---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tscircuit/cli/v/0.1.1940"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tscircuit/cli/v/0.1.1940.md"
package: "@tscircuit/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.1940"
---

# @tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940 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:** 0.1.1940
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. The explicit \`tsci init\` command can download and install tscircuit AI skills into project-local Claude and agent skill directories. This is a first-party agent-extension setup, not install-time execution.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-15T18:54:45.677Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-15T18:55:47.242Z
- **Download time:** 1275 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1568 ms
- **AI review time:** 58721 ms
- **Total time:** 61565 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** The explicit \`tsci init\` command can download and install tscircuit AI skills into project-local Claude and agent skill directories. This is a first-party agent-extension setup, not install-time execution.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`tsci init\` (with confirmation unless \`--yes\` is supplied).

- **Impact:** Downloaded instructions can influence AI agents that load project skills.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, cli/entrypoint.js, dist/cli/main.js, dist/cli/build/build.worker.js, dist/cli/snapshot/snapshot.worker.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-15T18:55:47.242Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote first-party skill download and project-local agent-directory writes.

- **Rationale:** This is an explicit, first-party AI-agent extension setup with remote content, which warrants a warning under the stated policy. No concrete malicious chain or unconsented install-time broad control-surface mutation was found.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills/tscircuit, .agents/skills/tscircuit

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.github.com/repos/tscircuit/skill/contents

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** \`tsci init\` installs downloaded skills into Claude and Codex-compatible project skill directories., Skill content is fetched from the tscircuit GitHub repository and written into those directories.

- **Evidence against:** No npm preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook is declared., The mutation is reached only through the explicit \`init\` command; interactive mode asks for confirmation., The CLI entrypoint only selects Bun/tsx and launches the packaged CLI.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/build/build.worker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/dist/cli/build/build.worker.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5328: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L5329: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L5330: const validate = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/snapshot/snapshot.worker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/dist/cli/snapshot/snapshot.worker.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L46: var __esm = (fn, res) => () => (fn && (res = fn(fn = 0)), res);
L47: var __require = /* @__PURE__ */ createRequire(import.meta.url);
L48:
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/snapshot/snapshot.worker.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/dist/cli/snapshot/snapshot.worker.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L76: var pathModule = __require("path");
L77: var isWindows = process.platform === "win32";
L78: var fs2 = __require("fs");
L79: var DEBUG = process.env.NODE_DEBUG && /fs/.test(process.env.NODE_DEBUG);
L80: function rethrow() {
...
L359: pre: str.slice(0, r[0]),
L360: body: str.slice(r[0] + a.length, r[1]),
L361: post: str.slice(r[1] + b.length)
...
L413: function numeric(str) {
L414: return parseInt(str, 10) == str ? parseInt(str, 10) : str.charCodeAt(0);
L415: }
...
L1207: self.changedCwd = false;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 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: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/main.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/dist/cli/main.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli/main.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 26161608
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/main.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/dist/cli/main.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/cli/main.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 26161608
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. 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.

### 13. Medium: Git Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package manifest contains a git dependency.

### 14. Medium: Remote Tarball Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tscircuit/cli@0.1.1940/package.json>)

Package manifest contains a dependency pinned to a remote tarball URL.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
Remote tarball dependency specs: @tscircuit/check-shorts@https://jscdn.tscircuit.com/@tscircuit/check-shorts/0.0.19.tgz
```

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 2
- **Development dependencies:** 80
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- circuit-json ^0.0.464 (PeerDependency)
- tscircuit \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @tscircuit/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.1940
- **Version published:** 2026-08-15T18:48:21.718Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:57:39.320Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-17T21:05:09.910Z
- **Known versions:** 143
- **Latest version:** 0.1.1950
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A CLI for developing, managing and publishing tscircuit code (the "npm for tscircuit") \`npm install -g tscircuit\`
- **Maintainers:** seveibar
- **Artifact files:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 41,774,277 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tscircuit/cli/v/0.1.1940>)
