---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tsuga/cli/v/1.61.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tsuga/cli/v/1.61.0.md"
package: "@tsuga/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@tsuga/cli@1.61.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.61.0"
---

# @tsuga/cli@1.61.0 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:** 1.61.0
- **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 manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the credential path is constrained to approved API hosts or loopback. The explicit plugin setup enables automatic updates by default, so this is a warning-level agent extension lifecycle risk rather than a confirmed attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-15T07:50:32.612Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-15T07:51:37.007Z
- **Download time:** 772 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2132 ms
- **AI review time:** 61489 ms
- **Total time:** 64395 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:** An explicit Claude plugin-install command installs the Tsuga plugin and enables automatic updates in the user's Claude settings. This is a guarded agent extension lifecycle risk; no concrete attack was identified.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the CLI's install plugin command for Claude Code.

- **Impact:** Future plugin updates may change the extension loaded by Claude Code.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-15T07:51:37.007Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The command installs the Tsuga plugin and writes its marketplace entry with automatic updates enabled by default; the user can disable that setting.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the credential path is constrained to approved API hosts or loopback. The explicit plugin setup enables automatic updates by default, so this is a warning-level agent extension lifecycle risk rather than a confirmed attack.

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The manifest exposes a CLI and lists no install lifecycle hook., The API URL validator restricts credentials to HTTPS on approved hosts or loopback., Login exchanges a browser authorization code with the resolved API and saves the session., The Claude plugin setup writes to the user's Claude settings file., That setup adds the Tsuga GitHub marketplace with automatic updates enabled., The plugin setup is an explicit CLI command; automatic updates default on and can be disabled.

- **Evidence against:** No credential theft or other confirmed attack was identified; the CLI's credential destination is constrained by its URL validator., The agent configuration change is tied to an explicit plugin-install command, rather than an npm install hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tsuga/cli@1.61.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @tsuga/cli@1.61.0 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_pat
severity = critical
line = 83
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.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/cli.js:
`,h)));r=r+T.substring(h)}}return na(m)?m:null}let a=qe(()=>i._tag==="Some"?sn(i.value):OG(e,{onSuccess:u,onFailure:la,onDone:p=>{if(i=fe(p),r.length>0){let m=r;return r="",o=!1,A(...
`)a-=1,u+=1;else if(m==="u"&&t[u+2]==="{"){let f=t.indexOf("}",u+3);parseInt(t.slice(u+3,f),16)>65535&&(a+=1),u=f}else u+=wle[m]??1}}let s=i===e.length;return s||o.push(e.slice(i))...
`,e),([t,r])=>[[t],r]),([t,r])=>[t,r],()=>[]))),([t,r])=>[t,r]),B3=(e,t=[])=>d(d($3(e),([r,o])=>d(Qw(o),([i,s])=>[[r,i],s])),([r,o])=>B3(o,[...t,r]),()=>[t,e]),mbe=e=>d(d(d(Qw(e),(...
`)}var Co=class e extends ze()("common-cli/OutputFormatter"){static layer=ss(e
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

GitHub personal access token in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_pat
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 10. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

GitHub OAuth access token in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_oauth
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 11. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

GitHub server-to-server token in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_server_token
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 12. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

GitHub fine-grained PAT in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = github_fine_grained
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 13. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

AWS access key ID in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 14. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

Google API key in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 83
```

### 15. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

RSA private key in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = private_key_rsa
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 16. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

npm access token in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = npm_token
severity = critical
line = 83
```

### 17. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

Stripe test secret key in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = stripe_test_secret
severity = high
line = 86
```

### 18. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

Twilio API key in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = twilio_api_key
severity = high
line = 86
```

### 19. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@tsuga/cli@1.61.0/dist/cli.js>)

Slack bot token in dist/cli.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = slack_bot_token
severity = critical
line = 86
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 18
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @tsuga/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.61.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-15T07:46:34.961Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-10T14:16:28.329Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T18:06:21.999Z
- **Known versions:** 103
- **Latest version:** 1.149.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Tsuga CLI - manage resources from the command line
- **Maintainers:** tsuga-dev
- **Keywords:** cli, dashboards, logs, metrics, monitoring, observability, traces, tsuga
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,174,149 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@tsuga/cli/v/1.61.0>)
- [Homepage](<https://tsuga.com/>)
