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-14T11:41:32.039Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-21T20:17:17.839Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-14T11:55:58.479Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 2.9.13
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Your agent calls real APIs. You sign in once. Authenticated execution and discovery layer for AI agents, reachable via SKILL.md, local MCP, CLI, HTTP gateway, or Remote MCP. Discover 26,619 API definitions, including 689 exact-name source-verified entries
- **Author:** NordSym
- **Maintainers:** nordsym
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, ai-agent, ai-agents, claude, gpt, llm, api, api-gateway, api-discovery, api-integration, agentic
- **Artifact files:** 435
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,145,469 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@nordsym/apiclaw/v/2.9.13>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/nordsym/apiclaw>)
- [Homepage](<https://apiclaw.cloud/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/nordsym/apiclaw/issues>)