---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@phi-code-admin/phi-code"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@phi-code-admin/phi-code/v/0.90.0.md"
package: "@phi-code-admin/phi-code"
report_status: "published"
title: "@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.90.0"
---

# @phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 0.90.0
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. Install-time code seeds Phi-owned global agent extensions and settings, which the Phi runtime later auto-loads. Bundled browser control is gated by explicit runtime authorization.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-30T17:11:34.545Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-30T17:12:22.847Z
- **Download time:** 773 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2866 ms
- **AI review time:** 44661 ms
- **Total time:** 48302 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:** Install-time code seeds Phi-owned global agent extensions and settings, which the Phi runtime later auto-loads. Bundled browser control is gated by explicit runtime authorization.

- **Trigger:** npm install activates postinstall; later running phi loads global extensions.

- **Impact:** Persistent extension code and agent assets are added to the user's Phi control surface.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.cjs, dist/config.js, dist/core/extensions/loader.js, extensions/phi/chrome/index.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-30T17:12:22.847Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall agent-extension provisioning with runtime auto-loading

- **Rationale:** The install hook mutates a persistent AI-agent control surface, creating a meaningful lifecycle risk. It is scoped to Phi's own namespace and lacks a concrete malicious chain, so warning is appropriate rather than blocking.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, ~/.phi/agent/extensions, ~/.phi/agent/agents, ~/.phi/agent/skills, ~/.phi/agent/settings.json, ~/.phi/memory

- **Network endpoints:** http://127.0.0.1:17318

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.cjs on install., scripts/postinstall.cjs copies bundled extensions, agents, and skills into ~/.phi/agent., postinstall creates ~/.phi/memory and modifies ~/.phi/agent/settings.json., dist/core/extensions/loader.js auto-discovers and imports ~/.phi/agent/extensions., extensions/phi/chrome/index.ts provides privileged browser-control tools after authorization.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall makes no network request or credential read., The target is the package's own .phi configuration namespace., CI and PHI\_SKIP\_POSTINSTALL disable installation mutation., Chrome control requires explicit /chrome authorization and manual companion-extension onboarding., No source evidence of credential exfiltration, remote payload download, or destructive behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0 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/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/package.json>)

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](<https://unpkg.com/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/package.json>)

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. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom-engine.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom-engine.ts>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L64: const nativeRequire = createRequire(doomJsPath);
L65: const moduleFunc = new Function("module", "exports", "__dirname", "__filename", "require", doomJsCode);
L66: moduleFunc(moduleExports, moduleExports.exports, buildDir, doomJsPath, nativeRequire);
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/extensions/loader.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/dist/core/extensions/loader.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L50: };
L51: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L52: /**
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build/doom.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 380169
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@phi-code-admin/phi-code@0.90.0/examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = examples/extensions/doom-overlay/doom/build.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3366
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 27
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 28

### Published dependency entries
- @mariozechner/jiti ^2.6.5 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @phi-code-admin/browser ^1.0.4 (Dependency)
- @silvia-odwyer/photon-node ^0.3.4 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.5.0 (Dependency)
- cli-highlight ^2.1.11 (Dependency)
- diff ^8.0.2 (Dependency)
- extract-zip ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- file-type ^21.1.1 (Dependency)
- glob ^13.0.1 (Dependency)
- hosted-git-info ^9.0.2 (Dependency)
- ignore ^7.0.5 (Dependency)
- marked ^15.0.12 (Dependency)
- minimatch ^10.2.3 (Dependency)
- phi-code-agent ^0.74.0 (Dependency)
- phi-code-ai ^0.74.0 (Dependency)
- phi-code-tui ^0.74.0 (Dependency)
- proper-lockfile ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- sigma-agents ^0.1.7 (Dependency)
- sigma-memory ^0.2.2 (Dependency)
- sigma-skills ^0.1.2 (Dependency)
- strip-ansi ^7.1.0 (Dependency)
- typebox ^1.1.24 (Dependency)
- undici ^7.19.1 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.2 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.25.0 (Dependency)
- @mariozechner/clipboard ^0.3.5 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @phi-code-admin/phi-code
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.90.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-11T03:51:05.933Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-10T14:23:44.024Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T21:51:34.258Z
- **Known versions:** 18
- **Latest version:** 0.99.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Coding agent CLI with persistent memory, sub-agents, intelligent routing, and orchestration
- **Author:** Mario Zechner
- **Maintainers:** phi-code-admin
- **Keywords:** ai, coding-agent, cli, typescript, sub-agents, memory, phi-code
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.6.0
- **Artifact files:** 824
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 11,874,828 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@phi-code-admin/phi-code/v/0.90.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/uglyswap/phi-code>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/uglyswap/phi-code/issues>)
