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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.157"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.157.md"
package: "@papi-ai/server"
report_status: "published"
title: "@papi-ai/server@0.402.157 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.402.157"
---

# @papi-ai/server@0.402.157 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 17 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:** 0.402.157
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection found no install lifecycle hook or concrete attack behavior. The flagged statusline write requires explicit installation, while setup, telemetry, and backfill behavior align with the package's stated server functions.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-15T19:32:11.816Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-15T19:33:24.514Z
- **Download time:** 1014 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6546 ms
- **AI review time:** 65137 ms
- **Total time:** 72698 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:** No attack was identified in the inspected source. The flagged configuration and command behaviors are user-invoked or serve package functionality.

- **Trigger:** The server runs when launched; setup, backfill, and statusline installation require their respective commands.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unauthorized credential disclosure, destructive action, or agent control hijack was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-15T19:33:24.514Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code performs PAPI setup and telemetry, project identity lookup, metric backfill, and optional statusline configuration.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no install lifecycle hook or concrete attack behavior. The flagged statusline write requires explicit installation, while setup, telemetry, and backfill behavior align with the package's stated server functions.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook; it declares ordinary build and runtime scripts., Setup contacts the PAPI service for a device code and stores the returned API key locally after approval., Telemetry sends tool and event metadata to the configured PAPI data endpoint only when enabled and configured., The statusline settings write requires an explicit install flag and leaves an existing status command untouched., The backfill command runs when directly invoked; its Git commands read user identity, and its runtime writes calculated cycle metrics., The flagged project-document paths are inputs to project file discovery, not instructions to the reviewer.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @papi-ai/server@0.402.157.

- Review the evidence and your use of @papi-ai/server@0.402.157 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/backfill-cycle-metrics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/backfill-cycle-metrics.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L982: });
L983: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "child_process";
L984: function isGitAvailable() {
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7889: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L7890: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L7891: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L52: import path from "path";
L53: function resolveRuntimeEndpoint(env = process.env) {
L54: const explicit = env.PAPI_MCP_ENDPOINT?.trim();
...
L72: }
L73: function resolveReleaseIdentity(env = process.env, workingDirectory = process.cwd()) {
L74: const explicit = env.PAPI_RELEASE_ID?.trim() || env.GIT_COMMIT_SHA?.trim();
...
L368: try {
L369: result[match[1]] = JSON.parse(raw);
L370: } catch {
...
L1796: id: ad.id,
L1797: body: ad.body
L1798: })),
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/backfill-cycle-metrics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/backfill-cycle-metrics.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3763: init_git();
L3764: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "child_process";
L3765: function verifyUnboundReleaseWorkspace(projectId, repositoryUrl, workspacePath, proof = process.env["PAPI_WORKSPACE_RELEASE_TARGET"]) {
L3766: if (!proof) return false;
L3767: const target = JSON.parse(proof);
L3768: const expected = `https://github.com/${target.repository}`;
L3769: if (target.projectId !== projectId || !/^[\w.-]+\/[\w.-]+$/.test(target.repository ?? "") || !/^[a-f0-9]{40}$/.test(target.commit ?? "") || !repositoryUrl || normalizeGitUrl(reposi...
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

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/index.js:
const hostedSupabaseUrl = cleanUrl(env.hostedSupabaseUrl);
dataEndpoint: cleanUrl(env.dataEndpoint) ?? (hostedSupabaseUrl ? `${hostedSupabaseUrl}/functions/v1/data-proxy` : void 0) ?? (selfHosted ? void 0 : `${HOSTED_SUPABASE_URL}/function...
import { mkdirSync, readFileSync as readFileSync2, writeFileSync, chmodSync } from "fs";
hostedSupabaseUrl: process.env["PAPI_HOSTED_SUPABASE_URL"]
"Authorization": `Bearer ${apiKey}`
"Authorization": `Bearer ${this.apiKey}`
`Auth: Invalid API key \u2014 PAPI_DATA_API_KEY was rejected by the proxy.
* Validate API key and project access against the proxy.
```

### 10. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7874: });
L7875: readFromStdout(stdout);
L7876: afterClose(null);
...
L7884: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L7885: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L7886: transferList: [workerPort],
L7887: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L7888: //
L7889: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L7890: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L7891: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 11. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/statusline.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/statusline.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
t flag = (name) => {
    const i = argv.indexof(name);
    return i >= 0 && argv[i + 1] ? argv[i + 1] : void 0;
  };
  const endpoint = flag("--endpoint") ?? process.env["papi_endpoint"];
  const bearer = flag("--bearer") ?? process.env["papi_bearer"];
  const projectid = flag("--project") ?? process.env["papi_project_id"];
  if (endpoint && bearer) return { endpoint: new url(endpoint).origin, bearer, projectid };
  const mcpjsonpath = join(process.cwd(), ".mcp.json");
  if (existssync(mcpjsonpath)) {
    try {
      return configfrommcpjson(json.parse(readfilesync(mcpjsonpath, "utf-8")));
    } catch {
      return void 0;
    }
  }
  return void 0;
}
async function fetchpeek(config) {
  const respo
```

### 12. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L7874: });
L7875: readFromStdout(stdout);
L7876: afterClose(null);
...
L7884: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L7885: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L7886: transferList: [workerPort],
L7887: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L7888: //
L7889: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L7890: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L7891: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L7874: });
L7875: readFromStdout(stdout);
L7876: afterClose(null);
...
L7884: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L7885: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L7886: transferList: [workerPort],
L7887: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L7888: //
L7889: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L7890: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L7891: //   explicitly set, new Worker threads automatically inherit the command line flags
```

### 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: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** design-assets/hooks/frontend-design-guard.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.157/design-assets/hooks/frontend-design-guard.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = design-assets/hooks/frontend-design-guard.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2003
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. 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.

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

- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sdk 0.128.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.32.1 (Dependency)
- @papi-ai/adapter-pg 0.2.32 (Dependency)
- @papi-ai/shared 0.2.24 (Dependency)
- @papi-ai/skills 0.2.8 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @papi-ai/server
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.402.157
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-15T19:18:10.777Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-03T02:24:03.893Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T08:40:22.593Z
- **Known versions:** 26
- **Latest version:** 0.402.208
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** PAPI MCP server â€” AI-powered sprint planning, build execution, and strategy review for software projects
- **Maintainers:** papi-ai
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, sprint-planning, project-management, ai, claude, anthropic, devtools
- **Runtime engines:** node: 24.21.0
- **Artifact files:** 23
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,916,138 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.157>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/getpapi/papi>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/getpapi/papi#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/getpapi/papi/issues>)
