@whalent/agent@0.3.406
Stable wrapper for Whalent Agent core runtime
AI Security Review
scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiNo automatic lifecycle hook or concrete theft, destructive action, or foreign control-surface mutation was found. The deliberately opaque executable runtime combined with agent, process, and code-execution capability warrants a warning.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
A user runs the whalent CLI or sends an execute request to its Jupyter sidecar.
Impact
A user who runs and connects the agent may expose local execution capability to its configured control plane; the obfuscation prevents verifying its safeguards.
Mechanism
Opaque agent runtime with child-process, remote-agent, and local kernel execution capability.
AI rationale
No automatic lifecycle hook or concrete theft, destructive action, or foreign control-surface mutation was found. The deliberately opaque executable runtime combined with agent, process, and code-execution capability warrants a warning.
Evidence
dist/index.cjsdist/core.cjsdist/jupyter_sidecar.py
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 84.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The CLI entry point and its 15 MB core runtime are heavily obfuscated, preventing meaningful auditing of its process-spawning, updater, and persistence paths.
- The included Jupyter sidecar accepts an execute request and starts a Python worker with supplied code.
- The package is an agent wrapper that ships a separate optional core runtime and declares SSH, WebSocket, proxy, and terminal dependencies.
Evidence against
- The manifest has no preinstall, install, postinstall, or prepare hook; installation alone does not run the executable.
- The visible Python sidecar is a bounded local NDJSON kernel bridge and contains no outbound-network code.
Behavioral surface
DynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystem
HighEntropyStringsMinifiedPossibleObfuscationTrivial
NoLicense
Source & flagged code
5 flagged · loading sourcedist/index.cjsView file
1#!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';(function(_0xd5748b,_0x4ef79b){function _0x315a80(_0x46169e,_0x26abdb,_0x3bec46,_0x228c75){return a0_0x298e(_0x46169e-0x32,_0x3bec46);}const _0x5762b6=_0xd5748b();func...
High
Obfuscated Payload Loader
Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.
dist/index.cjsView on unpkg · L11#!/usr/bin/env node
L2: 'use strict';(function(_0xd5748b,_0x4ef79b){function _0x315a80(_0x46169e,_0x26abdb,_0x3bec46,_0x228c75){return a0_0x298e(_0x46169e-0x32,_0x3bec46);}const _0x5762b6=_0xd5748b();func...
Medium
Dynamic Require
Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.
dist/index.cjsView on unpkg · L1dist/jupyter_sidecar.pyView file
•path = dist/jupyter_sidecar.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 18590
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
Ships Build Helper
Findings
1 High6 Medium5 Low
HighObfuscated Payload Loaderdist/index.cjs
MediumDynamic Requiredist/index.cjs
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumShips Build Helperdist/jupyter_sidecar.py
MediumOversized Source Filedist/core.cjs
MediumOversized Cli Entrypointdist/core.cjs
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowNon Install Lifecycle Scripts
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowNo License
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @whalent/agent@0.3.406.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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