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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@taskless/cli-nightly/v/0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@taskless/cli-nightly/v/0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f.md"
package: "@taskless/cli-nightly"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f"
---

# @taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected CLI source uses a Taskless API default that can be overridden by caller configuration, and the manifest has no npm install hook. Prepared evidence marks optional platform-specific packages unresolved, so their behavior cannot be cleared from source; this warrants manual review without establishing an attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 71.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-21T09:12:16.515Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-21T09:15:12.199Z
- **Download time:** 761 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3834 ms
- **AI review time:** 171088 ms
- **Total time:** 175684 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:** No attack was confirmed in the inspected package source. Review remains unresolved because source for optional platform-specific dependencies was unavailable.

- **Trigger:** No malicious trigger was established; the unresolved dependency behavior would depend on installing or using a matching platform package.

- **Impact:** No concrete attack impact was established; unresolved dependency behavior prevents a clean conclusion.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-21T09:15:12.199Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The available evidence does not reveal what the unresolved platform-specific packages do.

- **Rationale:** The inspected CLI source uses a Taskless API default that can be overridden by caller configuration, and the manifest has no npm install hook. Prepared evidence marks optional platform-specific packages unresolved, so their behavior cannot be cleared from source; this warrants manual review without establishing an attack.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 71.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** package.json points to dist/index.js and declares tsx as its runtime dependency., dist/index.js reads the Taskless API URL from caller configuration or uses the Taskless service default., The inspected tsx manifest and loader identify a TypeScript runtime entrypoint., The prepared dependency evidence leaves optional platform-specific packages unresolved, so their behavior could not be assessed from source.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no npm install lifecycle hook., The inspected source does not establish credential theft or another concrete attack.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f.

- Review the evidence and your use of @taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: import { AsyncLocalStorage as Yg } from "node:async_hooks";
L11: import { execFile as Jt, spawn as pt } from "node:child_process";
L12: import { RULES_DIRECTORY as ee, TASKLESS_DIRECTORY as Bu, ENGINES as qe, ENGINE_LAYOUTS as Et, RULE_TESTS_DIRECTORY as me, isKnownEngine as Yt } from "./layout.js";
```

### 3. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f/dist/index.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/index.js:
import { createReadStream as Fg, globSync as ra, readdirSync as Cg, existsSync as Sn, readFileSync as Fu, rmSync as Cu, mkdtempSync as jg, writeFileSync as Pg } from "node:fs";
import { readFile as C, mkdir as K, writeFile as M, rm as ne, readdir as H, stat as we, mkdtemp as oa, copyFile as Du, glob as Mu, access as Uu, readlink as Vg, chmod as qg, rename...
import Jg, { createInterface as as } from "node:readline";
this.flushPromise = null, this.shutdownPromise = null, this.promiseQueue = new p0(), this._events = new E0(), this._isInitialized = !1, b0(t, "You must pass your PostHog project's ...
throw this.beginBackoff(
```

### 7. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f/dist/index.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/index.js spawns dist/recipes-Bqll_JIN.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L3: import { resolve as F, join as m, dirname as Q, relative as Ve, basename as qt, extname as Dg, isAbsolute as Pi, sep as ht, posix as $t } from "node:path";
L4: import A, { stdin as Mg, stdout as ju } from "node:process";
L5: import * as br from "node:tty";
...
L10: import { AsyncLocalStorage as Yg } from "node:async_hooks";
L11: import { execFile as Jt, spawn as pt } from "node:child_process";
L12: import { RULES_DIRECTORY as ee, TASKLESS_DIRECTORY as Bu, ENGINES as qe, ENGINE_LAYOUTS as Et, RULE_TESTS_DIRECTORY as me, isKnownEngine as Yt } from "./layout.js";
...
L458: platform: gy = ""
L459: } = typeof process > "u" ? {} : process, my = "NO_COL
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 9. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f/dist/index.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021055449x566b238
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRhc2tsZXNzL2NsaS1uaWdodGx5:0.13.3-20261021055449x566b238
similarity = 0.929
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Dependency Evidence
- **Category:** Dependency
- **Confidence:** 71.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@taskless/cli-nightly@0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f/package.json>)

package.json points to dist/index.js and declares tsx as its runtime dependency.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"type": "module",
  "module": "./dist/index.js",
  "exports": {
    ".": {
      "import": "./dist/index.js"
    },
    "./prompts": {
      "types": "./dist/prompts/index.d.ts",
      "import": "./dist/prompts.js"
    },
    "./layout":
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 13
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 21
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- tsx ^4.21.0 (Dependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-darwin-arm64 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-darwin-x64 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-linux-arm64-gnu 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-linux-x64-gnu 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-win32-arm64-msvc 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-win32-ia32-msvc 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @ast-grep/cli-win32-x64-msvc 0.51.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-darwin-arm64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-darwin-x64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-linux-arm64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-linux-x64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-win32-arm64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)
- @taskless/vale-win32-x64 3.24.0-20261005234241 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @taskless/cli-nightly
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-21T09:03:18.599Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-21T00:28:25.531Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T01:00:24.439Z
- **Known versions:** 134
- **Latest version:** 0.13.6-20261105005141x2614cf0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Nightly build of \[\`@taskless/cli\`\](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@taskless/cli) — the same source and the same build, published from an unreleased commit on \`main\`.
- **Maintainers:** jakobo
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.22.0
- **Artifact files:** 33
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,461,238 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@taskless/cli-nightly/v/0.13.3-20261021085748x8de568f>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/taskless/cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/taskless/cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/taskless/cli/issues>)
