---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@su-record/vibe/v/4.2.21"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@su-record/vibe/v/4.2.21.md"
package: "@su-record/vibe"
report_status: "published"
title: "@su-record/vibe@4.2.21 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.2.21"
---

# @su-record/vibe@4.2.21 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 4.2.21
- **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 global postinstall automatically configures this package’s Claude or Codex integration, creating residual lifecycle risk for agent setup. The inspected behavior is package-owned integration setup, with no confirmed broader attack behavior; downgrade to a warning.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 82.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-19T01:00:45.743Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-19T01:01:27.832Z
- **Download time:** 1023 ms
- **Static scan time:** 868 ms
- **AI review time:** 40196 ms
- **Total time:** 42089 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:** A global npm installation can automatically set up this package’s agent integrations in detected user homes.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package globally with npm, unless VIBE\_SKIP\_SETUP is set.

- **Impact:** Agent configuration is changed during installation, enabling the package’s hooks in supported clients. No separate setup command is required for this path.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, dist/install/global.js, dist/install/plugin.js, dist/install/register.js, dist/install/tree.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-19T01:01:27.832Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The postinstall hook registers the package’s Claude or Codex plugin, or writes its home-level cards, skills, and hooks.

- **Rationale:** The global postinstall automatically configures this package’s Claude or Codex integration, creating residual lifecycle risk for agent setup. The inspected behavior is package-owned integration setup, with no confirmed broader attack behavior; downgrade to a warning.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.js, dist/install/global.js, dist/install/plugin.js, dist/install/register.js, dist/install/tree.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 82.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json defines a postinstall hook; scripts/postinstall.js runs setup for global npm installs unless VIBE\_SKIP\_SETUP is set., The setup routine processes detected client homes, registers the package’s Claude or Codex plugin, and falls back to writing home-level integration files., The package builds agent hooks for session, stop, and tool-use events. The inspected plugin installer assembles the local plugin tree and the Claude registration code checks installed plugin metadata., The cited plugin and registration locations were inspected as required; they sit within the first-party local plugin setup flow.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected install path is limited to setting up this package’s agent integrations; no unrelated credential transfer or remote payload execution was identified there.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @su-record/vibe@4.2.21.

- Review the evidence and your use of @su-record/vibe@4.2.21 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/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/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/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/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:** mcpb/server/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/mcpb/server/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: */
L11: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L12: import fs from 'node:fs';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/readerSession.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/readerSession.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L37: * Windows spawns a `.cmd` shim through the shell, and Node joins the arguments with spaces without
L38: * quoting — an empty argument vanishes and `--tools` would swallow the next flag. Quote for cmd.exe
L39: * whatever is empty or holds a space, a quote or a metacharacter; leave plain words alone.
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/tree.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/tree.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
L2: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L3: import fs from 'node:fs';
...
L7: const result = spawnSync('git', args, { cwd: root, encoding: 'utf-8' });
L8: return result.status === 0 ? result.stdout : null;
L9: }
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/github.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/github.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L2: import { readJson } from './store.js';
L3: import { usage } from './errors.js';
L4: const API = 'https://api.github.com';
L5: export function githubToken() {
L6: const env = process.env['GITHUB_TOKEN'] ?? process.env['GH_TOKEN'];
L7: if (env)
```

### 11. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/install/global.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/install/global.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
L17: export const LEGACY_SKILL_NAMES = ['vibe.discover', 'vibe.scope', 'vibe.build', 'vibe.prove', 'vibe.handoff'];
L18: const CLIENT_DIR = { claude: '.claude', codex: '.codex', hermes: '.hermes' };
L19: /** User-level layout: one per client home. Codex reads a native `~/.codex/hooks.json` shaped like Claude's settings. */
L20: export function globalLayout(client) {
...
L22: if (client === 'claude')
L23: return { card: path.join(dir, 'CLAUDE.md'), skills: path.join(dir, 'skills'), hook: path.join(dir, 'settings.json') };
L24: if (client === 'codex')
L25: return { card: path.join(dir, 'AGENTS.md'), skills: path.join(dir, 'skills'), hook: path.join(dir, 'hooks.json') };
L26: // Hermes Agent: identity file SOUL.md is the only home-level instruction it always loads; skills follow the agentskil
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/install/plugin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/install/plugin.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.
ir.cjs', 'knowledge-auto.cjs', 'knowledge-projects.cjs', 'knowledge-lint.cjs', 'knowledge-upkeep.cjs', 'knowledge-journal.cjs', 'retest.cjs', 'journal.cjs', 'obsidian.cjs', 'slice-command.cjs', 'slice-store.cjs', 'slice-guard.cjs'];
export const marketplace_name = 'vibe-local';
                                                                                                                                       
export function pluginpaths(home = os.homedir()) {
    return {
        home,
        tree: path.join(home, '.config', 'vibe', 'plugin', 'vibe'),
        marketplace: path.join(home, '.agents', 'plugins', 'marketplace.json'),
    };
}
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 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: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/docs/pdf.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/docs/pdf.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** mcpb/server/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/mcpb/server/index.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = mcpb/server/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/inspect.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/inspect.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/inspect.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/readerSession.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/readerSession.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/readerSession.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/check-process.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/check-process.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/check-process.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/skills.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/skills.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/skills.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/common.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/cli/common.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/cli/common.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/failure.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/failure.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/failure.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/github.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/github.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/github.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/risk-signals.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@su-record/vibe@4.2.21/dist/core/risk-signals.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @su-record/vibe@4.2.1
matchedPath = dist/core/risk-signals.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN1LXJlY29yZC92aWJl:4.2.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 6
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- ajv ^8.17.1 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @su-record/vibe
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.2.21
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-19T00:50:21.167Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T08:50:56.066Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T07:08:08.094Z
- **Known versions:** 83
- **Latest version:** 4.2.23
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Your personal FDE in Claude and Codex. Understand the work, use the right tools, deliver and retain useful context. One entry: vibe.
- **Maintainers:** sutory
- **Keywords:** harness, ax, fde, forward-deployed-engineer, verification, claude-code, codex, chatgpt
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.12.0
- **Artifact files:** 292
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,467,016 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@su-record/vibe/v/4.2.21>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/su-record/vibe>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/su-record/vibe#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/su-record/vibe/issues>)
