---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.67.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.67.0.md"
package: "@tekmidian/pai"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.67.0"
---

# @tekmidian/pai@0.67.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 24 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:** 0.67.0
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected source does not confirm an attack, and the reported credential redirection finding was not resolved from the available targeted excerpts. Manual review is appropriate while that CLI behavior remains unverified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 56.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T05:09:33.516Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T05:11:43.810Z
- **Download time:** 16956 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8706 ms
- **AI review time:** 104632 ms
- **Total time:** 130294 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 excerpts, but the reported credential redirection behavior in the large CLI bundle remains unresolved.

- **Trigger:** The CLI or daemon may be invoked through its package entrypoints; the unresolved report concerns runtime behavior.

- **Impact:** The available source excerpts do not establish credential disclosure or another concrete malicious effect.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T05:11:43.810Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected daemon excerpts show local memory operations and IPC handling. They do not resolve whether another CLI path redirects credentials.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source does not confirm an attack, and the reported credential redirection finding was not resolved from the available targeted excerpts. Manual review is appropriate while that CLI behavior remains unverified.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 56.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest defines no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; its prepublishOnly command builds and runs a gated worker check., The flagged daemon paths show memory search results being saved, IPC tool dispatch, request handling, and startup of local daemon services., The inspected command-line audit code examines endpoint overrides on running sessions; this excerpt does not establish credential forwarding., The embedding path downloads a model from Hugging Face and checks its size and checksum before importing it locally., The full behavior of the large CLI bundle and the scanner-reported credential redirection finding remains unresolved by these inspected excerpts.

- **Evidence against:** The package has user-facing CLI and daemon entrypoints and network-enabled runtime features, but the inspected snippets do not prove malicious behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tekmidian/pai@0.67.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @tekmidian/pai@0.67.0 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/embedding-gate-Cc5UQcO7.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/embedding-gate-Cc5UQcO7.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: import { join } from "node:path";
L6: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L7: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4163: summary: "Wait for a background job to finish",
L4164: description: "Waits at most --max seconds (default 110, limit 590; over ~110 s needs the Bash tool timeout raised, which the PAI hook does automatically) for a process id. Exit 0: ...
L4165: args: [{
```

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

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L33: import chalk, { Chalk } from "chalk";
L34: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L35: import { parse, parseDocument } from "yaml";
L36: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L37: import http from "node:http";
L38: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L49: *
L50: * Node's stdout/stderr are ASYNCHRONOUS when they point at a pipe (and
L51: * synchronous when they point at a TTY or a regular file). `process.exit()`
...
L159: */
L160: function colorEnabled(env = process.env, isTTY = !!process.stdout.isTTY) {
L161: if (env.NO_COLOR !== void 0 && env.NO_COLOR !== "") return false;
```

### 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/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L33: import chalk, { Chalk } from "chalk";
L34: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L35: import { parse, parseDocument } from "yaml";
L36: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L37: import http from "node:http";
L38: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L49: *
L50: * Node's stdout/stderr are ASYNCHRONOUS when they point at a pipe (and
L51: * synchronous when they point at a TTY or a regular file). `process.exit()`
...
L159: */
L160: function colorEnabled(env = process.env, isTTY = !!process.stdout.isTTY) {
L161: if (env.NO_COLOR !== void 0 && env.NO_COLOR !== "") return false;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.mjs>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution with blocking evidence.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5930: try {
L5931: return (await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/v1/models`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(3e3) })).ok;
L5932: } catch {
...
L5941: const [cmd, ...args] = plan.argv;
L5942: const child = spawn(cmd, args, {
L5943: env: {
L5944: ...process.env,
L5945: ...plan.env
```

### 12. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/embedding-gate-Cc5UQcO7.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/embedding-gate-Cc5UQcO7.mjs>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L5: import { join } from "node:path";
L6: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L7: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
...
L64: const OLLAMA_DEFAULT_MODEL = "arctic-embed-m-v1.5-f16";
L65: const OLLAMA_DEFAULT_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:11434";
L66: const TOKENIZER_MODEL = "Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m-v1.5";
...
L109: };
L110: names = (await r.json()).models?.map((m) => m.name) ?? [];
L111: } catch {
...
L128: const f = deps.fetch ?? fetch;
L129: const log = deps.log ?? ((m) => process.stderr.write(`${m}\n`));
L130: const getTok = deps.tokenizer ?? loadTokenizer;
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.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/cli/index.mjs:
import { appendFileSync, chmodSync, closeSync, copyFileSync, cpSync, createReadStream, existsSync, fstatSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readFileSync, readSync, readdirSync, r...
import { createInterface, emitKeypressEvents } from "node:readline";
writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + "\n");
* Session names live in Claude's clc registry (~/.claude/session.json):
const clcRegistryPath = (home = homedir()) => join(home, ".claude", "session.json");
writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + "\n");
const sessionsDir = join(homedir(), ".claude", "projects", encodedDir, "sessions");
/** Notes dir
```

### 14. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/hooks/cleanup-session-files.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/hooks/cleanup-session-files.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:
replace(/\$home/g, homedir2());
            value = value.replace(/^~(?=\/|$)/, homedir2());
            if (process.env[key] === void 0) {
              process.env[key] = value;
            }
          }
        }
        break;
      } catch {
      }
    }
  }
}
loadenvfile();
function defaultadapterdir() {
  return resolve(homedir2(), ".claude");
}
function suppressdeprecationnotices() {
  if (process.env.pai_quiet_notices === "1") return true;
  const idx = process.argv.indexof("--output-format");
  return idx !== -1 && process.argv[idx + 1] === "json";
}
function warnpaidirdeprecatedonce(message) {
  const g = globalthis;
  if (g.__paidirnoticeprinted || suppressdeprecationnotices()) return;
```

### 15. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.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.
dir(), "pai-sk[redacted]");
	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 bef
```

### 16. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.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/cli/index.mjs spawns dist/daemon-mcp/index.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L33: import chalk, { Chalk } from "chalk";
L34: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L35: import { parse, parseDocument } from "yaml";
L36: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L37: import http from "node:http";
L38: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L49: *
L50: * Node's stdout/stderr are ASYNCHRONOUS when they point at a pipe (and
L51: * synchronous when they point at a TTY or a regular file). `process.exit()`
...
L159: */
L160: function colorEnabled(env = process.env, isTTY = !!process.stdout.isTTY) {
L161: if (env.NO_COLOR !== void 0 && env.NO_COLOR !== "") retu
```

### 17. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.mjs>)

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/index.mjs
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 18. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/cli/index.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
L33: import chalk, { Chalk } from "chalk";
L34: import { execFile, execFileSync, execSync, spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L35: import { parse, parseDocument } from "yaml";
L36: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L37: import http from "node:http";
L38: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
...
L49: *
L50: * Node's stdout/stderr are ASYNCHRONOUS when they point at a pipe (and
L51: * synchronous when they point at a TTY or a regular file). `process.exit()`
...
L159: */
L160: function colorEnabled(env = process.env, isTTY = !!process.stdout.isTTY) {
L161: if (env.NO_COLOR !== void 0 && env.NO_COLOR !== "") return false;
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 21. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** tab-color-command.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/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]
```

### 22. 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.

### 23. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/tool-errors-CC8AD53a.mjs\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/tool-errors-CC8AD53a.mjs%23virtual%3Astring-array%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 = 2
```

### 24. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/hooks/worker-pool-host.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tekmidian/pai@0.67.0/dist/hooks/worker-pool-host.mjs>)

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 = @tekmidian/pai@0.66.48
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRla21pZGlhbi9wYWk:0.66.48
similarity = 0.508
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @huggingface/transformers ^3.8.1 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.6.2 (Dependency)
- js-tiktoken ^1.0.21 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.13.3 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @tekmidian/pai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.67.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-18T05:06:52.603Z
- **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:** 411
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 36,476,804 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tekmidian/pai/v/0.67.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/mnott/PAI>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/mnott/PAI/issues>)