---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@topolo/cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@topolo/cli/v/0.11.0.md"
package: "@topolo/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@topolo/cli@0.11.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.11.0"
---

# @topolo/cli@0.11.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 0.11.0
- **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.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. The package's install hook prompts an AI assistant to run a command that installs skills and MCP registrations into local agent hosts. No install-time configuration write or confirmed data export was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T04:42:52.600Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T04:44:11.421Z
- **Download time:** 502 ms
- **Static scan time:** 886 ms
- **AI review time:** 77432 ms
- **Total time:** 78821 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's install hook prompts an AI assistant to run a command that installs skills and MCP registrations into local agent hosts. No install-time configuration write or confirmed data export was identified.

- **Trigger:** An AI assistant follows the postinstall message and runs topolo setup.

- **Impact:** This can extend local AI-agent control surfaces with a package-provided MCP server after an installation prompt.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T04:44:11.421Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The setup command writes agent skill files and MCP-server configuration, defaulting to Claude and Codex plus detected hosts.

- **Rationale:** The package combines an install-time AI-directed onboarding prompt with a command that modifies local agent configuration. Because the mutation requires a subsequent CLI command and no exfiltration or automatic configuration write was found, a warning is appropriate rather than a block.

- **Files touched:** .codex/config.toml, .claude/skills/topolo/SKILL.md

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** The package runs a postinstall script., That script instructs an AI assistant to automatically run the setup command., The setup feature writes a bundled skill and registers an MCP server in agent configuration., Without target flags, setup includes Claude and Codex and may include detected hosts.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall script only writes its message to standard output; it does not invoke setup itself., Agent configuration changes occur through an explicit CLI setup command.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @topolo/cli@0.11.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @topolo/cli@0.11.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@topolo/cli@0.11.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@topolo/cli@0.11.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.mjs
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@topolo/cli@0.11.0/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 { createInterface } from "readline/promises";
headers.set("Authorization", `Bearer ${credential.accessToken}`);
"action_runtime_authorization_required",
"authorization_pending",
return "The current identity or resource context is not authorized. Review the structured details and published authorization contract.";
const apiBaseUrl = firstString(entry.apiBaseUrl, entry.api_base_url);
if (apiBaseUrl) return apiBaseUrl;
if (["authorization", "cookie", "set-cookie", "proxy-authorization", "x-api-key"].includes(header.toLowerCase())) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@topolo/cli@0.11.0/package.json>)

The package runs a postinstall script.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node postinstall.mjs",
    "build": "tsup",
    "dev": "tsup --wa
```

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

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- @topolo/mcp 0.12.0 (Dependency)
- @topolo/sdk 0.17.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @topolo/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.11.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T14:53:40.769Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-09T14:26:52.597Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T19:51:47.935Z
- **Known versions:** 49
- **Latest version:** 0.12.32
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Public command-line interface for Topolo customer organizations, developers, and agents.
- **Author:** Topolo
- **Maintainers:** ash-topolo
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 320,341 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@topolo/cli/v/0.11.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Topolo-io/TopoloCli>)
- [Homepage](<https://docs.topolo.app/guides/agents-and-automation>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Topolo-io/TopoloCli/issues>)
