---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.20.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.20.0.md"
package: "@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server"
report_status: "published"
title: "@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.20.0"
---

# @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 19 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:** 1.20.0
- **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.

This is warning-level runtime telemetry: it is disabled unless a monitor URL is configured, but the transmitted snapshot includes identifying project and task details. No install-time exfiltration or fixed external collector was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-02T09:59:40.009Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-02T10:00:46.283Z
- **Download time:** 770 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1143 ms
- **AI review time:** 64359 ms
- **Total time:** 66274 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:** Optional runtime telemetry can disclose identifying workflow details to a configured monitor.

- **Trigger:** A workflow state save while DEVWF\_MONITOR\_URL is configured.

- **Impact:** The endpoint receives machine and project details, task descriptions, plans, and session metadata.

- **Evidence paths:** monitor.js, workflow-state.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-02T10:00:46.283Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The reporter posts a snapshot to the configured URL's /api/session endpoint.

- **Rationale:** This is warning-level runtime telemetry: it is disabled unless a monitor URL is configured, but the transmitted snapshot includes identifying project and task details. No install-time exfiltration or fixed external collector was identified.

- **Files touched:** monitor.js, workflow-state.js

- **Network endpoints:** User-configured DEVWF\_MONITOR\_URL host; no fixed host in source

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** When DEVWF\_MONITOR\_URL is set, the monitor sends a POST request to that configured endpoint., The snapshot includes machine and project identifiers, task description, workflow plan, and session metadata., Workflow state saves automatically invoke the monitor reporter., The postinstall script creates a local .state/workflow-state.json file under the invoking project directory.

- **Evidence against:** The monitor does not send when DEVWF\_MONITOR\_URL is empty; no fixed endpoint is defined in monitor.js., The install hook's observed behavior is local state-file setup, not network transmission.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0 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/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/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@1.20.0/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@1.20.0/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@1.20.0/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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** security/log-bridge.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/security/log-bridge.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: let security;
L4: const ready=Promise.all([import('./sanitizer.js'),import('./policy.js')]).then(([logging,policy])=>{security={...logging,...policy};});
L5: function safeLog(level,...values) {
```

### 8. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** workflow-state.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/workflow-state.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L16: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L17: 
...
L71: *
L72: * PowerShell menulis BOM (EF BB BF) di awal berkas, dan `JSON.parse` menolaknya.
L73: * Kegagalannya tidak kelihatan: `load()` menangkapnya lalu memperlakukan state
...
L107: try {
L108: return { status: "ok", data: parseStateJson(raw), raw };
L109: } catch (error) {
...
L178: function resolveUserId(stateDir) {
L179: const envUserId = (process.env.DEV_WORKFLOW_USER_ID || "").trim();
L180: if (envUserId) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. 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@1.20.0/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;
```

### 13. 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@1.20.0/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.');
```

### 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:** scripts/setup-test-dbs.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/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]
```

### 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.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** db/adapters/sqlite.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/db/adapters/sqlite.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 = 6
```

### 19. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** workflow-state.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.20.0/workflow-state.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server@1.19.31
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:1.19.31
similarity = 0.933
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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:** 1.20.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-02T08:59:55.627Z
- **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:** 127
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,550,919 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/v/1.20.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server>)
- [Homepage](<https://devworkflow.programinglive.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/programinglive/dev-workflow-mcp-server/issues>)
