---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.123"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@swirls/cli/v/0.1.123.md"
package: "@swirls/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@swirls/cli@0.1.123 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.123"
---

# @swirls/cli@0.1.123 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:** 0.1.123
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Global installation invokes a remote shell installer and executes its unpinned response. The package source cannot establish what that remote response does.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T16:27:00.715Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T16:27:33.026Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 12 ms
- **AI review time:** 31794 ms
- **Total time:** 32311 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Global installation invokes a remote shell installer and executes its unpinned response. The package source cannot establish what that remote response does.

- **Trigger:** npm or Bun global install with lifecycle scripts enabled, outside CI and Windows

- **Impact:** Remote server compromise or response changes can yield arbitrary code execution as the installer user.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T16:27:33.026Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall downloads and pipes a remote script to bash

- **Rationale:** The package has a real install-time remote execution surface, so it should be warned. Static inspection supports an advertised binary bootstrapper but not a malicious intent finding.

- **Files touched:** scripts/install.js, bin/swirls, $HOME/.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:** scripts/install.js postinstall runs \`curl -fsSL https://swirls.ai/install | bash\`., The lifecycle script is reachable on global npm/Bun installs outside CI., Downloaded shell content executes with the installing user's privileges., It copies ~/.local/bin/swirls over bin/swirls after the remote script completes.

- **Evidence against:** README.md and bin/README.txt describe this as the CLI binary-install mechanism., No credential harvesting, exfiltration, AI-agent configuration mutation, or destructive command appears in packaged source., The only endpoint is the package-aligned swirls.ai installer.

## 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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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@0.1.123/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:** 0.1.123
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T16:23:12.568Z
- **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/0.1.123>)