registry / AI-agent control-surface risk / @twing/cli / 1.3.1

@twing/cli@1.3.1

AI Security Review

scanned 11d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The package's postinstall mutates machine-wide configuration for several AI-agent harnesses when installed globally, without a separate consent gate for those integrations. This is unconsented lifecycle mutation of broad agent control surfaces, so it warrants blocking.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

Installing the package globally with npm, which sets npm_config_global to true.

Impact

The install changes global agent configuration so the harnesses load package-provided hooks and plugin code in later sessions.

Mechanism

The postinstall imports machine setup, which writes Claude resolver wiring and invokes the OpenCode and Codex hook installers without a separate agent-configuration consent step.

Policy narrative

A global npm installation activates postinstall.cjs, which proceeds based on npm's global-install setting. Machine setup then wires twing into multiple global agent configurations without a separate consent step for those changes, causing package-provided hook or plugin code to load in later sessions.

AI rationale

Evidence

package.jsonpostinstall.cjsdist/machine-setup.jsdist/resolve-hook.jsdist/codex-hooks.jsdist/opencode-plugin.jsdist/enforce-hooks.jsdist/init.js~/.claude/settings.json~/.config/opencode/plugins/twing.js~/.codex/config.toml

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI identified this as a dangerous AI-agent capability at 95.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for policy risk

package.json runs postinstall.cjs during installation.
The postinstall proceeds when npm reports a global install; that gate does not ask separately before wiring agent settings.
Machine setup writes Claude resolver wiring and installs OpenCode and Codex hooks.
The setup modifies machine-wide Claude, OpenCode, and Codex configuration, causing these harnesses to load twing hooks.
dist/enforce-hooks.js and dist/init.js describe repository setup paths; they do not gate the machine-wide postinstall behavior.

Evidence against

The postinstall exits for installs that are neither global nor passed --machine-setup.
The OpenCode installer leaves a same-named plugin alone when it is not recognized as twing's.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

Source & flagged code

7 flagged

package.jsonView file

Lines 9-38json

9 "bin": {

10 "twing": "./dist/index.js"

11 },

12 "main": "./dist/index.js",

13 "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",

14 "repository": {

15 "type": "git",

16 "url": "https://github.com/Twing-dev/twing-cli.git",

17 "directory": "packages/cli"

18 },

19 "files": [

20 "dist",

21 "postinstall.cjs",

22 "!dist/**/*.test.js",

23 "!dist/**/*.test.js.map",

24 "!dist/**/*.test.d.ts",

25 "!dist/**/*.test.d.ts.map"

26 ],

27 "scripts": {

28 "build": "tsc -b",

29 "postinstall": "node postinstall.cjs",

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg · L29

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg · L29

30 "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",

31 "test": "node --test dist/*.test.js dist/*/*.test.js"

32 },

33 "dependencies": {

34 "@twing/core": "^1.3.1",

35 "web-tree-sitter": "^0.26.12"

36 }

37}

dist/opencode-adapter.jsView file

Lines 1-32javascript

1/**

2 * OpenCode -> twing-hook adapter.

3 *

4 * OpenCode plugins run inside the long-lived OpenCode process, while the

5 * existing twing client contract is one JSON payload per short-lived hook

6 * process. Keeping the translation here means OpenCode shares the exact Go

7 * gate, auth recovery, daemon protocol, and target-file repo resolution

8 * Claude already uses instead of growing a second implementation.

9 *

10 * Copied verbatim to `~/.twing/opencode/adapter.mjs` by `opencode-plugin.ts`,

dist/test-support.jsView file

Lines 14-54javascript

14import * as fs from "node:fs";

15import * as os from "node:os";

16import * as path from

dist/machine-setup.jsView file

Lines 1-24javascript

1/**

2 * Machine wiring shared by the one-step install and `twing init --ghuser`.

3 *

4 * Both leave a machine in the same state: the resolver wired into

5 * `~/.claude/settings.json`, the OpenCode plugin installed, and nothing

6 * installed into `~/.twing/lib`. The coordinator picks the version, so the CLI,

Critical

Ai Agent Control Hijack

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

dist/machine-setup.jsView on unpkg · L4

7 * hook binary and daemon arrive lazily the first time a session opens a repo

8 * that uses twing -- and version recovery keeps them current from then on.

dist/codex-hooks.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 9

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

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

dist/codex-hooks.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/codex-hooks.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @twing/cli@0.2.26 matchedIdentity = npm:QHR3aW5nL2NsaQ:0.2.26 similarity = 0.541 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

High

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/codex-hooks.jsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

7 flagged · loading source

package.jsonView file

•scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.cjs

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg

•scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.cjs

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg

dist/opencode-adapter.jsView file

12*/ L13: import { spawn } from "node:child_process"; L14: import * as fs from "node:fs";

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/opencode-adapter.jsView on unpkg · L12

Findings

1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low

CriticalAi Agent Control Hijackdist/machine-setup.js

HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json

HighChild Processdist/opencode-adapter.js

HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/test-support.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/codex-hooks.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/codex-hooks.js

MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

LowHigh Entropy Strings

Low

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @twing/cli@1.3.1.

See all versions of @twing/cli for other recorded verdicts.

Avoid installing @twing/cli@1.3.1. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

Evidence last updated: 2026-10-11 21:26:15.129Z (UTC).

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