---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tapi-dev/sdk/v/0.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tapi-dev/sdk/v/0.3.0.md"
package: "@tapi-dev/sdk"
report_status: "published"
title: "@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.3.0"
---

# @tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 24 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:** 0.3.0
- **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.

This is a dangerous remote-code-execution capability with no automatic npm lifecycle trigger. The code is therefore suspicious rather than confirmed malicious.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-17T16:38:29.905Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-17T16:39:38.377Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 453 ms
- **AI review time:** 67510 ms
- **Total time:** 68472 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:** Named CLI operations can fetch and execute a remote service installer and dynamically execute workflow code. No automatic install-time trigger is present.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the service installer, workflow host, workflow development, or runner development CLI command.

- **Impact:** A compromised service endpoint or untrusted workflow can execute code with the invoking user's permissions.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js, dist/workflow-worker.js, dist/runner-dev.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-17T16:39:38.377Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote artifact installation and unsandboxed dynamic workflow import.

- **Rationale:** This is a dangerous remote-code-execution capability with no automatic npm lifecycle trigger. The code is therefore suspicious rather than confirmed malicious.

- **Files touched:** dist/cli.js, dist/workflow-worker.js, dist/runner-dev.js

- **Network endpoints:** d4xaf52nfwiok.cloudfront.net, determined-motivation-production.up.railway.app

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The explicit service-install command downloads a server-selected archive and runs its installer through PowerShell with execution-policy bypass., Workflow host mode writes supplied workflow source to a temporary module and dynamically imports it without a sandbox., Developer-runner setup starts a Python module from the selected workspace with inherited environment variables.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook; its only lifecycle-like hook is prepublishOnly., The risky paths are reached through named CLI commands rather than package installation or ordinary import.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0 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. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/auth.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 6
```

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/workflow-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/workflow-cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import { resolve, join } from "node:path";
L4: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/studio-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/studio-dev.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L174: if (process.platform === "win32") {
L175: return spawn(process.env.ComSpec || "cmd.exe", ["/d", "/s", "/c", `npm.cmd run dev -- --host ${DEV_HOST} --port ${port} --strictPort`], {
L176: cwd: uiRoot,
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

### 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: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/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:
import { mkdir, readFile, readdir, rename, rm, stat, statfs, unlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { emitKeypressEvents } from "node:readline";
raw.apiBaseUrl = requireOptionValue(args, ++index, arg);
raw.apiBaseUrl = arg.slice("--api-base-url=".length);
raw.apiBaseUrl = arg.slice("--server=".length);
const apiBaseUrl = normalizeHttpUrl(raw.apiBaseUrl
const downloadsBaseUrl = normalizeHttpUrl(envString("TAPI_DOWNLOADS_BASE_URL") ?? DEFAULT_DOWNLOADS_BASE_URL, "TAPI_DOWNLOADS_BASE_URL");
: `${downloadsBaseUrl.replace(/\/+$/, "")}/studio/channels/${channel}/latest.json`;
```

### 11. Critical: Reverse Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** dist/studio-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/studio-dev.js>)

Source matches reverse-shell style process and socket wiring.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createServer } from "node:net";
L3: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L22: const phases = [{ message: "SDK development launch requested" }];
L23: const workspaceRoot = findWorkspaceRoot(options.workspaceRoot || process.cwd());
L24: const uiRoot = join(workspaceRoot, "tapi_v3", "studio", "browser");
...
L39: const env = {
L40: ...process.env,
L41: TAPI_DEV_CONFIG: runner.context.configPath,
...
L49: phases.push({ message: "Vite UI is ready", detail: `${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}` });
L50: const launchTrace = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ phases }), "utf8").toString("base64url");
L51: const url = `http://${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}/?tapp=${encodeURIComponent(tappId)}&tapiDevLaunch=${launchTrace}`;
```

### 12. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/studio-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/studio-dev.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createServer } from "node:net";
L3: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L22: const phases = [{ message: "SDK development launch requested" }];
L23: const workspaceRoot = findWorkspaceRoot(options.workspaceRoot || process.cwd());
L24: const uiRoot = join(workspaceRoot, "tapi_v3", "studio", "browser");
...
L39: const env = {
L40: ...process.env,
L41: TAPI_DEV_CONFIG: runner.context.configPath,
...
L49: phases.push({ message: "Vite UI is ready", detail: `${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}` });
L50: const launchTrace = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ phases }), "utf8").toString("base64url");
L51: const url = `http://${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}/?tapp=${encodeURIComponent(tappId)}&tapiDevLaunch=${launchTrace}`;
```

### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/workflow-cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/workflow-cli.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/workflow-cli.js spawns dist/cli.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L3: import { resolve, join } from "node:path";
L4: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L9: export function workspaceArguments(args) {
L10: const root = resolve(option(args, "--workspace") || process.cwd());
L11: const workspace = loadWorkspace(root);
...
L104: throw new Error("Choose an existing session with --session; dev does not open or reset a browser");
L105: const job = await client.workflows.run({ sessionId, versionId: version.version_id, inputs: JSON.parse(option(expanded, "--input") || "{}") });
L106: await serveWorkflowJobs(options, { jobId: job.job_id, once: true });
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/studio-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/studio-dev.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: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js -> dist/studio-dev.js
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createServer } from "node:net";
L3: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
...
L22: const phases = [{ message: "SDK development launch requested" }];
L23: const workspaceRoot = findWorkspaceRoot(options.workspaceRoot || process.cwd());
L24: const uiRoot = join(workspaceRoot, "tapi_v3", "studio", "browser");
...
L39: const env = {
L40: ...process.env,
L41: TAPI_DEV_CONFIG: runner.context.configPath,
...
L49: phases.push({ message: "Vite UI is ready", detail: `${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}` });
L50: const launchTrace = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify({ phases }), "utf8").toString("base64url");
L51: const url = `http://${DEV_HOST}:${uiPort}/?tapp=${encodeURIC
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/cli.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 = @tapi-dev/sdk@0.2.6
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRhcGktZGV2L3Nkaw:0.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/studio-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/studio-dev.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 = @tapi-dev/sdk@0.2.6
matchedPath = dist/studio-dev.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRhcGktZGV2L3Nkaw:0.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/runner-dev.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/runner-dev.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 = @tapi-dev/sdk@0.2.6
matchedPath = dist/runner-dev.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRhcGktZGV2L3Nkaw:0.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/workflow-source.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/workflow-source.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 = @tapi-dev/sdk@0.2.6
matchedPath = dist/workflow-source.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRhcGktZGV2L3Nkaw:0.2.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/auth.js>)

Google API key in dist/auth.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 6
```

### 24. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tapi-dev/sdk@0.3.0/dist/cli.js>)

Google API key in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 27
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @inquirer/prompts ^7.10.1 (Dependency)
- cli-progress ^3.12.0 (Dependency)
- esbuild ^0.25.0 (Dependency)
- yoctocolors ^2.1.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @tapi-dev/sdk
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T16:28:05.661Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:26:39.675Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T18:43:17.380Z
- **Known versions:** 19
- **Latest version:** 0.3.12
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Tapi's JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for \*\*ServiceMaps, persistent browser sessions, code workflows, explicit recording, and read-only live view\*\*. Requires Node 20+.
- **Maintainers:** ill\_iterate
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 69
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 414,062 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tapi-dev/sdk/v/0.3.0>)