--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.36.2" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.36.2.md" package: "@tekmidian/pai" report_status: "published" title: "@tekmidian/pai@0.36.2 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "0.36.2" --- # @tekmidian/pai@0.36.2 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse - **Selected version:** 0.36.2 - **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. Source review found an interactive, consent-gated agent configuration capability and no install-time trigger or concrete attack behavior. This warrants a warning under the agent capability policy, not a malicious verdict. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-11T18:21:29.909Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-11T18:22:35.340Z - **Download time:** 760 ms - **Static scan time:** 3828 ms - **AI review time:** 60840 ms - **Total time:** 65431 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:** The interactive setup command can add PAI hooks and settings to the user's Claude configuration after the user confirms. No unconsented attack surface was established. - **Trigger:** The user runs the package setup command and confirms the settings patch. - **Impact:** The configuration enables PAI hooks in later Claude sessions; the inspected flow asks before making this change. - **Evidence paths:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-11T18:22:35.340Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The program merges missing hook registrations and other settings into ~/.claude/settings.json. - **Rationale:** Source review found an interactive, consent-gated agent configuration capability and no install-time trigger or concrete attack behavior. This warrants a warning under the agent capability policy, not a malicious verdict. - **Files touched:** ~/.claude/settings.json ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 88.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** The flagged hook files contain package functionality for reading project and session data, storing local notes, or communicating with the local daemon; their inspected target locations do not establish an attack., package.json defines only a prepublishOnly lifecycle script, which runs the build., The setup command asks before patching Claude settings with PAI hooks and other settings., After setup consent, the program merges hook registrations into Claude settings when values are missing. - **Evidence against:** No consumer-install lifecycle hook was found in package.json., The setup prompt permits skipping the settings patch; the inspected source does not establish unconsented control-surface mutation. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @tekmidian/pai@0.36.2. - Review the evidence and your use of @tekmidian/pai@0.36.2 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: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/context-handover-cache-PtNvj\_8D.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L636: } L637: const { spawn } = await import("node:child_process"); L638: return new Promise((resolve) => { ``` ### 4. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references shell execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L3786: ], L3787: shell: true L3788: }); ``` ### 5. Low: Eval - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 45.0% - **Path:** dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L140: try { L141: new Function(""); L142: return true; ``` ### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** scripts/build-docs.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L335: L336: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(PROGRAM_MJS).href); L337: if (typeof mod.buildProgram !== "function") { ``` ### 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. Medium: Install Persistence - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L22: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"; L23: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L24: import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; L25: import { createConnection } from "net"; L26: import { promisify } from "node:util"; ... L38: * 08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt 7 sessions L39: * /private/tmp/ops-webui dead L40: * /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-… dead ... L266: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) { L267: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects"); L268: if (!existsSync(claudeProjects)) return []; ... L420: console.error(err(`Invalid type "${type}". Valid: ${validTypes.join(", ")}`)); ``` ### 10. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 11. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/hooks/capture-session-summary.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path: rt { writefilesync, mkdirsync, existssync as existssync2, readfilesync as readfilesync2, readdirsync } from "fs"; import { join as join2 } from "path"; import { homedir } from "os"; import { resolve, join } from "path"; import { existssync, readfilesync } from "fs"; function loadenvfile() { const possiblepaths = [ resolve(process.env.pai_dir || "", ".env"), resolve(homedir(), ".claude", ".env") ]; for (const envpath of possiblepaths) { if (existssync(envpath)) { try { const content = readfilesync(envpath, "utf-8"); for (const line of content.split("\n")) { const trimmed = line.trim(); if (!trimmed || trimmed ``` ### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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. l.template.md"); if (!existssync(templatepath)) { console.log(c.warn("skill template not found: " + templatepath)); console.log(c.dim(" skipping pai skill installation.")); return false; } const skilldir = join(homedir(), ".claude", "skills", "pai"); const skillfile = join(skilldir, "skill.md"); if (existssync(skillfile)) { const content = readfilesync(skillfile, "utf-8"); const isgenerated = content.includes("generated by pai setup"); if (isgenerated) console.log(c.dim(" found existing pai-generated skill.md.")); else { console.log(c.yellow(" found existing skill.md (not pai-generated).")); console.log(c.dim(" a backup will be created before overwri ``` ### 13. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 72.0% - **Path:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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/program-C-fUghPv.mjs spawns dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution. L22: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"; L23: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L24: import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; L25: import { createConnection } from "net"; L26: import { promisify } from "node:util"; ... L38: * 08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt 7 sessions L39: * /private/tmp/ops-webui dead L40: * /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-… dead ... L266: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) { L267: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects" ``` ### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs - **Public source:** [View source]() A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli/index.mjs -> dist/program-C-fUghPv.mjs L22: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"; L23: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L24: import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; L25: import { createConnection } from "net"; L26: import { promisify } from "node:util"; ... L38: * 08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt 7 sessions L39: * /private/tmp/ops-webui dead L40: * /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-… dead ... L266: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) { L267: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects"); L268: if (!existsSync(claudeProjects)) return []; . ``` ### 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: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** tab-color-command.sh - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```shell path = tab-color-command.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 860 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 18. 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. ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly - **Dependencies:** 6 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 7 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6 ### Published dependency entries - @huggingface/transformers ^3.8.1 (Dependency) - @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency) - better-sqlite3 ^12.6.2 (Dependency) - chalk ^5.6.2 (Dependency) - commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency) - pg ^8.13.3 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @tekmidian/pai - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.36.2 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-17T07:34:25.013Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-01T11:16:52.230Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T02:25:06.675Z - **Known versions:** 64 - **Latest version:** 1.0.10 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** PAI Knowledge OS — Personal AI Infrastructure with federated memory and project management - **Author:** Matthias Nott - **Maintainers:** tekmidian - **Keywords:** ai, knowledge-os, personal-ai, mcp, claude, memory, project-management, cli - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 301 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,530,777 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Issues]()