---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pikaa-ai/pikaa/v/0.1.5"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pikaa-ai/pikaa/v/0.1.5.md"
package: "@pikaa-ai/pikaa"
report_status: "published"
title: "@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.5"
---

# @pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.1.5
- **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.

The unrestricted endpoint override creates a conditional credential-forwarding risk, so this warrants a warning rather than a block. No install-time attack or unconsented agent configuration mutation was established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T22:19:01.345Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T22:20:00.594Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 628 ms
- **AI review time:** 58365 ms
- **Total time:** 59249 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:** The model client can forward an existing API credential to a caller-selected endpoint. No confirmed attack was identified without an endpoint override that redirects the credential.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the CLI with an API key or saved access token and configures an alternate base URL through environment variables or the command line.

- **Impact:** A credential may be exposed to an unintended endpoint if the caller configures an untrusted destination.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T22:20:00.594Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The client selects the credential and base URL independently, then sends the credential in the Authorization bearer header to that URL.

- **Rationale:** The unrestricted endpoint override creates a conditional credential-forwarding risk, so this warrants a warning rather than a block. No install-time attack or unconsented agent configuration mutation was established.

- **Network endpoints:** api.groupy-hub.store

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI loads a saved access token and accepts environment-selected API keys and base URLs., The model client sends the selected key as a bearer token to the selected base URL; overrides are not restricted to the package gateway., The manifest exposes the CLI and model client, making this behavior reachable during ordinary use., The reported agent configuration location loads project MCP configuration when the CLI runs; this is user-invoked behavior.

- **Evidence against:** The default model endpoint is the package’s Groupy gateway, and no install lifecycle hook is declared., The inspected CLI launcher only starts a bundled native binary or the JavaScript entrypoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5.

- Review the evidence and your use of @pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5 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: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/pikaa.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/bin/pikaa.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: 
L11: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L12: import { existsSync, chmodSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L509: const isWindows = process.platform === "win32";
L510: const shellCmd = isWindows ? ["powershell.exe", "-NoProfile", "-Command", command] : ["/bin/sh", "-c", command];
L511: try {
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/pikaa.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/bin/pikaa.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L79: 
L80: import(jsEntry).catch((err) => {
L81: console.error("Failed to start CLI:", err);
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3899: import { randomBytes, createHash } from "crypto";
L3900: import { exec } from "child_process";
L3901: class AuthClient {
...
L3906: async directLogin(params) {
L3907: const backendUrl = (params.backendUrl || process.env.GROUPY_BACKEND_URL || "https://api.groupy-hub.store").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L3908: const formData = new URLSearchParams({
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/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:
import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, unlinkSync } from "fs";
writeFileSync(this.filePath, JSON.stringify(credentials, null, 2), "utf8");
getBaseUrl() {
return creds?.baseUrl;
const baseUrl = (this.config.baseUrl || process.env.GROUPY_BASE_URL || process.env.OPENAI_BASE_URL || savedCreds?.baseUrl || "https://api.groupy-hub.store/v1").replace(/\/+$/, "");
if (!apiKey && !baseUrl.includes("localhost") && !baseUrl.includes("127.0.0.1") && !baseUrl.includes("groupy-hub.store")) {
headers["Authorization"] = `Bearer ${apiKey}`;
response = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/chat/completions`, {
```

### 11. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L47: try {
L48: const raw = readFileSync(this.filePath, "utf8");
L49: return JSON.parse(raw);
...
L75: }
L76: getBaseUrl() {
L77: const creds = this.load();
...
L333: return {
L334: output: `Error: Tool '${name}' not found. Available tools: ${Array.from(this.tools.keys()).join(", ")}`,
L335: isError: true
...
L3899: import { randomBytes, createHash } from "crypto";
L3900: import { exec } from "child_process";
L3901: class AuthClient {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** bin/groupy.cmd
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/bin/groupy.cmd>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = bin/groupy.cmd
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 95
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. 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.

### 16. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/dist/cli.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 = @pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.9
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHBpa2FhLWFpL3Bpa2Fh:0.1.9
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.5/dist/index.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 = @pikaa-ai/pikaa@0.1.9
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHBpa2FhLWFpL3Bpa2Fh:0.1.9
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @pikaa-ai/pikaa
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-29T18:31:13.557Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-20T13:04:59.115Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-10T22:20:00.594Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 0.4.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** PIKAA CLI - AI coding agent that runs locally in your terminal.
- **Author:** Mesosfer
- **Maintainers:** pikaa-ai
- **Keywords:** ai, coding-agent, codex, claude-code, cli, agentic, sub-agents, mcp, worktree
- **Artifact files:** 8
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 330,914 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pikaa-ai/pikaa/v/0.1.5>)
