---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@promptctl/cc-candybar/v/1.169.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@promptctl/cc-candybar/v/1.169.1.md"
package: "@promptctl/cc-candybar"
report_status: "published"
title: "@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.169.1"
---

# @promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1 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:** 1.169.1
- **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 package's CLI and bundle implement the advertised Claude Code statusline and daemon, with setup exposed through explicit CLI commands. The static scanner's capability findings did not establish an attack chain or suspicious automatic behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 89.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T02:43:56.958Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T02:44:26.132Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2240 ms
- **AI review time:** 26423 ms
- **Total time:** 29174 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; the package provides a statusline renderer, daemon, and user-invoked setup commands.

- **Trigger:** Importing the CLI entrypoint loads the bundle; daemon and setup actions are selected through CLI commands.

- **Impact:** No malicious data collection, unrelated remote code execution, or unauthorized account action was found in the reviewed paths.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T02:44:26.132Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The bundle uses local process, filesystem, and network operations for its stated statusline and daemon functions.

- **Rationale:** The package's CLI and bundle implement the advertised Claude Code statusline and daemon, with setup exposed through explicit CLI commands. The static scanner's capability findings did not establish an attack chain or suspicious automatic behavior.

- **Files touched:** /tmp/cc-candybar-\<uid\>/, ~/.local/state/cc-candybar/, ~/.cache/cc-candybar/

- **Network endpoints:** registry.npmjs.org, raw.githubusercontent.com/promptctl/cc-candybar/main/pricing.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 89.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest describes a Claude Code statusline renderer and points to dist/index.mjs and bin/cc-candybar as entrypoints., The bin shim dynamically imports the package bundle; the manifest has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The reviewed network code contacts package-related hosts, including registry.npmjs.org and the project's GitHub pricing file; no unrelated credential collection or command-output exfiltration was identified.

- **Evidence against:** The bundle uses filesystem, process execution, and network APIs, which are consistent with its statusline, daemon, and CLI features., The plugin wizard guides an interactive setup and asks the user to run install/check commands; it is not an npm install hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1 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:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{createRequire as e}from"node:module";import t from"node:process";import{URL as n,URLSearchParams as r,fileURLToPath as i}from"node:url";import{json as a}from"node:stream/con...
L3: `),withdraw:()=>a.end()})}function Pt(e){let t;try{t=y(e,`utf8`).trim()}catch(e){if(e.code===`ENOENT`)return null;throw e}let n=/^exit (\d+)$/.exec(t);if(n)return{kind:`exit`,code:...
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L485: `)+1,a=0,o=0;for(let e of n.slice(r,i).split(`
L486: `)){let t=iJ(e);t.kind!==`blank`&&(a++,t.kind===`unparsed`&&o++)}return{lines:a,unparsed:o,whole:t}}function G4(e){let t=yo(e,lF+1);return t.kind===`ok`?N(W4(t.value.buf,t.value.fr...
L487: `)};return e.error===null?{...t,kind:`loaded`,unused:e.unused}:{...t,kind:`failed`,error:e.error}}const Z4=e=>k4(()=>jo(e));function Q4(e,t){let n=e=>JSON.stringify([e.managedDir,e...
...
L500: `).map(e=>e.trim().split(` `)).filter(([,e])=>e===t).map(([e])=>e)}const _7=/(^|\/)(cc-attach|bun-attach\.js)(\s|$)/;function v7(e,t,n){for(let r of P2(N2(e),t)){if(r.command.split...
L501: `);async function b7(e){if(process.platform===`linux`)return{executable:await f.promises.readlink(`/proc/${e}/exe`),argv:(await f.promises.readFile(`/proc/${e}/cmdline
```

### 8. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L485: `)+1,a=0,o=0;for(let e of n.slice(r,i).split(`
L486: `)){let t=iJ(e);t.kind!==`blank`&&(a++,t.kind===`unparsed`&&o++)}return{lines:a,unparsed:o,whole:t}}function G4(e){let t=yo(e,lF+1);return t.kind===`ok`?N(W4(t.value.buf,t.value.fr...
L487: `)};return e.error===null?{...t,kind:`loaded`,unused:e.unused}:{...t,kind:`failed`,error:e.error}}const Z4=e=>k4(()=>jo(e));function Q4(e,t){let n=e=>JSON.stringify([e.managedDir,e...
L488: `:null,r=f3(e.value);return r===null?{stdout:n??b3(e.value),stderr:``,code:0}:{stdout:n??``,stderr:`daemon-stats: ${r}\n`,code:1}}function d3(){return A(()=>({kind:`stats`}),c3,e=>...
...
L500: `).map(e=>e.trim().split(` `)).filter(([,e])=>e===t).map(([e])=>e)}const _7=/(^|\/)(cc-attach|bun-attach\.js)(\s|$)/;function v7(e,t,n){for(let r of P2(N2(e),t)){if(r.
```

### 9. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: contains invisible/control Unicode U+200C (zero width non-joiner)
`:case`\r`:case`\u2028`:case`\u2029`:b(),p=`default`;return;case void 0:return b(),x(`eof`)}b()},value(){switch(_){case`{`:case`[`:return x(`punctuator`,b());case`n`:return b(),S(`ull`),x(`null`,null);case`t`:return b(),S(`rue`),x(`boolean`
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

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.mjs
L485: `)+1,a=0,o=0;for(let e of n.slice(r,i).split(`
L486: `)){let t=iJ(e);t.kind!==`blank`&&(a++,t.kind===`unparsed`&&o++)}return{lines:a,unparsed:o,whole:t}}function G4(e){let t=yo(e,lF+1);return t.kind===`ok`?N(W4(t.value.buf,t.value.fr...
L487: `)};return e.error===null?{...t,kind:`loaded`,unused:e.unused}:{...t,kind:`failed`,error:e.error}}const Z4=e=>k4(()=>jo(e));function Q4(e,t){let n=e=>JSON.stringify([e.managedDir,e...
L488: `:null,r=f3(e.value);return r===null?{stdout:n??b3(e.value),stderr:``,code:0}:{stdout:n??``,stderr:`daemon-stats: ${r}\n`,code:1}}function d3(){return A(()=>({kind:`stats`}),c3,e=>...
...
L500: `).map(e=>e.trim().split(` `)).filter(([,e])=>e===t).map(([e])=>e)}const _7=/(^|\/)(cc-attach|bun-attach\.js)(
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/dist/index.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.mjs
L485: `)+1,a=0,o=0;for(let e of n.slice(r,i).split(`
L486: `)){let t=iJ(e);t.kind!==`blank`&&(a++,t.kind===`unparsed`&&o++)}return{lines:a,unparsed:o,whole:t}}function G4(e){let t=yo(e,lF+1);return t.kind===`ok`?N(W4(t.value.buf,t.value.fr...
L487: `)};return e.error===null?{...t,kind:`loaded`,unused:e.unused}:{...t,kind:`failed`,error:e.error}}const Z4=e=>k4(()=>jo(e));function Q4(e,t){let n=e=>JSON.stringify([e.managedDir,e...
L488: `:null,r=f3(e.value);return r===null?{stdout:n??b3(e.value),stderr:``,code:0}:{stdout:n??``,stderr:`daemon-stats: ${r}\n`,code:1}}function d3(){return A(()=>({kind:`stats`}),c3,e=>...
...
L500: `).map(e=>e.trim().split(` `)).filter(([,e])=>e===t).map(([e])=>e)}const _7=/(^|\/
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 13. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** plugin/bin/preview.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@promptctl/cc-candybar@1.169.1/plugin/bin/preview.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = plugin/bin/preview.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 6874
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. 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:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 4
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 33
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @promptctl/cc-candybar-darwin-arm64 1.169.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @promptctl/cc-candybar-darwin-x64 1.169.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @promptctl/cc-candybar-linux-arm64 1.169.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @promptctl/cc-candybar-linux-x64 1.169.1 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @promptctl/cc-candybar
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.169.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-31T02:42:01.797Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-03T12:41:01.931Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T18:03:26.680Z
- **Known versions:** 242
- **Latest version:** 1.189.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Statusline renderer for Claude Code — a JSON5-configurable DSL with daemon-cached data sources, byte-clean palette-aware composition, and OSC8 click verbs.
- **Author:** Brandon Fryslie
- **Maintainers:** brandon-fryslie
- **Keywords:** claude, powerline, statusline, typescript, claude-code
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^20.19.0 || \>=22.12.0
- **Artifact files:** 24
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,403,835 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@promptctl/cc-candybar/v/1.169.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/promptctl/cc-candybar>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/promptctl/cc-candybar#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/promptctl/cc-candybar/issues>)
