---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.0.md"
package: "@skillsmith/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.8.0"
---

# @skillsmith/cli@0.8.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.8.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-05T04:48:22.111Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-05T04:48:26.225Z
- **Download time:** 773 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3339 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 4114 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @skillsmith/cli@0.8.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @skillsmith/cli@0.8.0 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: 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. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = supabase_service_key
severity = critical
line = 25389
matchedText = var PROD...t8";
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L214: if (ts.isImportDeclaration(node)) {
L215: const importInfo = extractImport(node, relativePath);
L216: if (importInfo) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L50: function createLoggerInstance(namespace) {
L51: const useJson = process.env.LOG_FORMAT === "json";
L52: const minLevel = process.env.LOG_LEVEL ? parseInt(process.env.LOG_LEVEL, 10) : LogLevel.WARN;
...
L815: 
L816: // ../../node_modules/powershell-utils/index.js
L817: import process5 from "node:process";
...
L850: ];
L851: executePowerShell.encodeCommand = (command) => Buffer2.from(command, "utf16le").toString("base64");
L852: executePowerShell.escapeArgument = (value) => `'${String(value).replaceAll("'", "''")}'`;
...
L932: const command = String.raw`(Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\UrlAssociations\http\UserChoice").ProgId`;
L933: const { stdout } = await executePowerShell(command, { powerShellPath: psPath });
L934: return stdout.trim();
```

### 9. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 40.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 11. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** templates/skill-telemetry.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0/templates/skill-telemetry.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = templates/sk[redacted]
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 6902
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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.

### 15. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.0/dist/cli.js>)

Supabase service role key (JWT) in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = supabase_service_key
severity = critical
line = 25389
matchedText = var PROD...t8";
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 22
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 23

### Published dependency entries
- @inquirer/prompts 7.10.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/api 1.9.1 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-http 0.219.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-runtime-node 0.32.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-undici 0.29.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/resources 2.8.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-node 0.219.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base 2.8.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions 1.41.1 (Dependency)
- chalk 5.6.2 (Dependency)
- chokidar 4.0.3 (Dependency)
- cli-table3 0.6.5 (Dependency)
- commander 14.0.3 (Dependency)
- fts5-sql-bundle 1.0.2 (Dependency)
- gray-matter 4.0.3 (Dependency)
- open 11.0.0 (Dependency)
- ora 9.3.0 (Dependency)
- posthog-node 5.29.2 (Dependency)
- tree-sitter-wasms 0.1.13 (Dependency)
- typescript 5.9.3 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter 0.25.10 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.8.3 (Dependency)
- @skillsmith/enterprise \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @skillsmith/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.8.0
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-03T22:30:44.245Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T03:00:44.110Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-31T13:12:25.748Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.8.16
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI tools for Skillsmith skill discovery and authentication
- **Maintainers:** wrsmith108
- **Keywords:** skillsmith, ai, skills, agent-skills, mcp, llm, cli, claude-code, cursor, copilot, skill-discovery, skill-management
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.22.0
- **Artifact files:** 8
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,844,473 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith/issues>)
