---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.1.34"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.1.34.md"
package: "@sciagent/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sciagent/cli@1.1.34 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.1.34"
---

# @sciagent/cli@1.1.34 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier
- **Selected version:** 1.1.34
- **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.

The install hook creates a concrete unverified remote-code supply-chain surface, but inspected source does not show confirmed malicious behavior or foreign AI-agent control-surface mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-23T15:09:28.641Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-23T15:10:10.832Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 310 ms
- **AI review time:** 41117 ms
- **Total time:** 42191 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:** npm postinstall retrieves large remote binaries and SDK content, then installs executable files in a per-user SciAgent directory. The CLI subsequently launches the downloaded binary and performs background updates.

- **Trigger:** npm installation; later invocation of sciagent

- **Impact:** A compromised configured release, package registry, or mirror can supply code executed as the installing user.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, bin/sciagent.js, scripts/chmod.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-23T15:10:10.832Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** unverified remote binary staging and execution

- **Rationale:** The install hook creates a concrete unverified remote-code supply-chain surface, but inspected source does not show confirmed malicious behavior or foreign AI-agent control-surface mutation.

- **Files touched:** ~/.sciagent/bin/sciagent, ~/.sciagent/bin/codebuddy-headless, %LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin\\sciagent.exe, %LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin\\codebuddy-headless.exe

- **Network endpoints:** https://jihulab.com, https://u250924-a969-d9c894d0.westb.seetacloud.com:8443, https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com, https://mirrors.aliyun.com, https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn, https://pypi.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json runs postinstall., scripts/postinstall.js downloads unsigned platform binaries during install., Postinstall writes executables under ~/.sciagent/bin or %LOCALAPPDATA%\\sciagent\\bin., Postinstall falls back to global npm install of @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code., bin/sciagent.js later executes the downloaded binary and auto-updates it., No hash, signature, or provenance verification is implemented.

- **Evidence against:** No credential or environment harvesting found beyond LOCALAPPDATA., No exfiltration, AI-agent configuration writes, or broad filesystem targeting found., Shell/process use is tied to downloading, extracting, and launching the package binary.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sciagent/cli@1.1.34.

- Review the evidence and your use of @sciagent/cli@1.1.34 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/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/sciagent.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/bin/sciagent.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19: 
L20: const { spawn, execSync } = require('child_process');
L21: const path = require('path');
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L583: if (process.platform === 'win32') {
L584: // Windows: 使用 PowerShell Copy-Item
L585: const tmpScript = path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'sciagent-replace.ps1');
```

### 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: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: 
L9: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L10: const path = require('path');
L11: const fs = require('fs');
L12: const https = require('https');
L13: const http = require('http');
...
L36: // 优先使用环境变量，否则使用默认服务器
L37: const RELEASE_SERVER_URL = process.env.RELEASE_SERVER_URL ||
L38: 'https://u250924-a969-d9c894d0.westb.seetacloud.com:8443';
...
L72: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L73: const platform = process.platform;
L74: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.1.34/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L454: try {
L455: execSync('npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code', {
L456: stdio: 'inherit',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @sciagent/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.34
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-23T14:04:21.105Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-06T02:40:03.049Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-14T08:25:34.618Z
- **Known versions:** 68
- **Latest version:** 1.3.73
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** SciAgent CLI - AI Research Assistant
- **Author:** SciAgent Team
- **Maintainers:** liuteng88
- **Keywords:** ai, research, agent, cli, codebuddy
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16
- **Supported OS:** linux, darwin, win32
- **Supported CPU:** x64, arm64
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 65,670 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.1.34>)
- [Repository](<https://gitee.com/garva/research-agent>)