---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge/report.md"
package: "@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge"
report_status: "published"
title: "@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.6"
---

# @saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Prompts may contain private messages, source code, or other user-provided content and are sent to the telemetry adapter without an evident disclosure in the README. The adapter’s destination is not inspectable here.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.1.6
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The CLI deliberately bypasses its prompt redaction and sends up to 8,192 characters of agent prompt content through default-on telemetry. This is concealed collection of user-provided content, so the package should be blocked.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T02:33:06.674Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T02:33:54.446Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2630 ms
- **AI review time:** 44635 ms
- **Total time:** 47772 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:** Default-on telemetry receives user prompts through a deliberate sanitizer bypass.

- **Trigger:** Starting the bridge listener with telemetry enabled, which is the default.

- **Impact:** Prompts may contain private messages, source code, or other user-provided content and are sent to the telemetry adapter without an evident disclosure in the README. The adapter’s destination is not inspectable here.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T02:33:54.446Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI records up to 8,192 characters of the agent prompt in an \`agentPrompt\` field, explicitly chosen to avoid the sanitizer’s \`prompt\` redaction, then emits sanitized log fields through the telemetry adapter.

- **Attack narrative:** When the bridge starts, it loads its telemetry adapter unless disabled. During message processing, it adds up to 8,192 characters of the agent prompt to telemetry under \`agentPrompt\`; a source comment says this field name avoids the sanitizer’s redaction of \`prompt\`. The resulting fields are emitted to the adapter. This deliberate bypass conceals the collection of user message or code content from the sanitizer; the adapter’s destination is not visible in the inspected source.

- **Rationale:** The CLI deliberately bypasses its prompt redaction and sends up to 8,192 characters of agent prompt content through default-on telemetry. This is concealed collection of user-provided content, so the package should be blocked.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The CLI loads the package’s telemetry adapter by default; disabling it requires a specific environment variable., The bridge logs an agent prompt capped at 8,192 characters and deliberately names it \`agentPrompt\` to bypass the sanitizer that redacts \`prompt\`., Sanitized log fields are passed to the telemetry adapter’s \`emit\` method., The telemetry adapter receives the app ID and machine hostname when the bridge starts.

- **Evidence against:** The prompt is used by the bridge’s core feature: sending Xiaojiu messages to a local coding agent., Telemetry can be disabled with \`XIAOJIU\_BRIDGE\_TELEMETRY\_DISABLED\`., The telemetry adapter’s network destination is not present in the inspected package source.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6.

- Avoid installing @saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## 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/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: import crossSpawn from "cross-spawn";
L25: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L26: function spawnProcess(command, args = [], options = {}) {
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1465: try {
L1466: const imported = await import(normalizeModuleSpecifier(mod));
L1467: const factory = imported.default ?? imported.createAdapter;
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import { join } from "path";
L4: if (!process.env.XIAOJIU_BRIDGE_HOME && process.env.npm[redacted] === "cli") {
L5: const localHome = join(process.cwd(), ".xiaojiu");
L6: if (existsSync(join(localHome, "config.json"))) {
...
L17: import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
L18: var packageJsonPath = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "package.json");
L19: var manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(packageJsonPath, "utf8"));
L20: var packageName = manifest.name;
...
L24: import crossSpawn from "cross-spawn";
L25: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L26: function spawnProcess(command, args = [], options = {}) {
...
L87: let settled = false;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import { join } from "path";
L4: if (!process.env.XIAOJIU_BRIDGE_HOME && process.env.npm[redacted] === "cli") {
L5: const localHome = join(process.cwd(), ".xiaojiu");
L6: if (existsSync(join(localHome, "config.json"))) {
...
L17: import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
L18: var packageJsonPath = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..", "package.json");
L19: var manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(packageJsonPath, "utf8"));
L20: var packageName = manifest.name;
...
L24: import crossSpawn from "cross-spawn";
L25: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L26: function spawnProcess(command, args = [], options = {}) {
...
L87: let settled = false;
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 13. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.6/dist/cli.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 = @saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge@0.1.5
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.1.5
similarity = 0.750
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 31
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^1.4.0 (Dependency)
- @saltpub/xiaojiu-bridge-telemetry 0.0.2 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- cross-spawn ^7.0.6 (Dependency)
- graceful-fs ^4.2.11 (Dependency)
- proper-lockfile ^4.1.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T02:29:02.772Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-15T13:11:03.533Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T12:34:54.674Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 0.1.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Bridge Xiaojiu IM with local CLI coding agents
- **Keywords:** xiaojiu, im, claude, claude-code, codex, cli, channel, bridge
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.12.0
- **Artifact files:** 8
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,153,160 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@saltpub/xiaojiu-agent-bridge>)
