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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.39.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.39.0.md"
package: "@tekmidian/pai"
report_status: "published"
title: "@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.39.0"
---

# @tekmidian/pai@0.39.0 npm security report

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## 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:** 0.39.0
- **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.

The source shows an explicit CLI setup capability that writes Claude Code hook configuration, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. The flagged credential-redirection claim is unsupported: the observed token flow is prompted Todoist authentication to Todoist’s API, and no install lifecycle hook performs these changes.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-11T18:22:45.843Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-11T18:23:25.723Z
- **Download time:** 1259 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4999 ms
- **AI review time:** 33619 ms
- **Total time:** 39880 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 package can configure Claude Code hooks and update an Agent hook registration through explicit CLI setup commands. This is a guarded agent configuration capability; no concrete attack was identified.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the interactive setup or the worker install command.

- **Impact:** The configured hooks can run during later Claude Code events; no unconsented install-time configuration change was found.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-11T18:23:25.723Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI merges hook settings into the user's Claude settings and writes changes when needed.

- **Rationale:** The source shows an explicit CLI setup capability that writes Claude Code hook configuration, which warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. The flagged credential-redirection claim is unsupported: the observed token flow is prompted Todoist authentication to Todoist’s API, and no install lifecycle hook performs these changes.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/settings.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.todoist.com/api/v1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI’s interactive setup merges hooks and other settings into Claude’s user settings file., The separate worker install command can update an Agent hook registration; it is explicitly invoked by the user., Setup prompts before adopting a Todoist token and sends Todoist API calls to api.todoist.com., package.json defines prepublishOnly for building; it has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected credential flow is for Todoist and its service API, not an unofficial gateway., The inspected configuration changes are performed by explicit setup or worker install commands, not an npm lifecycle hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tekmidian/pai@0.39.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @tekmidian/pai@0.39.0 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/router-DcHKnEPa.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/router-DcHKnEPa.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import { connect } from "node:net";
L3: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L4:
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3788: ],
L3789: shell: true
L3790: });
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L142: try {
L143: new Function("");
L144: return true;
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/build-docs.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/scripts/build-docs.mjs>)

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-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L25: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L26: import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
L27: import { createConnection } from "net";
L28: import { promisify } from "node:util";
...
L40: *   08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt   7 sessions
L41: *   /private/tmp/ops-webui                                          dead
L42: *   /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-…            dead
...
L268: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) {
L269: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects");
L270: if (!existsSync(claudeProjects)) return [];
...
L422: console.error(err(`Invalid type "${type}". Valid: ${validTypes.join(", ")}`));
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

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/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs:
import { appendFileSync, chmodSync, copyFileSync, createReadStream, existsSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, readlinkSync, realpathSync, renameSync, statSync, s...
import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
*   08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/cool-haibt      1 session
*   08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt   7 sessions
fragment: `${sep}.claude${sep}worktrees${sep}`,
writeFileSync(join(targetPath, "Notes", "MEMORY.md"), memoryContent, "utf-8");
const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects");
writeFileSync(configPath, JSON.strin
```

### 12. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/hooks/capture-session-summary.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/hooks/capture-session-summary.mjs>)

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
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

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
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

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-DXBwJV7h.mjs spawns dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L24: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L25: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L26: import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
L27: import { createConnection } from "net";
L28: import { promisify } from "node:util";
...
L40: *   08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt   7 sessions
L41: *   /private/tmp/ops-webui                                          dead
L42: *   /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-…            dead
...
L268: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) {
L269: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects"
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/program-DXBwJV7h.mjs>)

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-DXBwJV7h.mjs
L24: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L25: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L26: import { createInterface } from "node:readline";
L27: import { createConnection } from "net";
L28: import { promisify } from "node:util";
...
L40: *   08 - Others/MDF/Infrastruktur/.claude/worktrees/strange-haibt   7 sessions
L41: *   /private/tmp/ops-webui                                          dead
L42: *   /private/tmp/claude-501/-Users-…-AIBroker/aae854c6-…            dead
...
L268: function findProjectNotesDirs(project) {
L269: const claudeProjects = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects");
L270: if (!existsSync(claudeProjects)) return [];
.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** tab-color-command.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/tab-color-command.sh>)

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]
```

### 19. 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.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/providers-FYkZjn\_C.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.39.0/dist/providers-FYkZjn_C.mjs%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

## 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:** 0.39.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T15:54:48.958Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-01T11:16:52.230Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T03:05:07.883Z
- **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:** 322
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,915,742 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.39.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mnott/PAI>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mnott/PAI/issues>)
