---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@punks/cli/v/6.1.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@punks/cli/v/6.1.2.md"
package: "@punks/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@punks/cli@6.1.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "6.1.2"
---

# @punks/cli@6.1.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 6.1.2
- **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.

Inspected source supports explicit CLI agent configuration mutation with automatically approved tools, which the supplied policy classifies as warning-only. The scanner's stronger malware claims were not substantiated by inspected behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-06T11:26:51.246Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-06T11:28:12.011Z
- **Download time:** 1287 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2223 ms
- **AI review time:** 77254 ms
- **Total time:** 80765 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:** Explicit scaffolding commands can install a TypeScript MCP runtime and maintain project-level Codex configuration. This establishes an agent capability warning, but no confirmed malicious attack.

- **Trigger:** Running hi init or hi update with the TypeScript runtime selected.

- **Impact:** Codex gains automatically approved TypeScript inspection capabilities through installed runtime code; existing conflicting user servers are preserved.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-06T11:28:12.011Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The installer installs a pinned runtime with npm scripts disabled and writes a managed MCP server block whose selected read tools receive automatic approval. Later explicit updates refresh the managed configuration.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source supports explicit CLI agent configuration mutation with automatically approved tools, which the supplied policy classifies as warning-only. The scanner's stronger malware claims were not substantiated by inspected behavior.

- **Files touched:** .codex/config.toml

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The manifest has no npm install lifecycle hooks or runtime self-dependency., The explicit init command prompts for selection in interactive mode; other modes accept the proposal defaults., The installer synchronizes a TypeScript tool runtime and writes project-level .codex/config.toml., Generated MCP configuration enables selected TypeScript read tools with automatic approval., The runtime installation uses npm ci with lifecycle scripts disabled, and configuration merging avoids conflicting user-defined servers., The explicit update command reapplies installation using saved project settings without another selection prompt.

- **Evidence against:** No concrete credential theft, covert command-output export, or obfuscated executable payload was established from the inspected source., Agent configuration changes occur through CLI scaffolding operations, rather than npm installation hooks.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @punks/cli@6.1.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @punks/cli@6.1.2 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/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L155: `)+1;while(nl!==0){this.onNewLine(this.offset+nl);nl=this.source.indexOf(`
L156: `,nl)+1}}return{type,offset:this.offset,indent:this.indent,source:this.source}}startBlockValue(parent){switch(this.type){case"alias":case"scalar":case"single-quoted-scalar":case"do...
L157: `+ind(d+1));return`[
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L349: `);const preCommit=lines2.findIndex((line)=>line.trim()==="pre-commit:");if(preCommit===-1){return null}const preIndent=indent(lines2[preCommit]);const preCommitEnd=lines2.findInde...
L350: `).some((line)=>{const command=line.trim();return command.length>0&&!command.startsWith("#")&&(/^(?:(?:command|exec)\s+)?lefthook\s+run\s+["']?pre-commit["']?(?:\s|$)/u.test(comman...
L351:
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{createRequire}from"node:module";var __create=Object.create;var __getProtoOf=Object.getPrototypeOf;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnProp...
L3: `:`
```

### 6. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{createRequire}from"node:module";var __create=Object.create;var __getProtoOf=Object.getPrototypeOf;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnProp...
L3: `:`
L4: `;const separator=opt.whitespace?" = ":"=";const children=[];const keys2=opt.sort?Object.keys(obj).sort():Object.keys(obj);let padToChars=0;if(opt.align){padToChars=safe(keys2.filt...
L5: --> `+loc+`
...
L121: ${cb}`:comment}else{const cb=dc.commentBefore;dc.commentBefore=cb?`${comment}
L122: ${cb}`:comment}}if(afterDoc){for(let i=0;i<this.errors.length;++i)doc.errors.push(this.errors[i]);for(let i=0;i<this.warnings.length;++i)doc.warnings.push(this.warnings[i])}else{do...
L123: ${end.comment}`:end.comment}this.doc.range[2]=end.offset;break}default:this.errors.push(new
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/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
L151: `)return yield*this.pushCount(1);else if(ch==="\r"&&this.charAt(1)===`
L152: `)return yield*this.pushCount(2);else return 0}*pushSpaces(allowTabs){let i=this.pos-1;let ch;do{ch=this.buffer[++i]}while(ch===" "||allowTabs&&ch==="\t");const n=i-this.pos;if(n>0...
L153: `)+1;while(nl!==0){this.onNewLine(this.offset+nl);nl=this.source.indexOf(`
...
L155: `)+1;while(nl!==0){this.onNewLine(this.offset+nl);nl=this.source.indexOf(`
L156: `,nl)+1}}return{type,offset:this.offset,indent:this.indent,source:this.source}}startBlockValue(parent){switch(this.type){case"alias":case"scalar":case"single-quoted-scalar":case"do...
L157: `+ind(d+1));return`[
```

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/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:
`,nl)+1}}return{type,offset:this.offset,indent:this.indent,source:this.source}}startBlockValue(parent){switch(this.type){case"alias":case"scalar":case"single-quoted-scalar":case"do...
`,from)}}}stringBuilder=stringBuilder+str.substring(from,str.length-(midCRLF?1:0))}}return isReadonlyArrayNonEmpty(chunkBuilder)?chunkBuilder:null}const pullOrFlush=suspend2(()=>{i...
`){templateIndex-=1;rawIndex+=1}else if(nextRawCharacter==="u"&&rawTemplate[rawIndex+2]==="{"){rawIndex=rawTemplate.indexOf("}",rawIndex+3)}else{rawIndex+=ESCAPE_LENGTH[nextRawChar...
`}writeStdout(rendered);return outcome.kind==="expected-failure"||resultFail
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L247: ${annotate2("Wizard cancelled.",red)}`;var renderCommandBlock=(label,commandLine,commandColor,labelColor=white)=>{const lines2=wrapCommand(commandLine);return[annotate2(label,bold,...
L248: `)};var wrapCommand=(commandLine)=>{const width=88;const firstIndent="  $ ";const continuationIndent="    ";const args2=commandLine.map(formatShellArg);const lines2=[];let current=...
L249: `]);var ESCAPE_LENGTH={x:3,u:5};var splitByWhitespaces=(template,rawTemplate)=>{if(rawTemplate.length===0){return{tokens:[],hasLeadingWhitespace:false,hasTrailingWhitespace:false}}...
L250: `){templateIndex-=1;rawIndex+=1}else if(nextRawCharacter==="u"&&rawTemplate[rawIndex+2]==="{"){rawIndex=rawTemplate.indexOf("}",rawIndex+3)}else{rawIndex+=ESCAPE_LENGTH[nextRawChar...
L251: `;var renderJsonFailure=(failure)=
```

### 13. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{createRequire}from"node:module";var __create=Object.create;var __getProtoOf=Object.getPrototypeOf;var __defProp=Object.defineProperty;var __getOwnPropNames=Object.getOwnProp...
L3: `:`
L4: `;const separator=opt.whitespace?" = ":"=";const children=[];const keys2=opt.sort?Object.keys(obj).sort():Object.keys(obj);let padToChars=0;if(opt.align){padToChars=safe(keys2.filt...
L5: --> `+loc+`
...
L121: ${cb}`:comment}else{const cb=dc.commentBefore;dc.commentBefore=cb?`${comment}
L122: ${cb}`:comment}}if(afterDoc){for(let i=0;i<this.errors.length;++i)doc.errors.push(this.errors[i]);for(let i=0;i<this.warnings.length;++i)doc.warnings.push(this.warnings[i])}else{do...
L123: ${end.comment}`:end.comment}this.doc.range[2]=end.offset;break}default:this.errors.push(new
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@punks/cli@6.1.2/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/index.js
L247: ${annotate2("Wizard cancelled.",red)}`;var renderCommandBlock=(label,commandLine,commandColor,labelColor=white)=>{const lines2=wrapCommand(commandLine);return[annotate2(label,bold,...
L248: `)};var wrapCommand=(commandLine)=>{const width=88;const firstIndent="  $ ";const continuationIndent="    ";const args2=commandLine.map(formatShellArg);const lines2=[];let current=...
L249: `]);var ESCAPE_LENGTH={x:3,u:5};var splitByWhitespaces=(template,rawTemplate)=>{if(rawTemplate.length===0){return{tokens:[],hasLeadingWhitespace:false,hasTrailingWhitespace:false}}...
L250: `){templateIndex-=1;rawIndex+=1}else if(nextRawCharacter==="u"&&rawTemplate[rawIndex+2]==="{"){rawIndex=rawTemplate.indexOf("}",rawIndex+3)}e
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 19. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 21
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- react-devtools-core ^6.1.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @punks/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.1.2
- **Version published:** 2026-10-06T08:37:25.384Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T07:05:46.328Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T09:50:59.875Z
- **Known versions:** 42
- **Latest version:** 6.9.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Harness Intelligence scaffolding CLI
- **Maintainers:** simosabba, gegio, leonardobrunodev, stefan-garofalo, paolo-b
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,267,138 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@punks/cli/v/6.1.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/wearedevpunks/harness-intelligence>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/wearedevpunks/harness-intelligence/tree/main/apps/cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/wearedevpunks/harness-intelligence/issues>)
