---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.13.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.13.9.md"
package: "@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server"
report_status: "published"
title: "@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.13.9"
---

# @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9 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:** 1.13.9
- **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.

The automatic postinstall action creates an empty workflow state file consistent with the package’s stated purpose. Network installation and broader OpenCode or agent configuration changes are tied to explicit setup scripts; no malicious data flow or concealed automatic behavior was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T05:01:50.825Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T05:02:34.153Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 554 ms
- **AI review time:** 42262 ms
- **Total time:** 43328 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 identified; the install hook initializes workflow state, while broader agent setup requires an explicit command.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall creates the initial project state file; npm run setup and the bootstrap shell helper require explicit invocation.

- **Impact:** The automatic install effect is a project-local state file; no credential collection, unrelated data transmission, or hidden startup behavior was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T05:02:34.153Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The install hook writes an empty workflow-state record. The optional setup command configures OpenCode and may create AGENTS.md; the bootstrap helper can install RTK from its official GitHub host.

- **Rationale:** The automatic postinstall action creates an empty workflow state file consistent with the package’s stated purpose. Network installation and broader OpenCode or agent configuration changes are tied to explicit setup scripts; no malicious data flow or concealed automatic behavior was identified.

- **Files touched:** ${INIT\_CWD || process.cwd()}/.state/workflow-state.json, ${configDir}/opencode.json, ${configDir}/secrets/opencode-backup-\<timestamp\>.json, ${INIT\_CWD || process.cwd()}/AGENTS.md

- **Network endpoints:** github.com/obra/superpowers.git, raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/refs/heads/master/install.sh

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package describes itself as an MCP server for development workflow discipline., The postinstall hook runs install.js, which initializes an empty .state/workflow-state.json under the invoking project directory., The package starts its MCP server only when index.js is run directly., The broader OpenCode configuration and AGENTS.md setup is performed by the explicitly invoked setup command., The bootstrap shell helper downloads the RTK installer from its project’s official GitHub host only when the helper is run and RTK is absent.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall does create a file in the invoking project automatically., The optional setup command modifies OpenCode configuration and may create project-level AGENTS.md instructions.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9.

- Review the evidence and your use of @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9 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/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

### 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** exec.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/exec.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { exec as execCallback, execFile as execFileCallback } from "child_process";
L2: import { existsSync } from "fs";
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-husky.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/scripts/install-husky.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: * The `husky || true` idiom does not help on Windows, where npm runs scripts
L12: * through cmd.exe.
L13: */
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** factory-client.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/factory-client.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: 
L31: export const DEFAULT_POCKETBASE_URL = "https://pocketbase.programinglive.com";
L32: 
...
L107: */
L108: export function readFactoryConfig(env = process.env) {
L109: const url = clean(env.FACTORY_URL) || clean(env.FACTORY_API_URL);
...
L174: export function defaultDeviceFile(env = process.env) {
L175: return clean(env.FACTORY_DEVICE_FILE) || path.join(os.homedir(), ".config", "programinglive-factory", "device.json");
L176: }
...
L192: try {
L193: const id = JSON.parse(readFileSync(deviceFile, "utf8"))?.id;
L194: if (typeof id === "string" && UUID_RE.test(id)) return id;
```

### 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. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup-stack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/scripts/setup-stack.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L18: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
L19: import { execSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
L20: import os from 'os';
...
L22: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L23: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L24: const projectRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
L25: 
L26: export const SUPERPOWERS_SPEC = 'superpowers@git+https://github.com/obra/superpowers.git';
L27: export const MCP_SERVER_NAME = 'dev-workflow';
...
L33: */
L34: export function parseConfigPathOutput(stdout) {
L35: if (typeof stdout !== 'string' || stdout.trim() === '') return null;
```

### 11. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup-stack.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/scripts/setup-stack.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L163: try {
L164: execSync('npm install --no-audit --no-fund', { cwd: projectRoot, stdio: 'inherit' });
L165: safeLog('info', '✓ Dependencies installed.');
```

### 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:** scripts/setup-test-dbs.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/scripts/setup-test-dbs.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/setup-test-dbs.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2161
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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** exec.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.13.9/exec.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 11
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^18.0.9 (Dependency)
- mysql2 ^3.15.3 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.23.1 (Dependency)
- vite ^7.1.12 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.13.9
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T04:58:57.265Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-25T10:00:36.892Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T10:47:17.998Z
- **Known versions:** 64
- **Latest version:** 1.24.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** MCP server to enforce development workflow discipline
- **Maintainers:** moszes
- **Keywords:** mcp, workflow, development, discipline
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 80
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 389,784 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.13.9>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server>)
- [Homepage](<https://devworkflow.programinglive.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/issues>)
