---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aegiscode/v/5.2.31"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aegiscode/v/5.2.31.md"
package: "aegiscode"
report_status: "published"
title: "aegiscode@5.2.31 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "5.2.31"
---

# aegiscode@5.2.31 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Passed — safe to install** — No malicious behavior detected. 24 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 5.2.31
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

No confirmed malicious install-time or import-time attack surface. The CLI is a user-invoked coding agent with explicit cloud-memory and model-provider features.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T00:20:44.937Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T00:21:55.761Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8801 ms
- **AI review time:** 61520 ms
- **Total time:** 70824 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No confirmed malicious install-time or import-time attack surface. The CLI is a user-invoked coding agent with explicit cloud-memory and model-provider features.

- **Trigger:** Running the aegis CLI and explicitly configuring a model or AEGIS Cloud account.

- **Impact:** User-provided conversation memory may be sent to the configured AEGIS Cloud service; no unconsented credential harvesting or foreign agent-control mutation was found.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/ensure-node-version.mjs, scripts/install.sh, scripts/install-alacritty.sh, bin/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-11T00:21:55.761Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Configured API-key model requests and optional authenticated conversation-memory sync.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found a bundled AI coding CLI with expected network, environment, shell, and optional cloud-sync functionality, but no concrete malicious chain. Its sole lifecycle hook is a local Node-version check.

- **Network endpoints:** https://aegiscloud.org/api/memory, https://aegiscloud.org/api/conversations, https://api.openai.com, https://api.anthropic.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json preinstall only checks the Node major version and exits; it makes no writes or requests., bin/cli.js cloud sync requires a configured aegiscloud API key and is exposed through explicit /cloud commands., bin/cli.js reads configured LLM keys to make user-requested model API calls; no broad environment upload was found., scripts/install-alacritty.sh and scripts/install.sh are standalone, user-invoked installers, not lifecycle hooks.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/ensure-node-version.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L25: `)e&&(c+=tdI("")),c+=X4I(t);else if(h===`
L26: `){let r=[...t];Q4I(Z.slice(N+1),r),c+=H4I(r),e&&(c+=tdI(e))}N+=h.length}return c}});import xY from"node:process";import{execFileSync as y4I}from"node:child_process";import Lv from...
L27: at`)?" (<anonymous>)":-1<i.stack.indexOf("@")?"@unknown:0:0":""}return`
```

### 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. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution with blocking evidence.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransitions--}function j(z){if(FG===null)try{var dI=("requir...
L19: `+NI.replace(/^Error(:[^\n]*)?\n/,""))});return nI.prototype=Object.create(U.prototype),nI.prototype.constructor=nI,nI.prototype.toString=function(){return this.message===void 0?th...
...
L25: `)e&&(c+=tdI("")),c+=X4I(t);else if(h===`
L26: `){let r=[...t];Q4I(Z.slice(N+1),r),c+=H4I(r),e&&(c+=tdI(e))}N+=h.length}return c}});import xY from"node:process";import{execFileSync as y4I}from"node:child_process";import Lv from...
L27: at`)?" (<anonymous>)":-1<i.stack.indexOf("@")?"@unknown:0:0":""}return`
```

### 8. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: 
L4: var RCI=Object.create;var fB=Object.defineProperty;var FCI=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var QCI=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var XCI=Object.getPrototypeOf,HCI=Object.prototype.has...
L5: `);let c;for(;(c=CCI.exec(G))!=null;){let e=c[1],t=c[2]||"";t=t.trim();let n=t[0];t=t.replace(/^(['"`])([\s\S]*)\1$/mg,"$2"),n==='"'&&(t=t.replace(/\\n/g,`
L6: `),t=t.replace(/\\r/g,"\r")),I[e]=t}return I}function LCI(l){l=l||{};let I=znI(l);l.path=I;let G=bn.configDotenv(l);if(!G.parsed){let n=new Error(`MISSING_DATA: Cannot parse ${I} f...
L7: 
...
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransitions--}function j(z){if(FG===null)try{var dI=("requ
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransitions--}function j(z){if(FG===null)try{var dI=("requir...
L19: `+NI.replace(/^Error(:[^\n]*)?\n/,""))});return nI.prototype=Object.create(U.prototype),nI.prototype.constructor=nI,nI.prototype.toString=function(){return this.message===void 0?th...
...
L25: `)e&&(c+=tdI("")),c+=X4I(t);else if(h===`
L26: `){let r=[...t];Q4I(Z.slice(N+1),r),c+=H4I(r),e&&(c+=tdI(e))}N+=h.length}return c}});import xY from"node:process";import{execFileSync as y4I}from"node:child_process";import Lv from...
L27: at`)?" (<anonymous>)":-1<i.stack.indexOf("@")?"@unknown:0:0":""}return`
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: 
L4: var RCI=Object.create;var fB=Object.defineProperty;var FCI=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var QCI=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var XCI=Object.getPrototypeOf,HCI=Object.prototype.has...
L5: `);let c;for(;(c=CCI.exec(G))!=null;){let e=c[1],t=c[2]||"";t=t.trim();let n=t[0];t=t.replace(/^(['"`])([\s\S]*)\1$/mg,"$2"),n==='"'&&(t=t.replace(/\\n/g,`
L6: `),t=t.replace(/\\r/g,"\r")),I[e]=t}return I}function LCI(l){l=l||{};let I=znI(l);l.path=I;let G=bn.configDotenv(l);if(!G.parsed){let n=new Error(`MISSING_DATA: Cannot parse ${I} f...
L7: 
...
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransitions--}function j(z){if(FG===null)try{var dI=("requ
```

### 11. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> bin/cli.js
L3: 
L4: var RCI=Object.create;var fB=Object.defineProperty;var FCI=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var QCI=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var XCI=Object.getPrototypeOf,HCI=Object.prototype.has...
L5: `);let c;for(;(c=CCI.exec(G))!=null;){let e=c[1],t=c[2]||"";t=t.trim();let n=t[0];t=t.replace(/^(['"`])([\s\S]*)\1$/mg,"$2"),n==='"'&&(t=t.replace(/\\n/g,`
L6: `),t=t.replace(/\\r/g,"\r")),I[e]=t}return I}function LCI(l){l=l||{};let I=znI(l);l.path=I;let G=bn.configDotenv(l);if(!G.parsed){let n=new Error(`MISSING_DATA: Cannot parse ${I} f...
L7: 
...
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransi
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> bin/cli.js
L3: 
L4: var RCI=Object.create;var fB=Object.defineProperty;var FCI=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor;var QCI=Object.getOwnPropertyNames;var XCI=Object.getPrototypeOf,HCI=Object.prototype.has...
L5: `);let c;for(;(c=CCI.exec(G))!=null;){let e=c[1],t=c[2]||"";t=t.trim();let n=t[0];t=t.replace(/^(['"`])([\s\S]*)\1$/mg,"$2"),n==='"'&&(t=t.replace(/\\n/g,`
L6: `),t=t.replace(/\\r/g,"\r")),I[e]=t}return I}function LCI(l){l=l||{};let I=znI(l);l.path=I;let G=bn.configDotenv(l);if(!G.parsed){let n=new Error(`MISSING_DATA: Cannot parse ${I} f...
L7: 
...
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}fun
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> bin/cli.js
L17: 3. You might have more than one copy of React in the same app
L18: See https://react.dev/link/invalid-hook-call for tips about how to debug and fix this problem.`),z}function D(){eI.asyncTransitions--}function j(z){if(FG===null)try{var dI=("requir...
L19: `+NI.replace(/^Error(:[^\n]*)?\n/,""))});return nI.prototype=Object.create(U.prototype),nI.prototype.constructor=nI,nI.prototype.toString=function(){return this.message===void 0?th...
...
L25: `)e&&(c+=tdI("")),c+=X4I(t);else if(h===`
L26: `){let r=[...t];Q4I(Z.slice(N+1),r),c+=H4I(r),e&&(c+=tdI(e))}N+=h.length}return c}});import xY from"node:process";import{execFileSync as y4I}from"node:child_process";import Lv from...
L27: at`)?" (<anonymous>)":-1<i.sta
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/release-local.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/scripts/release-local.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/release-local.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3031
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = bin/cli.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 8103809
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = bin/cli.js
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 8103809
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. 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.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = aegiscode@5.2.24
matchedPath = bin/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YWVnaXNjb2Rl:5.2.24
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-alacritty.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/scripts/install-alacritty.sh>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = aegiscode@5.2.24
matchedPath = scripts/install-alacritty.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:YWVnaXNjb2Rl:5.2.24
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/scripts/install.sh>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = aegiscode@5.2.24
matchedPath = scripts/install.sh
matchedIdentity = npm:YWVnaXNjb2Rl:5.2.24
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aegiscode@5.2.31/bin/cli.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = fa4febf3d7379bea
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = aegiscode@5.2.24
matchedPath = bin/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YWVnaXNjb2Rl:5.2.24
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 7
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 22
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 22

### Published dependency entries
- @huggingface/transformers ^4.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^17.4.2 (Dependency)
- fuse.js ^7.4.1 (Dependency)
- glob ^13.0.0 (Dependency)
- ink ^7.1.1 (Dependency)
- ink-text-input ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- js-tiktoken ^1.0.21 (Dependency)
- lowlight ^3.3.0 (Dependency)
- minimatch ^10.2.6 (Dependency)
- nanoid ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- openai ^7.3.0 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.8 (Dependency)
- react-dom ^19.2.8 (Dependency)
- sql.js ^1.14.1 (Dependency)
- string-width ^8.2.2 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.2 (Dependency)
- yargs ^18.1.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)
- zustand ^5.0.14 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** aegiscode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.2.31
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T20:25:51.901Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T06:25:20.493Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T02:05:23.847Z
- **Known versions:** 21
- **Latest version:** 5.2.33
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** AEGIS CLI — AI-powered coding assistant
- **Author:** Niklas Borneklint
- **Maintainers:** n.borneklint
- **Keywords:** cli, ai, coding-agent, llm, openai, gpt, claude, copilot, assistant, terminal, developer-tools
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,153,555 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aegiscode/v/5.2.31>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/aegisinfo/aegiscode>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/aegisinfo/aegiscode#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/aegisinfo/aegiscode/issues>)
