---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.1.md"
package: "@viraatdas/rudder"
report_status: "published"
title: "@viraatdas/rudder@3.3.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "3.3.1"
---

# @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.1 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:** 3.3.1
- **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 lifecycle behavior is product-aligned setup, and credential handling is directed to intended provider endpoints or an explicitly used Rudder cloud vault. Static similarity hints did not establish malicious behavior in the source reviewed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-18T06:21:10.859Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-18T06:22:54.120Z
- **Download time:** 2297 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1986 ms
- **AI review time:** 98975 ms
- **Total time:** 103261 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 attack surface was identified in the inspected source. The install hook sets up Rudder’s workspace tool, while credential transfers are tied to explicit cloud use or interactive confirmation.

- **Trigger:** The npm postinstall hook runs during installation; other credential handling requires a Rudder cloud command or interactive cloud flow.

- **Impact:** No unconsented credential export, broad agent configuration change, or other concrete attack effect was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-18T06:22:54.120Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook installs a checksum-pinned jj release when no suitable copy exists. Quota checks use provider credentials with their provider endpoint, and cloud transfers target the Rudder vault after explicit action or confirmation.

- **Rationale:** The inspected lifecycle behavior is product-aligned setup, and credential handling is directed to intended provider endpoints or an explicitly used Rudder cloud vault. Static similarity hints did not establish malicious behavior in the source reviewed.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/jj-binary.js, dist/cloud.js, dist/usage.js, dist/board/daemon.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The postinstall sets up Rudder’s workspace tool only when needed; the downloaded release is versioned and checksum-pinned., Codex quota checks send the saved access token to ChatGPT’s usage endpoint; cloud parity reads account identity and compares it with the cloud account., Cloud credential transfers happen through an explicit sync command or after an interactive confirmation to store credentials in the Rudder cloud vault., The flagged Claude, Codex, and dashboard paths read app-specific session, model-cache, and local dashboard data; they do not establish foreign agent settings changes., Other flagged paths support local task handling, secret redaction, explicit improvement scheduling, feedback, and paste upload features.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no dependency on its own package; its runtime dependencies are unrelated packages., No unrelated credential recipient or unconsented broad agent configuration mutation was identified in the inspected source.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of @viraatdas/rudder@3.3.1 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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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 = 5153992
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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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@3.3.1/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:** 3.3.1
- **License:** Elastic-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-18T06:17:20.962Z
- **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:** 181
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,620,343 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@viraatdas/rudder/v/3.3.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/viraatdas/rudder>)
- [Homepage](<https://rudder.viraat.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/viraatdas/rudder/issues>)
