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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@whalent/agent/v/0.3.338"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@whalent/agent/v/0.3.338.md"
package: "@whalent/agent"
report_status: "published"
title: "@whalent/agent@0.3.338 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.3.338"
---

# @whalent/agent@0.3.338 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:** 0.3.338
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. When the authenticated CLI daemon runs, it can self-update, install core components, fetch configurations, and activate downloaded helper manifests. This is a material remote-management capability, but not an install-time attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-15T11:55:24.606Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-15T11:58:09.156Z
- **Download time:** 768 ms
- **Static scan time:** 233 ms
- **AI review time:** 163548 ms
- **Total time:** 164550 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** When the authenticated CLI daemon runs, it can self-update, install core components, fetch configurations, and activate downloaded helper manifests. This is a material remote-management capability, but not an install-time attack.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`whalent --token ...\` as a daemon.

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious configured platform could direct updates or restarts of the local agent.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/index.cjs, README.md, dist/jupyter\_sidecar.py

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-15T11:58:09.156Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote configuration, update, and helper-manifest activation.

- **Rationale:** The package is not concretely malicious under the install-control policy, but its obfuscated runtime updater and remote agent-management behavior warrant a warning pending trust in the vendor platform and update channel.

- **Files touched:** dist/index.cjs, dist/core.cjs

- **Network endpoints:** memory.whalent.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Obfuscated CLI entrypoint includes runtime wrapper-update and core-install routines., Daemon documentation says it downloads and activates helper manifests every five minutes., Daemon accepts gateway upgrade/restart commands and auto-starts configured workers.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; only prepublishOnly is declared., The risky behavior is activated by running the authenticated CLI daemon., No confirmed credential exfiltration, destructive action, or foreign AI-agent config mutation.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@whalent/agent@0.3.338/dist/index.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';(function(_0x2a0120,_0x541401){function _0x37c91e(_0x3b7fed,_0x5f3317,_0x3f0c65,_0x1f804e){return a0_0x2cb8(_0x3f0c65-0x104,_0x3b7fed);}const _0x3c675d=_0x2a0120();fun...
```

### 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. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@whalent/agent@0.3.338/dist/index.cjs>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';(function(_0x2a0120,_0x541401){function _0x37c91e(_0x3b7fed,_0x5f3317,_0x3f0c65,_0x1f804e){return a0_0x2cb8(_0x3f0c65-0x104,_0x3b7fed);}const _0x3c675d=_0x2a0120();fun...
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/jupyter\_sidecar.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@whalent/agent@0.3.338/dist/jupyter_sidecar.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = dist/jupyter_sidecar.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 18590
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 9. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/core.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@whalent/agent@0.3.338/dist/core.cjs>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/core.cjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 15014744
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 10. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/core.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@whalent/agent@0.3.338/dist/core.cjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/core.cjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 15014744
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. 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.

### 12. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @agentclientprotocol/sdk ^1.2.1 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.27.1 (Dependency)
- @opencode-ai/sdk ^1.17.15 (Dependency)
- @xterm/headless ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- proxy-agent ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- socks-proxy-agent ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- ssh2 ^1.17.0 (Dependency)
- undici ^6.25.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.16.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.4.0 (Dependency)
- @whalent/agent-core 0.3.338 (OptionalDependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @whalent/agent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.3.338
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-15T11:51:35.102Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T21:33:09.253Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-25T02:16:32.089Z
- **Known versions:** 91
- **Latest version:** 0.3.365
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Stable wrapper for Whalent Agent core runtime
- **Maintainers:** whalent
- **Keywords:** whalent, agent, codex, claude, kimi, acp, ai
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 15,204,024 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@whalent/agent/v/0.3.338>)
