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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.208"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.208.md"
package: "@papi-ai/server"
report_status: "published"
title: "@papi-ai/server@0.402.208 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.402.208"
---

# @papi-ai/server@0.402.208 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 17 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.402.208
- **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.

The flagged credential and command findings were not supported: the status-line uses PAPI-specific credentials with the configured endpoint, and its settings write requires an explicit install flag. However, runtime telemetry is enabled by default, can be disabled, and was not disclosed in the README, making this suspicious under the telemetry rule.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T20:31:37.831Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T20:32:36.803Z
- **Download time:** 765 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7758 ms
- **AI review time:** 50448 ms
- **Total time:** 58972 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:** Undisclosed runtime telemetry; no credential exfiltration or unrelated command-output upload was identified.

- **Trigger:** Tool calls or error events during server runtime, when a PAPI data API key and telemetry endpoint are configured.

- **Impact:** Usage and project-associated metadata are reported to the PAPI data service without an evident package-level disclosure.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T20:32:36.803Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The server posts tool names, event types, metadata and an optional project ID to the configured endpoint’s /telemetry route; PAPI\_TELEMETRY can disable it.

- **Rationale:** The flagged credential and command findings were not supported: the status-line uses PAPI-specific credentials with the configured endpoint, and its settings write requires an explicit install flag. However, runtime telemetry is enabled by default, can be disabled, and was not disclosed in the README, making this suspicious under the telemetry rule.

- **Files touched:** dist/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** Configured PAPI data endpoint: /telemetry

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Runtime telemetry is enabled by default and can be disabled with PAPI\_TELEMETRY=false or off., Telemetry sends tool names, event types, metadata and an optional project ID to the configured PAPI data endpoint using PAPI\_DATA\_API\_KEY; the README search found no telemetry disclosure.

- **Evidence against:** The package’s main entry is dist/index.js; the status-line command is a separate bin entry., The status-line sends a PAPI bearer token to the endpoint configured in PAPI-specific settings and only writes Claude settings when invoked with --install., The main server’s detected user identity comes from Git or GitHub CLI and is used in project resolution against the configured database adapter.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @papi-ai/server@0.402.208.

- Review the evidence and your use of @papi-ai/server@0.402.208 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@0.402.208/dist/backfill-cycle-metrics.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1014: });
L1015: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "child_process";
L1016: function isGitAvailable() {
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@papi-ai/server@0.402.208/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8192: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L8193: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L8194: //   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@0.402.208/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();
...
L410: try {
L411: result[match[1]] = JSON.parse(raw);
L412: } catch {
...
L1850: id: ad.id,
L1851: body: ad.body
L1852: })),
```

### 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@0.402.208/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
L3974: init_git();
L3975: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "child_process";
L3976: function verifyUnboundReleaseWorkspace(projectId, repositoryUrl, workspacePath, proof = process.env["PAPI_WORKSPACE_RELEASE_TARGET"]) {
L3977: if (!proof) return false;
L3978: const target = JSON.parse(proof);
L3979: const expected = `https://github.com/${target.repository}`;
L3980: if (target.projectId !== projectId || !/^[\w.-]+\/[\w.-]+$/.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@0.402.208/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@0.402.208/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8177: });
L8178: readFromStdout(stdout);
L8179: afterClose(null);
...
L8187: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L8188: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L8189: transferList: [workerPort],
L8190: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L8191: //
L8192: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L8193: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L8194: //   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@0.402.208/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@0.402.208/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
L8177: });
L8178: readFromStdout(stdout);
L8179: afterClose(null);
...
L8187: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L8188: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L8189: transferList: [workerPort],
L8190: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L8191: //
L8192: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L8193: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L8194: //   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@0.402.208/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
L8177: });
L8178: readFromStdout(stdout);
L8179: afterClose(null);
...
L8187: let worker = new worker_threads2.Worker(__filename, {
L8188: workerData: { workerPort, defaultWD, esbuildVersion: "0.28.2" },
L8189: transferList: [workerPort],
L8190: // From node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
L8191: //
L8192: //   Take care when launching worker threads from preload scripts (scripts loaded
L8193: //   and run using the `-r` command line flag). Unless the `execArgv` option is
L8194: //   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@0.402.208/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 0.2.9 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @papi-ai/server
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.402.208
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T20:28:17.306Z
- **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: a shared plan, decisions and review history that any MCP-compatible AI client picks up where the last session left off
- **Maintainers:** papi-ai
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, mcp-server, project-management, planning, ai-agents, claude-code, cursor, codex
- **Runtime engines:** node: 24.21.0
- **Artifact files:** 23
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,182,998 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@papi-ai/server/v/0.402.208>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/getpapi/papi>)
- [Homepage](<https://getpapi.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/getpapi/papi/issues>)