---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sshaaf/migiq/v/0.2.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sshaaf/migiq/v/0.2.3.md"
package: "@sshaaf/migiq"
report_status: "published"
title: "@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "0.2.3"
---

# @sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. The package can install behavior-bearing skills and an autonomous agent without an explicit setup command.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.2.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installing the package automatically modifies Claude and Cursor agent-control directories in the consumer project or home directory. It also runs a separate local CLI installer before copying package-provided skills and an agent.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-07T14:32:06.853Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-07T14:32:53.940Z
- **Download time:** 513 ms
- **Static scan time:** 97 ms
- **AI review time:** 46477 ms
- **Total time:** 47087 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:** Installing the package automatically modifies Claude and Cursor agent-control directories in the consumer project or home directory. It also runs a separate local CLI installer before copying package-provided skills and an agent.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall during package installation

- **Impact:** The package can install behavior-bearing skills and an autonomous agent without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, install.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-07T14:32:53.940Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Automatic external command execution and AI-agent control-surface writes

- **Attack narrative:** When npm installs this package, its postinstall starts install.js. The installer runs rgctl install --skill, then copies eight package skills into both .claude and .cursor and installs AGENT.md as a migrator agent. These are broad behavior-bearing AI-agent control surfaces in either the consuming project or the user home directory, and the mutation occurs without an explicit user setup command.

- **Rationale:** This is an automatic postinstall mutation of foreign AI-agent control surfaces combined with execution of another CLI installer. Under the isolation policy, that concrete chain requires blocking even though no direct secret theft was found.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills/, .cursor/skills/, .claude/agents/migrator/, .cursor/agents/migrator/, AGENT.md, mig-rgctl/, migiq/, mig-plan/, mig-prompt-builder/, mig-execute/, mig-test-gen/, mig-containerize/, mig-deploy/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** The postinstall hook automatically runs the installer., The installer invokes an external rgctl command during installation., The installer writes skills into both Claude and Cursor control directories., The installer copies an autonomous agent into both agent directories.

- **Evidence against:** No direct credential collection or network client code was found in the installer., The package has no runtime dependencies or self-dependency.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3.

- Avoid installing @sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/install.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L76: const skillPaths = [
L77: path.join(cwd, '.claude', 'skills', 'rgctl', 'SKILL.md'),
L78: path.join(cwd, '.cursor', 'skills', 'rgctl', 'SKILL.md'),
...
L96: // Create destination directory
L97: fs.mkdirSync(dest, { recursive: true });
L98: 
...
L108: } else {
L109: fs.copyFileSync(srcPath, destPath);
L110: }
...
L118: const destDir = path.dirname(dest);
L119: fs.mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
L120: fs.copyFileSync(src, dest);
```

### 7. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/install.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
#!/usr/bin/env node

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const os = require('os');
const { execsync } = require('child_process');
const packagejson = require('./package.json');
const version = packagejson.version;

   
                                    
   
function commandexists(cmd) {
  try {
    const check = process.platform === 'win32' ? `where ${cmd}` : `which ${cmd}`;
    execsync(check, { stdio: 'ignore' });
    return true;
  } catch {
    return false;
  }
}

const rgctl_candidate_paths = [
  'rgctl',
  path.join(os.homedir(), '.local', 'bin', 'rgctl'),
  '/opt/homebrew/bin/rgctl',
  '/usr/local/bin/rgctl',
];
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** mig-plan/evals/aggregate\_benchmark.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/mig-plan/evals/aggregate_benchmark.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = mig-plan/evals/aggregate_benchmark.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 10547
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. 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.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@sshaaf/migiq@0.2.3/package.json>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

## 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:** @sshaaf/migiq
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-07T14:29:35.458Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-07T14:32:53.940Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-07T14:32:53.940Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 0.2.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** AI-powered application migration orchestrator for modernizing legacy applications to cloud-native platforms
- **Author:** sshaaf
- **Keywords:** claude-code, migration, modernization, cloud-native, openshift, quarkus, spring-boot, ai, code-migration
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 50
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 382,749 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@sshaaf/migiq/v/0.2.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sshaaf/migIQ.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sshaaf/migIQ#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sshaaf/migIQ/issues>)
