--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@whalent/agent/v/0.3.440" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@whalent/agent/v/0.3.440.md" package: "@whalent/agent" report_status: "published" title: "@whalent/agent@0.3.440 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "0.3.440" --- # @whalent/agent@0.3.440 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Persistence - **Selected version:** 0.3.440 - **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. Automatic global self-updating from an obfuscated CLI is a concrete persistence risk. The absence of a registry install hook prevents classifying the observed behavior as malicious install-hook abuse. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-22T06:42:18.389Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-22T06:51:41.126Z - **Download time:** 505 ms - **Static scan time:** 198 ms - **AI review time:** 562032 ms - **Total time:** 562737 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 CLI is heavily obfuscated and includes an automatic global self-update path. No install-time hook or confirmed credential theft was identified. - **Trigger:** Running the whalent CLI in supervised mode. - **Impact:** A CLI invocation can replace the globally installed wrapper with a newer release, creating an unreviewed persistence and supply-chain update surface. - **Evidence paths:** dist/index.cjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-22T06:51:41.126Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The wrapper checks npm for a newer version and uses npm with a global-install argument before restarting the wrapper. - **Rationale:** Automatic global self-updating from an obfuscated CLI is a concrete persistence risk. The absence of a registry install hook prevents classifying the observed behavior as malicious install-hook abuse. - **Files touched:** dist/index.cjs ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 86.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for warning:** The package exposes the obfuscated wrapper as both its main module and CLI., The CLI automatically checks for a newer wrapper release when it runs., The updater invokes npm globally to install the selected wrapper version., No npm preinstall, install, or postinstall hook is declared. - **Evidence against:** The inspected metadata has no automatic registry-install lifecycle hook., The inspected updater uses a named package version rather than an arbitrary shell command. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @whalent/agent@0.3.440. - Review the evidence and your use of @whalent/agent@0.3.440 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. 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]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: #!/usr/bin/env node L2: 'use strict';(function(_0x38d8bf,_0x32b117){function _0x1baf9a(_0x5f01ab,_0x35f2f4,_0xd9240d,_0x461f44){return a0_0x4140(_0x461f44-0x217,_0xd9240d);}function _0x57b138(_0x4d816a,_0... ``` ### 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]() 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(_0x38d8bf,_0x32b117){function _0x1baf9a(_0x5f01ab,_0x35f2f4,_0xd9240d,_0x461f44){return a0_0x4140(_0x461f44-0x217,_0xd9240d);}function _0x57b138(_0x4d816a,_0... ``` ### 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]() 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]() 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 = 16500994 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 10. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 80.0% - **Path:** dist/core.cjs - **Public source:** [View source]() Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript path = dist/core.cjs kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint sizeBytes = 16500994 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 0.3.440 (OptionalDependency) - node-pty ^1.1.0 (OptionalDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @whalent/agent - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.3.440 - **License:** UNLICENSED - **Version published:** 2026-09-17T07:18:45.664Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T21:33:09.253Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T19:04:46.767Z - **Known versions:** 194 - **Latest version:** 0.3.528 - **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:** 16,731,759 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]()