---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.0.md"
package: "@viraatdas/rudder"
report_status: "published"
title: "@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "3.3.0"
---

# @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 28 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 3.3.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected credential paths use the corresponding Rudder cloud account comparison and ChatGPT quota endpoint, and the agent-related excerpts do not establish unauthorized control-surface changes. The postinstall hook is present, but the inspected evidence does not establish malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T04:59:43.410Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T05:05:20.576Z
- **Download time:** 7445 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1990 ms
- **AI review time:** 327729 ms
- **Total time:** 337166 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:** No concrete attack was identified in the inspected source. The observed credential handling supports cloud account comparison and usage retrieval through the corresponding service flows.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the cloud doctor or attaches a workspace, or the application fetches usage quota.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior supports account status and quota features; it does not establish credential disclosure to an unrelated recipient or unauthorized agent configuration changes.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T05:05:20.576Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The cloud flow compares local account identities with cloud-held credential status. The quota flow reads the local Codex access token and sends it to the ChatGPT usage endpoint.

- **Rationale:** The inspected credential paths use the corresponding Rudder cloud account comparison and ChatGPT quota endpoint, and the agent-related excerpts do not establish unauthorized control-surface changes. The postinstall hook is present, but the inspected evidence does not establish malicious behavior.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/cloud.js, dist/usage.js, dist/board/daemon.js, dist/handoff.js, dist/models.js, dist/util.js, dist/task-summary.js, dist/improve/state.js, dist/improve/schedule.js, dist/improve/collect.js, dist/backends.js, dist/run-manager.js, dist/version-check.js, dist/feedback.js, dist/jj-binary.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/wham/usage

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json declares a postinstall hook that runs the package’s Jujutsu setup script., The inspected cloud code reads local account identifiers and compares them with credentials already held by the Rudder cloud; the inspected caller is the explicit cloud doctor or workspace attach flow., The usage code reads the Codex access token and sends it to ChatGPT’s usage endpoint to retrieve quota data., The agent-related locations inspected read Claude conversation metadata, write credentials into a staged Claude directory, or read a local Codex model cache; those excerpts do not show a foreign agent-control mutation., The remaining required source paths inspected show local run management, schedule and collection modules, task-summary redaction, feedback, version checking, and the Jujutsu installer entrypoint; no concrete attack was established.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0 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/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/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/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/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. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/util.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/util.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
...
L7: import readline from "node:readline/promises";
L8: import { stdin as input, stdout as output } from "node:process";
L9: const DEFAULT_PATH = [
...
L24: export function rudderHome() {
L25: return path.resolve(process.env.RUDDER_HOME?.trim() || path.join(os.homedir(), ".rudder"));
L26: }
...
L65: const raw = await fsp.readFile(filePath, "utf8");
L66: return JSON.parse(raw);
L67: }
...
L160: const TOOL_INSTALL_HINTS = {
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/improve/schedule.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/improve/schedule.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: function plistPath() {
L8: return path.join(os.homedir(), "Library", "LaunchAgents", `${LAUNCHD_LABEL}.plist`);
L9: }
...
L49: export async function scheduleCommand(action) {
L50: if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
L51: throw new Error("rudder improve schedule currently supports macOS (launchd) only; run `rudder improve run` from cron/systemd on other platforms.");
...
L59: // Re-bootstrap idempotently: boot out any prior registration first.
L60: await runCommand("launchctl", ["bootout", `gui/${uid}/${LAUNCHD_LABEL}`], { allowFailure: true });
L61: const bootstrap = await runCommand("launchctl", ["bootstrap", `gui/${uid}`, plistPath()], {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cloud.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/cloud.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/cloud.js:
"~/.claude/.credentials.json",
"~/.claude/settings.json",
"~/.claude/hooks",
"~/.claude/CLAUDE.md",
"~/.claude.json",
"~/.codex/auth.json",
"~/.codex/config.toml",
"~/.codex/AGENTS.md",
```

### 10. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/package.json>)

Install-time source downloads a native archive from a fixed external host without transport verification, extracts it, and installs an executable payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
Install-time code downloads an unverified remote native archive, stages it locally, activates an executable path, and exposes it to process execution.
L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createHash, randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
...
L10: // ~/.rudder/bin/jj/<version>/ and puts that directory on PATH for itself and
L11: // everything it starts: the native dashboard, workers and agents all inherit
L12: // it. A jj the user installed (brew, cargo, a distro package) always wins.
...
L15: // (`git worktree add --orphan`), and stock macOS and Debian 12 ship git 2.39,
L16: // so every isolated agent would fail to start on exactly the machines that have
L17: // nothing installed. 0.40.0 is also what the cloud worker
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/improve/schedule.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/improve/schedule.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js -> dist/main.js -> dist/improve/index.js -> dist/improve/schedule.js
L7: function plistPath() {
L8: return path.join(os.homedir(), "Library", "LaunchAgents", `${LAUNCHD_LABEL}.plist`);
L9: }
...
L49: export async function scheduleCommand(action) {
L50: if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
L51: throw new Error("rudder improve schedule currently supports macOS (launchd) only; run `rudder improve run` from cron/systemd on other platforms.");
...
L59: // Re-bootstrap idempotently: boot out any prior registration first.
L60: await runCommand("launchctl", ["bootout", `gui/${uid}/${LAUNCHD_LABEL}`], { allowFailure: true });
L61: const bootstrap = await runCommand("launchctl", ["bootstrap", `gui/${uid}`, plistPath()], {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/native/darwin-x64/rudder-native
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/native/darwin-x64/rudder-native>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/native/darwin-x64/rudder-native
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 5153864
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/improve/collect.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/improve/collect.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 7
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/usage.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/usage.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/usage.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/util.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/util.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/util.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/backends.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/backends.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/backends.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/board/daemon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/board/daemon.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/board/daemon.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/handoff.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/handoff.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/handoff.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/run-manager.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/run-manager.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/run-manager.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/task-summary.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/task-summary.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/task-summary.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/version-check.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/version-check.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/version-check.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/feedback.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/feedback.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/feedback.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/improve/state.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/improve/state.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/improve/state.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/jj-binary.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/jj-binary.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/jj-binary.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/models.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.0/dist/models.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @viraatdas/rudder@3.1.22
matchedPath = dist/models.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QHZpcmFhdGRhcy9ydWRkZXI:3.1.22
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- @xterm/headless ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @viraatdas/rudder
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.3.0
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-18T04:56:49.896Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T18:27:55.536Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T00:49:32.505Z
- **Known versions:** 98
- **Latest version:** 3.9.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A TUI for managing coding agents: run Claude Code, Codex and opencode side by side, each in its own isolated jj workspace.
- **Maintainers:** viraatdas
- **Keywords:** tui, coding-agents, claude-code, codex, opencode, ai-agents, jujutsu, terminal, cli
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 178
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,593,592 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/viraatdas/rudder>)
- [Homepage](<https://rudder.viraat.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/viraatdas/rudder/issues>)
