---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.122"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.122.md"
package: "@swirls/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@swirls/cli@0.1.122 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.122"
---

# @swirls/cli@0.1.122 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:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.1.122
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

A global npm install executes a remote shell script from swirls.ai through curl and bash. The resulting binary is copied into the package bin directory.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T14:09:12.160Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T14:09:42.704Z
- **Download time:** 754 ms
- **Static scan time:** 17 ms
- **AI review time:** 29773 ms
- **Total time:** 30544 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global npm install executes a remote shell script from swirls.ai through curl and bash. The resulting binary is copied into the package bin directory.

- **Trigger:** npm or Bun global installation with lifecycle scripts enabled on non-Windows, non-CI hosts

- **Impact:** Remote endpoint content can run with the installing user's privileges and supply the installed CLI binary.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install.js, bin/swirls, bin/README.txt, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T14:09:42.704Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall remote shell-script download and execution

- **Rationale:** Source confirms an install-time remote code execution primitive, but no package-contained evidence establishes credential theft, destructive action, persistence, or a malicious payload. Treat it as a high-risk remote bootstrap requiring a warning rather than a confirmed malicious package.

- **Files touched:** scripts/install.js, bin/swirls, ~/.local/bin/swirls

- **Network endpoints:** https://swirls.ai/install

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json defines install-time postinstall., scripts/install.js runs \`curl -fsSL https://swirls.ai/install | bash\` during global install., Downloaded script can execute arbitrary remote shell code before the package binary is installed., scripts/install.js copies ~/.local/bin/swirls into bin/swirls, replacing the placeholder.

- **Evidence against:** Only swirls.ai endpoint is hard-coded; no credential harvesting or exfiltration is present in inspected files., Lifecycle script is limited to non-CI, non-Windows global installs., bin/swirls is a transparent placeholder that documents the postinstall dependency.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: stdio: 'inherit',
L50: shell: true,
L51: })
```

### 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. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.postinstall -> scripts/install.js
L13: 
L14: import { execSync } from 'node:child_process'
L15: import { chmodSync, copyFileSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs'
...
L18: 
L19: const INSTALL_URL = 'https://swirls.ai/install'
L20: 
...
L28: const INSTALLED_BINARY = join(
L29: process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE || '',
L30: '.local',
...
L36: 
L37: if (process.env.CI === 'true' || process.env.CI === '1') {
L38: process.exit(0)
```

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

### 13. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@swirls/cli@0.1.122/scripts/install.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 = @swirls/cli@0.1.118
matchedPath = scripts/install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHN3aXJscy9jbGk:0.1.118
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 25
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @swirls/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.122
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T13:41:14.772Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T03:41:37.204Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T19:22:32.661Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 0.1.124
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Swirls command line application
- **Author:** Swirls
- **Maintainers:** eric-byteslice, cj-byteslice, dylanbyteslice
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,967 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.122>)