---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.2.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.2.7.md"
package: "@sciagent/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sciagent/cli@1.2.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.2.7"
---

# @sciagent/cli@1.2.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 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:** 1.2.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

npm postinstall fetches unverified executable payloads and writes them to the user's SciAgent directory. The CLI subsequently launches and auto-updates those payloads.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-01T11:11:33.935Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-01T11:12:04.487Z
- **Download time:** 503 ms
- **Static scan time:** 208 ms
- **AI review time:** 29840 ms
- **Total time:** 30552 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm postinstall fetches unverified executable payloads and writes them to the user's SciAgent directory. The CLI subsequently launches and auto-updates those payloads.

- **Trigger:** npm installation; later \`sciagent\` invocation

- **Impact:** A compromised or substituted download source can supply code executed as the installing user.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-01T11:12:04.487Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** install-time remote binary staging and runtime execution

- **Rationale:** The package is an unsigned remote binary bootstrapper with install-time side effects and runtime execution of fetched payloads. This warrants a warning, but source inspection does not establish malicious intent or a block-level foreign agent-control mutation.

- **Files touched:** ~/.sciagent/bin/sciagent, ~/.sciagent/bin/codebuddy-headless, ~/.sciagent/bin/.version, ~/.sciagent/bin/.pending-update

- **Network endpoints:** https://jihulab.com, https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741, https://pypi.org, https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com, https://mirrors.aliyun.com, https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.js on install., postinstall downloads platform binaries from JihuLab/self-hosted endpoints into ~/.sciagent/bin., Downloaded binaries receive executable permissions without checksum/signature verification., postinstall falls back to \`npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code\`., bin/sciagent.js later executes the downloaded binary and auto-downloads updates.

- **Evidence against:** No source evidence of credential/file harvesting or exfiltration., No AI-agent configuration/control-surface writes were found., Remote payload handling is presented as the package's CLI/bootstrap mechanism, not a covert unrelated action.

## 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@1.2.7/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@1.2.7/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@1.2.7/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@1.2.7/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L607: if (process.platform === 'win32') {
L608: // Windows: 使用 PowerShell Copy-Item
L609: 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@1.2.7/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');
...
L41: // 自建服务器配置（备用源）
L42: const SELF_HOSTED_URL = process.env.RELEASE_SERVER_URL || 'https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741?token=BdZ2oxzimV';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 10. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.2.7/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Install-named source file stages remote content through filesystem writes and execution.

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');
...
L41: // 自建服务器配置（备用源）
L42: const SELF_HOSTED_URL = process.env.RELEASE_SERVER_URL || 'https://px1-jcy.matpool.com:26741?token=BdZ2oxzimV';
L43: 
...
L87: function getCodebuddyBinDir() {
L88: const platform = process.platform;
L89: if (platform === 'win32') {
```

### 11. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sciagent/cli@1.2.7/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L485: try {
L486: execSync('npm install -g @tencent-ai/codebuddy-code', {
L487: stdio: 'inherit',
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. 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:** 1.2.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-01T11:08:38.724Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-06T02:40:03.049Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-12T03:31:13.684Z
- **Known versions:** 65
- **Latest version:** 1.3.64
- **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:** 82,931 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sciagent/cli/v/1.2.7>)
- [Repository](<https://gitee.com/garva/research-agent>)