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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibgrate/cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibgrate/cli/v/2026.806.2.md"
package: "@vibgrate/cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2026.806.2"
---

# @vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 2026.806.2
- **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.

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-06T14:17:55.037Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-06T14:18:52.760Z
- **Download time:** 758 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4926 ms
- **AI review time:** 52037 ms
- **Total time:** 57723 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 explicit \`vg install\` command modifies project AI-agent configuration and instruction files. Its postinstall hook does not perform that setup.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`vg install\` with selected assistants or \`--all\`/\`--detect\`.

- **Impact:** Can influence configured AI assistants and register \`vg serve\` in the project.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/cli.js, dist/chunk-ZPPDKHGL.js, dist/chunk-QDKFGLI3.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-06T14:18:52.760Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Explicit AI-agent skill, MCP, and instruction-file installation.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms explicit-user-command mutation of AI-agent control files, which warrants a warning under policy. The scanner's alleged install-time credential/command-output exfiltration is not supported: uploads require a user-invoked DSN-authenticated command.

- **Files touched:** .claude/skills/vg/SKILL.md, .mcp.json, .cursor/mcp.json, .vscode/mcp.json, AGENTS.md, .vibgrate/mcp-navigation.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** \`vg install\` writes skills, MCP entries, and agent instruction nudges., It targets many third-party AI assistant project config paths., Installed nudge text directs agents to prefer this package's MCP tools.

- **Evidence against:** \`postinstall\` only clears this package's model-health cache and checks a CLI-name conflict., No install-time network request or AI-agent config mutation was found., Cloud upload is an explicit DSN-authenticated CLI action, not covert exfiltration.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of @vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2 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/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-CBPDYYIH.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/chunk-CBPDYYIH.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: import * as os from 'os';
L8: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from 'child_process';
L9: import { Worker } from 'worker_threads';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-IS7VTH2Q.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/chunk-IS7VTH2Q.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L559: cwd: options.cwd,
L560: shell: true,
L561: encoding: "utf8",
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-KYRH3567.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/chunk-KYRH3567.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L193: try {
L194: const req = createRequire(path2.join(hostDir, "package.json"));
L195: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(req.resolve("fastembed")).href);
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositoryName, fetchScanPreflight, runCoreScan, loadConfig, prepareCompressedUpload, computeDriftS...
...
L58: import { Command, CommanderError, O
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositoryName, fetchScanPreflight, runCoreScan, loadConfig, prepareCompressedUpload, computeDriftS...
...
L58: import { Command, CommanderError, O
```

### 12. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositoryName, fetchScanPreflight, runCoreScan, loadConfig, prepareCompressedUpload, computeDriftS...
...
L58: import { Command, CommanderError, O
```

### 13. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L58: import { Command, CommanderError, Option } from 'commander';
L59: import { execSync, spawn, spawnSync, execFileSync } from 'child_process';
L60: import * as os from 'os';
...
L255: try {
L256: const raw = JSON.parse(fs11.readFileSync(verdictPath(dir), "utf8"));
L257: if (raw?.status !== "ok" && raw?.status !== "crashed") return null;
...
L4902: }
L4903: function listOpenAiModels(baseUrl, inject) {
L4904: if (inject) return inject(baseUrl);
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

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.js spawns dist/chunk-D2VEJHPC.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositor
```

### 15. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

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.js
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositoryName, fetchScanPreflight, runCoreScan, loadConfig, prepareCompressedUpload, computeD
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js
L28: import { recordCliCall, CLI_TOOL_ALIASES, savingsLedgerPath, clearSavings, readSavings, readUsage, readModelSavings, CAPSULE_RANKING_VERSION, SAVINGS_TOOLS, sanitizeClient } from '...
L29: import { CliError, ExitCode, driftCount, ASSISTANTS, detectAssistants, isAssistantInstalled, usageError, detectServeLaunch, installAssistant, writeNavigationConfig, uninstallAssist...
L30: import { resolveDsn, createWorkspaceDsn, writeStoredCredentials, credentialsPath, findGitRoot, ensureGitignored, gitignoreEntryForCredentials, clearStoredCredentials, parseDsn as p...
L31: import { writeDefaultConfig, parseDsn, detectVcs, computeRepoFingerprint, resolveRepositoryName, fetchScanPreflight, runCoreScan, loadConfig, prepareCo
```

### 17. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 40.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 19. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 21. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** grammars/tree-sitter-go.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/grammars/tree-sitter-go.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = grammars/tree-sitter-go.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 235957
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. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@vibgrate/cli@2026.806.2/dist/cli.js>)

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 = @vibgrate/cli@2026.806.1
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpYmdyYXRlL2NsaQ:2026.806.1
similarity = 0.933
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 20
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 21

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency)
- @noble/hashes ^2.2.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^15.0.0 (Dependency)
- fast-xml-parser ^5.10.1 (Dependency)
- gpt-tokenizer ^3.0.0 (Dependency)
- graphology ^0.26.0 (Dependency)
- graphology-communities-louvain ^2.0.2 (Dependency)
- graphology-metrics ^2.4.0 (Dependency)
- graphology-shortest-path ^2.1.0 (Dependency)
- graphology-traversal ^0.3.1 (Dependency)
- ignore ^7.0.6 (Dependency)
- msgpackr ^2.0.4 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.8.5 (Dependency)
- smol-toml ^1.7.1 (Dependency)
- tinypool ^2.1.0 (Dependency)
- tree-sitter-wasms ^0.1.13 (Dependency)
- typescript ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter 0.25.10 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.3 (Dependency)
- fastembed ^2.1.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @vibgrate/cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2026.806.2
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T12:49:45.643Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:20:53.137Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-06T12:27:01.383Z
- **Known versions:** 41
- **Latest version:** 2026.1006.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** vg — local codebase intelligence CLI + MCP server for AI coding agents: deterministic code graph, drift reporting, and version-correct library docs (Apache-2.0)
- **Author:** Vibgrate
- **Maintainers:** vibgrate-ops
- **Keywords:** code-graph, codebase-intelligence, ast, tree-sitter, mcp, ai-agents, drift, deterministic, impact-analysis, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 215
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 54,716,781 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@vibgrate/cli/v/2026.806.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/vibgrate/cli>)
- [Homepage](<https://vibgrate.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/vibgrate/cli/issues>)
