---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.6.md"
package: "@skillsmith/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.8.6"
---

# @skillsmith/cli@0.8.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 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:** 0.8.6
- **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 16 finding(s) at 93.0% 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:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-13T01:30:41.623Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-13T01:30:49.235Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7104 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 7612 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@0.8.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of @skillsmith/cli@0.8.6 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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/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) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
"claude-code": join(homedir(), ".claude", "skills"),
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
// `.claude/agents`)") -- this codebase already has independently
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
dir: join(homedir(), ".claude", "agents"),
```

### 8. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/cli.js:
// ../../node_modules/is-docker/index.js
"../../node_modules/is-docker/index.js"() {
// ../../node_modules/is-inside-container/index.js
"../../node_modules/is-inside-container/index.js"() {
// ../../node_modules/is-wsl/index.js
"../../node_modules/is-wsl/index.js"() {
// ../../node_modules/powershell-utils/index.js
"../../node_modules/powershell-utils/index.js"() {
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/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();
```

### 10. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/dist/cli.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
extractskillid: () => "config set",
  extractframework: () => "cli"
});
function createconfigcommand2() {
  const config2 = new command27("config").description(
    "get or set skillsmith configuration values (~/.skillsmith/config.json)"
  );
  config2.command("get <key>").description("read a configuration value (e.g. `audit_mode`)").action(configgetaction);
  config2.command("set <key> <value>").description("write a configuration value (atomic; tier-revalidated for audit_mode)").action(configsetaction);
  return config2;
}

// src/commands/telemetry.ts
import { command as command28 } from "commander";

// src/commands/telemetry.action.ts
import { existssync as existssync28, copyfilesync as copyfiles
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** templates/skill-telemetry.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/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]
```

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** templates/skill-telemetry.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@skillsmith/cli@0.8.6/templates/skill-telemetry.sh>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @skillsmith/cli@0.8.1
matchedIdentity = npm:QHNraWxsc21pdGgvY2xp:0.8.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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 0.220.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-runtime-node 0.33.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/instrumentation-undici 0.30.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/resources 2.9.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-node 0.220.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base 2.9.0 (Dependency)
- @opentelemetry/semantic-conventions 1.43.0 (Dependency)
- chalk 5.6.2 (Dependency)
- chokidar 5.0.0 (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 9.4.1 (Dependency)
- posthog-node 5.47.3 (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)
- @smith-horn/enterprise ^0.3.6 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @skillsmith/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.8.6
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-13T01:29:11.166Z
- **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:** Publish versioned agent skills to a team-scoped registry, catch drift across installs, and deprecate what's gone stale.
- **Maintainers:** wrsmith108
- **Keywords:** skillsmith, ai, skills, agent-skills, mcp, llm, cli, claude-code, cursor, copilot, skill-management
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.22.0
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,048,928 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@skillsmith/cli/v/0.8.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/smith-horn/skillsmith/issues>)
