--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ooples/token-optimizer-mcp/v/7.5.1" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@ooples/token-optimizer-mcp/v/7.5.1.md" package: "@ooples/token-optimizer-mcp" report_status: "published" title: "@ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.5.1 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "7.5.1" --- # @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.5.1 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 — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 24 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:** 7.5.1 - **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 a conditional runtime transfer of prompt and command metadata to a model endpoint, enabled by default when an API key is present and disabled by an opt-out. Because hook activation requires setup outside an ordinary npm install and the default digest excludes tool results and file bodies, this supports a warning rather than a publication block. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-15T05:22:09.848Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-15T05:23:55.054Z - **Download time:** 1271 ms - **Static scan time:** 9180 ms - **AI review time:** 94750 ms - **Total time:** 105206 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:** Installed session hooks can automatically send a digest of session prompts and commands to a model endpoint. This is a conditional data exposure risk; the source does not establish malicious intent. - **Trigger:** After explicit hook setup, an edited session reaches its Stop hook while harvesting is enabled and an API key is available. - **Impact:** Session text and activity metadata may leave the machine; the default digest excludes tool results and file bodies. - **Evidence paths:** hooks-core/stop-harvest.mjs, hooks-core/harvest-worker.mjs, hooks-core/harvest.mjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-15T05:23:55.054Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The worker reads the transcript, builds a digest containing prompts and commands, then posts it to the configured endpoint. - **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms a conditional runtime transfer of prompt and command metadata to a model endpoint, enabled by default when an API key is present and disabled by an opt-out. Because hook activation requires setup outside an ordinary npm install and the default digest excludes tool results and file bodies, this supports a warning rather than a publication block. - **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.cjs, scripts/install-cli.mjs, hooks-core/stop-harvest.mjs, hooks-core/harvest-worker.mjs, hooks-core/harvest.mjs - **Network endpoints:** https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 88.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** The npm postinstall hook starts integration setup only when TOKEN\_OPTIMIZER\_AUTO\_INSTALL is enabled., The installer registers hooks when the install CLI is run., After an edited session, the Stop hook starts a worker that proceeds when a transcript exists and harvesting is enabled., The default digest includes user prompts and commands; raw transcript mode is separately opt-in., Harvesting is disabled by an explicit opt-out; otherwise a configured API key enables remote mode., The worker sends the digest in a POST request to the configured endpoint, which defaults to Anthropic’s Messages API. - **Evidence against:** A regular npm install does not by itself activate the hooks; the lifecycle setup requires an environment opt-in or a separate install command., The default digest omits tool results and file bodies, and the endpoint is configurable. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.5.1. - Review the evidence and your use of @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.5.1 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]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs ``` ### 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:** hooks-core/skeleton.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L29: L30: import { execFileSync } from 'node:child_process'; L31: import { dirname } from 'node:path'; ``` ### 6. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** hooks-core/harvest.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text L255: * Calls the model. Returns [] on any failure -- a harvest that errors must be L256: * indistinguishable, from the caller"s side, from a session with nothing to\n * learn. `harvestFailure()` carries why, for the diagnostics that do care.\n */\n/**\n * The findings ... L257: * joining argv with single spaces and no quoting at all, which breaks the ``` ### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** dist/compress/onnx.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L61: const moduleName = 'onnxruntime-node'; L62: const ort = (await import(moduleName)); L63: const session = await ort.InferenceSession.create(modelPath); ``` ### 8. Low: Weak Crypto - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 64.0% - **Path:** dist/tools/configuration/smart-env.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L130: cacheHit: false, L131: metadata: { error: errorMessage }, L132: }); ... L160: if (!path.isAbsolute(filePath)) { L161: filePath = path.join(process.cwd(), filePath); L162: } ... L217: async analyzeEnvironment(parsed, content, options, filePath, fileHash) { L218: const environment = options.environment || this.detectEnvironment(parsed); L219: // Count variable types ... L368: }, L369: { pattern: /private|credential|auth/i, severity: 'high' }, L370: ]; ``` ### 9. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 10. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 11. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** hooks-core/harvest.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L24: import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto'; L25: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process'; L26: import { harvestCliFor } from './capabilities.mjs'; ... L28: L29: const MODEL = () => process.env.TOKEN_OPTIMIZER_HARVEST_MODEL || 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'; L30: ... L39: const ENDPOINT = () => process.env.TOKEN_OPTIMIZER_HARVEST_ENDPOINT L40: || 'https://api.anthropic.com/v1/messages'; L41: ``` ### 13. High: Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 82.0% - **Path:** hooks-core/harvest.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text L295: // the prompt-file route exists to keep off a Windows command line: L296: // cmd.exe cannot carry a newline inside an argument, and the quoting L297: // doubles every `"`. These CLIs document the flag value as being\n // APPENDED to stdin, so the whole payload rides stdin and the argument\n // is one line of ASCII that any... ``` ### 14. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** plugin/hooks/lib/restore.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L3: contains invisible/control Unicode U+FEFF (zero width no-break space) /** ``` ### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** hooks-core/harvest.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1 - **Public source:** [View source]() A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> scripts/doctor.mjs -> hooks-core/doctor.mjs -> hooks-core/harvest.mjs L295: // the prompt-file route exists to keep off a Windows command line: L296: // cmd.exe cannot carry a newline inside an argument, and the quoting L297: // doubles every `"`. These CLIs document the flag value as being\n // APPENDED to stdin, so the whole payload rides stdin and the argument\n // is one line of ASCII that any... ``` ### 16. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 17. Low: Telemetry - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs. ### 18. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 19. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** install-hooks.ps1 - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```text path = install-hooks.ps1 kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 21337 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 20. 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. ### 21. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** dist/analysis/project-analyzer.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 = 31 ``` ### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** cli-wrapper.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.1.0 matchedPath = cli-wrapper.mjs matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:7.1.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** scripts/managed-policy.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.1.0 matchedPath = scripts/managed-policy.mjs matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:7.1.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 24. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** hooks-core/doctor.mjs - **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 = @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp@7.5.0 matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:7.5.0 similarity = 0.925 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly - **Dependencies:** 20 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 41 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 20 ### Published dependency entries - @babel/parser ^7.29.8 (Dependency) - @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency) - @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency) - @typescript-eslint/typescript-estree ^8.65.0 (Dependency) - async-mutex ^0.5.0 (Dependency) - better-sqlite3 ^13.0.3 (Dependency) - chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency) - chart.js 4.4.0 (Dependency) - cors ^2.8.5 (Dependency) - d3-force ^3.0.0 (Dependency) - diff ^8.0.2 (Dependency) - express ^5.1.0 (Dependency) - express-rate-limit ^8.5.2 (Dependency) - glob ^11.1.0 (Dependency) - graphlib ^2.1.8 (Dependency) - lru-cache ^11.2.2 (Dependency) - tiktoken ^1.0.22 (Dependency) - typescript ^5.9.3 (Dependency) - yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency) - zod ^3.25.0 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @ooples/token-optimizer-mcp - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 7.5.1 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-10-15T02:42:11.635Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-04T12:45:52.828Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-15T05:23:55.054Z - **Known versions:** 20 - **Latest version:** 7.5.1 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Audit net MCP context avoided per AI coding agent, optimize context, and share a live local knowledge graph across 16 CLI clients - **Author:** ooples - **Maintainers:** ooples - **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, claude, claude-code, token-optimization, caching, compression, ai, llm, context-management, prompt-optimization - **Runtime engines:** npm: \>=9.0.0, node: \>=22.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 1825 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,079,810 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** Yes - **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()