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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aclade-agent/v/1.2.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aclade-agent/v/1.2.3.md"
package: "aclade-agent"
report_status: "published"
title: "aclade-agent@1.2.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.2.3"
---

# aclade-agent@1.2.3 npm security report

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## 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:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.2.3
- **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.

Source establishes conditional forwarding of an existing service credential to an unrestricted operator-configured endpoint. The runtime agent capabilities and absence of install hooks do not support a malicious verdict.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-02T09:50:47.875Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-02T09:52:25.296Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 195 ms
- **AI review time:** 96716 ms
- **Total time:** 97421 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:** An operator-selected host can receive an existing Aclade token. This establishes conditional credential exposure, but no covert attack was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** Run the agent with --host pointing elsewhere while an existing token is available.

- **Impact:** The selected endpoint can obtain the existing service credential.

- **Evidence paths:** src/index.ts, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-02T09:52:25.296Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Host selection does not bind the saved token to its original service; polling sends it as a bearer credential.

- **Rationale:** Source establishes conditional forwarding of an existing service credential to an unrestricted operator-configured endpoint. The runtime agent capabilities and absence of install hooks do not support a malicious verdict.

- **Files touched:** .aclade-agent.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://aclade.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The agent reads its saved configuration and reuses a stored token when no new token is supplied., The --host option selects an unrestricted destination independently of the reused token., The active poll loop sends that token in the Authorization header through an HTTP or HTTPS request., The entrypoint requires a token and starts the poll loop when the agent runs., The manifest defines build and start scripts without install lifecycle hooks.

- **Evidence against:** Shell execution, file access, browser automation, and package self-updates follow the agent's runtime tool structure., No hidden recipient or concrete malicious install behavior was identified.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to aclade-agent@1.2.3.

- Review the evidence and your use of aclade-agent@1.2.3 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aclade-agent@1.2.3/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L38: const https = __importStar(require("https"));
L39: const child_process = __importStar(require("child_process"));
L40: const fs = __importStar(require("fs"));
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/index.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aclade-agent@1.2.3/src/index.ts>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L512: const proc = child_process.spawn(input.command, [], { // nosemgrep: javascript.lang.security.detect-child-process.detect-child-process
L513: shell: true,
L514: cwd: input.cwd ? resolvePath(input.cwd) : workspaceRoot,
```

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aclade-agent@1.2.3/dist/index.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L61: * The agent already self-updates through npm, so telling a customer to run
L62: * `npx playwright install` by hand was busywork we could just do. playwright-core
L63: * ships the same installer the `playwright` package exposes, so we invoke it
...
L74: console.log("=> Preparing the browser (one-time download, ~50MB)…");
L75: const proc = child_process.spawn(process.execPath, [cli, "install", "chromium", "--only-shell", "--no-progress"], {
L76: stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 9. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/index.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aclade-agent@1.2.3/src/index.ts>)

The agent reads its saved configuration and reuses a stored token when no new token is supplied.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
token = token || envToken || stored.token || "";
  if (!workspaceRoot && stored.workspaceRoot) workspaceRoot = stored.workspaceRoot;
  if (args.indexOf("--host") === -1 && stored.host) host = stored
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @xenova/transformers ^2.17.2 (Dependency)
- node-cron ^4.6.0 (Dependency)
- playwright-core ^1.62.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** aclade-agent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.3
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-28T16:52:06.162Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-07T13:48:19.201Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-02T10:00:17.603Z
- **Known versions:** 10
- **Latest version:** 1.3.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Aclade Local AI Agent Connector
- **Maintainers:** acladesupport
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 93,043 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aclade-agent/v/1.2.3>)