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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@remcp/runtime/v/0.2.179"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@remcp/runtime/v/0.2.179.md"
package: "@remcp/runtime"
report_status: "published"
title: "@remcp/runtime@0.2.179 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.179"
---

# @remcp/runtime@0.2.179 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 0.2.179
- **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 has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged source paths show local device operations and ordinary MCP transport behavior. The inspected evidence does not establish malicious behavior; the static warnings do not change that assessment.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-25T07:28:47.657Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-25T07:29:24.440Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1489 ms
- **AI review time:** 34513 ms
- **Total time:** 36783 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 package entrypoint, screenshot and file-tool paths, or flagged dependency excerpts.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when a user starts the local runtime; screenshot capture occurs when its tool is invoked.

- **Impact:** These inspected behaviors support the runtime's local device and MCP functions; no unrelated network transfer or unauthorized mutation was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-25T07:29:24.440Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code starts an MCP runtime, captures screenshots through local backends or the desktop portal, and forwards subscribed events through the server transport.

- **Rationale:** The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged source paths show local device operations and ordinary MCP transport behavior. The inspected evidence does not establish malicious behavior; the static warnings do not change that assessment.

- **Files touched:** src/index.mjs, src/tools/files-screenshots.mjs, src/tools/files-write-edit.mjs, src/screenshot-portal.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json has no lifecycle hooks; it defines a local runtime CLI and two runtime dependencies., The screenshot tool invokes local screenshot utilities with a requested output file; the portal helper detects the local Wayland session., The write tool enforces a configured size limit; the flagged dependency paths expose ordinary package entrypoints and MCP transport behavior., The flagged event-bus code filters and forwards subscribed server events within the MCP transport.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @remcp/runtime@0.2.179.

- Review the evidence and your use of @remcp/runtime@0.2.179 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. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** src/screenshot-portal.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@remcp/runtime@0.2.179/src/screenshot-portal.mjs>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = @remcp/runtime; repositoryIdentity = remcp; dependency = @jellybrick/dbus-next
L249: timeoutMs = DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS,
L250: loadDbus = () => import('@jellybrick/dbus-next'),
L251: } = {}) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** src/helpers/wayland\_eis\_sender.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@remcp/runtime@0.2.179/src/helpers/wayland_eis_sender.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = src/helpers/wayland_eis_sender.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 15744
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 9. 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.

### 10. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/tools/files-screenshots.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@remcp/runtime@0.2.179/src/tools/files-screenshots.mjs%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
```

### 11. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@remcp/runtime@0.2.179/package.json>)

package.json has no lifecycle hooks; it defines a local runtime CLI and two runtime dependencies.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "start": "node src/index.mjs",
    "check": "node scripts/check.mjs",
    "test": "node --import ./test/setup.mjs --test test/*.test.mjs"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@jellybrick/dbus-next": "^0.11.3",
    "@modelcontextprotocol/server": "^2.3.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@m
```

### 12. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** src/tools/files-screenshots.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@remcp/runtime@0.2.179/src/tools/files-screenshots.mjs>)

The screenshot tool invokes local screenshot utilities with a requested output file; the portal helper detects the local Wayland session.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
export const SCREENSHOT_COMMANDS = [
  { command: 'grim', args: file => [file] },
  { command: 'gnome-screenshot', args: file => ['-f', file] },
  { command: 'spectacle', args: file => ['-b', '-n', '-o', file]
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @jellybrick/dbus-next ^0.11.3 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/server ^2.3.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @remcp/runtime
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.179
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-25T07:24:53.449Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-17T00:07:21.569Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T12:55:17.605Z
- **Known versions:** 123
- **Latest version:** 0.2.230
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** First-party ReMCP local device runtime: filesystem, terminal, computer-use, browser, diagnostics and document tools over MCP.
- **Author:** Anton Baider
- **Maintainers:** antonbaider
- **Keywords:** mcp, model-context-protocol, remcp, remote, terminal, filesystem, self-hosted
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.5.0
- **Artifact files:** 92
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,006,069 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@remcp/runtime/v/0.2.179>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/getremcp/remcp>)
- [Homepage](<https://remcp.site/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/antonbaider/remcp/issues>)
