---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.38.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.38.0.md"
package: "@pmate/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@pmate/cli@0.38.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.38.0"
---

# @pmate/cli@0.38.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.38.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection did not confirm the scanner's alleged fixed gateway or credential redirection. The manifest has no install hook, and the inspected API key path uses the user's configured endpoint.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-27T10:27:05.639Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-27T10:35:23.872Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2818 ms
- **AI review time:** 494907 ms
- **Total time:** 498233 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 credential behavior is an OpenAI client configured from the user's saved key and optional endpoint.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes a CLI function that uses the OpenAI client.

- **Impact:** No unconsented credential transfer to a publisher-selected recipient or other confirmed attack impact was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-27T10:35:23.872Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The client reads openAI.apiKey and optional openAI.baseUrl from the user's configuration to create the service client.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection did not confirm the scanner's alleged fixed gateway or credential redirection. The manifest has no install hook, and the inspected API key path uses the user's configured endpoint.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes dist/index.js as the CLI and main entrypoint and defines no install lifecycle hook., The OpenAI client requires a key from the user's configuration and uses only an optional configured base URL; no publisher-selected gateway default was found., The inspected dependency entrypoints are generated SDK clients, while the PMate chat runtime re-exports its chat and protocol modules., The listed files export named generated API request and response model classes; these excerpts show model exports, not credential transfer or network calls., The cited declarations in these eight update model files are \`$dara.Model\` classes with \`static names()\` field mappings., The cited declarations in these eight verification and response model files are \`$dara.Model\` classes with \`static names()\` field mappings or response-body model references., The cited declarations in these eight response and domain model files are \`$dara.Model\` classes with \`static names()\` field mappings or response-body model references., These excerpts show generated API request and response body model declarations, with response files importing the corresponding response body model.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @pmate/cli@0.38.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @pmate/cli@0.38.0 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9292: // [redacted].ts
L9293: var import_node_child_process = require("child_process");
L9294: var import_node_path6 = __toESM(require("path"));
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20776: stdio: "inherit",
L20777: shell: true,
L20778: env: { ...process.env, ...env ?? {} }
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16828: async function loadChatSdk() {
L16829: const dynamicImport = new Function("specifier", "return import(specifier)");
L16830: return await dynamicImport("@pmate/chat-sdk/runtime");
```

### 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/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/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
L16828: async function loadChatSdk() {
L16829: const dynamicImport = new Function("specifier", "return import(specifier)");
L16830: return await dynamicImport("@pmate/chat-sdk/runtime");
...
L16840: const singular = args.type === "function" ? "Function" : "Worker";
L16841: const baseUrl = (args.baseUrl || process.env.PMATE_AGENT_API_BASE_URL || "https://agent-api.pmate.chat").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L16842: const token = readRequiredSession({ preferredApp: DEFAULT_APP_ID }).token;
```

### 9. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/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:
(0, import_node_fs4.writeFileSync)(sessionPath, JSON.stringify(store, null, 2), {
function ensureWsProtocol(baseUrl) {
if (/^wss?:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl;
if (/^https:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl.replace(/^https:/i, "wss:");
if (/^http:\/\//i.test(baseUrl))
return baseUrl.replace(/^http:/i, "ws:");
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 12. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/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
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@pmate/cli@0.38.0/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js
L90: function buildSessionStorePath() {
L91: return process.env.PMATE_SESSION_FILE?.trim() || import_node_path5.default.join(import_node_os4.default.homedir(), ".pmate", "session.json");
L92: }
...
L178: const raw = (0, import_node_fs4.readFileSync)(sessionPath, "utf8");
L179: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L180: const store = normalizeStore(parsed);
...
L5816: flush(true);
L5817: output.end();
L5818: } catch (error) {
...
L7692: static async toWire(msg, transport) {
L7693: if (transport === "websocket") {
L7694: const normalized2 = await _Msg.normalizeForWire(msg);
```

### 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: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

- **Dependencies:** 21
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 21

### Published dependency entries
- @alicloud/alidns20150109 ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/cdn20180510 ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/fc20230330 ^4.7.4 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/openapi-client ^0.4.15 (Dependency)
- @alicloud/sts20150401 ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
- @linear/sdk ^70.0.0 (Dependency)
- @pmate/chat-sdk ^0.2.0 (Dependency)
- @pmate/hub-sdk ^0.4.1 (Dependency)
- @types/ali-oss ^6.16.13 (Dependency)
- ajv ^8.17.1 (Dependency)
- ali-oss ^6.23.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.6.1 (Dependency)
- jsqr ^1.4.0 (Dependency)
- openai ^6.16.0 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.58.2 (Dependency)
- png-to-ico ^3.0.1 (Dependency)
- pngjs ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- sharp ^0.34.5 (Dependency)
- tslib ^2.8.1 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @pmate/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.38.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-27T10:09:09.259Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T23:06:50.894Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T10:26:23.494Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 0.46.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI utilities for the pMate project
- **Maintainers:** ramroll
- **Keywords:** cli, typescript, pmate
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 21
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,085,558 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@pmate/cli/v/0.38.0>)
