---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@p4code/cli/v/0.2.30"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@p4code/cli/v/0.2.30.md"
package: "@p4code/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@p4code/cli@0.2.30 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.30"
---

# @p4code/cli@0.2.30 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 24 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.30
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious attack surface. Runtime telemetry derives a hashed identifier from a limited account-ID field and posts analytics; service persistence is only under explicit p4c service commands.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-22T13:32:58.119Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-22T13:34:42.353Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 30641 ms
- **AI review time:** 72827 ms
- **Total time:** 104234 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious attack surface. Runtime telemetry derives a hashed identifier from a limited account-ID field and posts analytics; service persistence is only under explicit p4c service commands.

- **Trigger:** Running the CLI/server; service persistence requires p4c service install.

- **Impact:** Potential analytics identification, not credential or archive exfiltration.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/bin.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-22T13:34:42.353Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** bounded telemetry and explicit application service setup

- **Rationale:** The scanner's claimed sensitive archive/npm publication is not present in the inspected entrypoint. Risky primitives support the CLI's stated runtime features and are user-invoked; no install-time execution or concrete credential exfiltration was found.

- **Files touched:** ~/.codex/auth.json, ~/.claude.json, ~/.p4/telemetry/anonymous-id

- **Network endpoints:** https://us.i.posthog.com/batch/, https://registry.npmjs.org/%40p4code%2Fcli/latest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** Default telemetry reads only Codex account\_id or Claude userID, hashes it, and sends analytics., Explicit p4c service install can create a same-product background service.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The npm request is a bounded advisory latest-version check., No source evidence of archiving credentials or publishing them to npm., Agent/config writes are application features reached through explicit CLI/runtime actions.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/client/assets/index-DM-O3TKv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/client/assets/index-DM-O3TKv.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L482: ?|[
L483: \v\f…\u2028\u2029])`),t));else if(c===`posix`)if(!i&&(u===`graph`||u===`print`)){if(r===`strict`)throw Error(`POSIX class "${u}" requires min target ES2024 or non-strict accuracy`)...
L484: `)),e}var gY=Symbol(`no-token`),_Y=Symbol(`multiple-tokens`);function vY(e){let t=$Xe(e);if(t!=null)return t;let n=gY,r=[],i=[],a,o=()=>{if(i.length===0||a==null){i=[],a=void 0;ret...
```

### 2. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L362: const POSIX_PATH_DELIMITER = ":";
L363: const WINDOWS_SHELL_CANDIDATES = ["pwsh.exe", "powershell.exe"];
L364: function canExecuteFile(filePath) {
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/client/assets/sass-DXrisJhu.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/client/assets/sass-DXrisJhu.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: var e=[Object.freeze(JSON.parse(`{"displayName":"Sass","fileTypes":["sass"],"foldingStartMarker":"/\\\\*|^#|^\\\\*|^\\\\b|\\\\*#?region|^\\\\.","foldingStopMarker":"\\\\*/|\\\\*#?e...
L2: //# sourceMappingURL=sass-DXrisJhu.js.map
```

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Critical: Sensitive Archive Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Source archives sensitive local configuration and publishes encoded chunks through an authenticated package-registry request.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
L14: import * as NodeNet from "node:net";
L15: import * as Data from "effect/Data";
...
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L239: //#endregion
L240: //#region package.json
L241: var version = "0.2.30";
...
L374: /**
L375: * Escapes a single argument for `cmd.exe` shell mode (`spawn(..., { shell: true })`
L376: * on Windows). Node joins the command and arguments with spaces and hands the
```

### 8. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
L14: import * as NodeNet from "node:net";
L15: import * as Data from "effect/Data";
...
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L239: //#endregion
L240: //#region package.json
L241: var version = "0.2.30";
...
L374: /**
L375: * Escapes a single argument for `cmd.exe` shell mode (`spawn(..., { shell: true })`
L376: * on Windows). Node joins the command and arguments with spaces and hands the
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/bin.mjs:
import * as NodeReadline from "node:readline";
}).pipe(Effect.flatMap((encoded) => fs.writeFileString(cachePath, encoded)), Effect.ignore);
var EnvironmentAuthorizationError = class extends Schema$1.TaggedErrorClass()("EnvironmentAuthorizationError", {
baseUrl: Schema$1.String
authorization: Schema$1.optionalKey(Schema$1.String),
httpBaseUrl: TrimmedNonEmptyString,
wsBaseUrl: TrimmedNonEmptyString,
httpBaseUrl: Schema$1.NullOr(Schema$1.String),
```

### 10. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/bin.mjs:
const request = HttpClientRequest.get(`https://registry.npmjs.org/${encodeURIComponent(PACKAGE_NAME$1)}/latest`).pipe(HttpClientRequest.setHeader("accept", "application/json"));
}).pipe(Effect.flatMap((encoded) => fs.writeFileString(cachePath, encoded)), Effect.ignore);
missing: "GitHub CLI (`gh`) is required to browse change requests on this host. Install it from https://cli.github.com/ and reload.",
missing: "GitLab CLI (`glab`) is required to browse change requests on this host. Install it from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli and reload.",
* fixed size while fill mode follows a narrow panel. Keep measurement
url: Schema.optional(BoundedU
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
L14: import * as NodeNet from "node:net";
L15: import * as Data from "effect/Data";
...
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L239: //#endregion
L240: //#region package.json
L241: var version = "0.2.30";
...
L374: /**
L375: * Escapes a single argument for `cmd.exe` shell mode (`spawn(..., { shell: true })`
L376: * on Windows). Node joins the command and arguments with spaces and hands the
```

### 12. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L3459: name: TrimmedNonEmptyString,
L3460: baseUrl: Schema$1.String
L3461: });
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/bin.mjs
L13: import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
L14: import * as NodeNet from "node:net";
L15: import * as Data from "effect/Data";
...
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L239: //#endregion
L240: //#region package.json
L241: var version = "0.2.30";
...
L374: /**
L375: * Escapes a single argument for `cmd.exe` shell mode (`spawn(..., { shell: true })`
L376: * on Windows). Node joins the command and arguments with spaces and hands the
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/bin.mjs
L13: import * as NodeOS from "node:os";
L14: import * as NodeNet from "node:net";
L15: import * as Data from "effect/Data";
...
L21: import * as NodePath from "node:path";
L22: import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
L23: import * as NodeFS from "node:fs";
...
L239: //#endregion
L240: //#region package.json
L241: var version = "0.2.30";
...
L374: /**
L375: * Escapes a single argument for `cmd.exe` shell mode (`spawn(..., { shell: true })`
L376: * on Windows). Node joins the command and arguments with spaces and hands the
```

### 15. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bin.mjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 5118400
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/bin.mjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 5118400
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/bin.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/bin.mjs>)

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_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 2
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/client/assets/chunk-JQJVKLGR-oHxUxbQ4.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/client/assets/chunk-JQJVKLGR-oHxUxbQ4.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 = @inkeep/open-knowledge@0.36.0
matchedPath = dist/chunk-PUDLZKDR-7CuClQq1.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGlua2VlcC9vcGVuLWtub3dsZWRnZQ:0.36.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/client/assets/chunk-WRU74C26-C2Rb3ATV.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/client/assets/chunk-WRU74C26-C2Rb3ATV.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 = @inkeep/open-knowledge@0.36.0
matchedPath = dist/chunk-Q4XR5HBZ-DE_erWE4.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:QGlua2VlcC9vcGVuLWtub3dsZWRnZQ:0.36.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/client/assets/diagram-Q27KOJAE-Dp\_H6G\_V.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@p4code/cli@0.2.30/dist/client/assets/diagram-Q27KOJAE-Dp_H6G_V.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = @inkeep/open-knowledge@0.31.0
matchedPath = dist/public/assets/diagram-G4DWMVQ6-Ba38EFwg.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGlua2VlcC9vcGVuLWtub3dsZWRnZQ:0.31.0
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 48
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk ^0.3.170 (Dependency)
- @effect/platform-bun 4.0.0-beta.102 (Dependency)
- @effect/platform-node 4.0.0-beta.102 (Dependency)
- @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.0-beta.102 (Dependency)
- @effect/sql-sqlite-bun 4.0.0-beta.102 (Dependency)
- @ff-labs/fff-node 0.9.4 (Dependency)
- @mdx-js/mdx ^3.1.1 (Dependency)
- @opencode-ai/sdk ^1.3.15 (Dependency)
- @pierre/diffs 1.3.5 (Dependency)
- diff 8.0.3 (Dependency)
- effect 4.0.0-beta.102 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- remark-frontmatter ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-gfm ^4.0.1 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @p4code/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.30
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-22T13:25:10.676Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-30T13:53:26.509Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-05T20:27:56.148Z
- **Known versions:** 69
- **Latest version:** 0.4.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Maintainers:** phoccly
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.13.1
- **Artifact files:** 529
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 26,867,803 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@p4code/cli/v/0.2.30>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/pccly/p4code>)