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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volter/supercode"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volter/supercode/v/0.5.250.md"
package: "@volter/supercode"
report_status: "published"
title: "@volter/supercode@0.5.250 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.5.250"
---

# @volter/supercode@0.5.250 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:** 0.5.250
- **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.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. The postinstall hook can add this package's bundled skills and messaging tools to existing Claude and Codex harnesses. This is a first-party agent extension setup performed during installation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-07T02:49:25.679Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-07T02:50:04.132Z
- **Download time:** 1274 ms
- **Static scan time:** 138 ms
- **AI review time:** 37040 ms
- **Total time:** 38453 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 postinstall hook can add this package's bundled skills and messaging tools to existing Claude and Codex harnesses. This is a first-party agent extension setup performed during installation.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package when it is recognized as the machine's own supercode installation.

- **Impact:** Agent behavior and available tools can change automatically after package installation; inspected code limits skill replacement to folders marked as previously written by supercode.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, lib/release.mjs, lib/skills.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-07T02:50:04.132Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook imports the skill installer, copies packaged skill folders into harness skill directories, and registers messaging tools through the package's native binary.

- **Rationale:** The install-time modification of agent skill and messaging-tool configuration is a concrete lifecycle risk, but the inspected code performs first-party package-owned setup with protections for user-owned skills. Classify as a warning under the agent integration policy, not as malicious behavior.

- **Files touched:** lib/release.mjs, lib/skills.mjs

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package runs lib/release.mjs automatically after installation., The release hook installs this release's bundled skills into existing Claude and Codex harness homes when the machine's own package install runs., The installer preserves symlinks, unmarked folders, and skills whose contents differ from its recorded hash, but writes its own bundled skill folders., It also registers the package's messaging tools with each harness during that install.

- **Evidence against:** The skills being installed are shipped by this package, and the installer avoids replacing user-provided or edited skill folders., The inspected behavior does not show credential collection, external network communication, or remote code execution.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @volter/supercode@0.5.250.

- Review the evidence and your use of @volter/supercode@0.5.250 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/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/supercode.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/bin/supercode.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: 
L8: const { spawnSync } = require("child_process");
L9: const { pathToFileURL } = require("url");
```

### 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. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** lib/skills.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/lib/skills.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time code directly mutates a foreign AI-agent control surface:
L12: // `supercode teams connect` (sdk/teams bin/workspace.mjs).
L13: import { cpSync, existsSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, readlinkSync, renameSync, rmSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
L14: import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
...
L25: const HARNESS_HOMES = [
L26: { harness: 'claude', home: () => process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR || join(homedir(), '.claude') },
L27: { harness: 'codex', home: () => process.env.CODEX_HOME || join(homedir(), '.codex') },
L28: ];
...
L73: try {
L74: mkdirSync(folder, { recursive: true });
L75: // written beside it and moved into place, so a harness reading skills never sees half of one
...
L77: rmSync(staged, { recursive: true, force: true });
L78: c
```

### 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. 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.

### 10. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/package.json>)

The package runs lib/release.mjs automatically after installation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": { "postinstall": "node lib/release.mjs" },
  "dependencies"
```

### 11. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Path:** lib/skills.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/lib/skills.mjs>)

The release hook installs this release's bundled skills into existing Claude and Codex harness homes when the machine's own package install runs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
/** Put the release's skills into every harness home here; answers a line per skill and home. */
export function installSkills({ version = release() } = {}) {
  const source = join(PACKAGE, 'skills');
  if (!existsSync(source)) return ['this release carries no skills'];
  const skills = readdirSync(source, { withFileTypes: true }).filter((entry) => entry.isDirectory() && existsSync(join(source, entry.name, 'SKILL.md'
```

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Path:** lib/skills.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@volter/supercode@0.5.250/lib/skills.mjs>)

The installer preserves symlinks, unmarked folders, and skills whose contents differ from its recorded hash, but writes its own bundled skill folders.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
const target = join(folder, name);
      let stat = null;
      try { stat = lstatSync(target); } catch { /* absent */ }
      if (stat?.isSymbolicLink()) { report.push(`${harness} ${name}: kept, a link someone made (${readlinkSync(target)})`); continue; }
      if (stat && !existsSync(join(target, MARKER))) { report.push(`${harness} ${name}: kept, a folder supercode did not write`); continue; }
      const shipped = dig
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 5
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### Published dependency entries
- @volter/supercode-harness-sdk 0.3.78 (Dependency)
- @volter/supercode-orchestrator 0.5.93 (Dependency)
- @volter/supercode-teams 0.3.136 (Dependency)
- @volter/supercode-cli-darwin-arm64 0.5.250 (OptionalDependency)
- @volter/supercode-cli-darwin-x64 0.5.250 (OptionalDependency)
- @volter/supercode-cli-linux-arm64 0.5.250 (OptionalDependency)
- @volter/supercode-cli-linux-x64 0.5.250 (OptionalDependency)
- @volter/supercode-cli-win32-x64 0.5.250 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @volter/supercode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.5.250
- **License:** MIT OR Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T02:47:32.992Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-28T00:58:37.381Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T00:30:48.836Z
- **Known versions:** 63
- **Latest version:** 0.5.265
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Volter Harness: a lightweight, customizable AI coding agent CLI — any model via OpenRouter; natively continues Claude Code and Codex sessions.
- **Maintainers:** volter-oliverio, aaronvolter
- **Keywords:** ai, agent, llm, coding, cli, openrouter, claude, codex
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16
- **Artifact files:** 13
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 104,761 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@volter/supercode/v/0.5.250>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/volter-ai/supercode>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/volter-ai/supercode#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/volter-ai/supercode/issues>)