---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.20.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.20.0.md"
package: "agency-lang"
report_status: "published"
title: "agency-lang@0.20.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.20.0"
---

# agency-lang@0.20.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.20.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected source supports package functionality and guarded file updates; the scanner's execution and network indicators alone do not establish malicious behavior. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was identified.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-12T04:20:34.980Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-12T04:21:41.131Z
- **Download time:** 774 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8333 ms
- **AI review time:** 57043 ms
- **Total time:** 66151 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:** No attack surface was confirmed in the inspected package sources. The flagged process and network operations are used for subprocess execution, OAuth token handling, and guarded source writeback.

- **Trigger:** Use of the package runtime, CLI, or OAuth functionality.

- **Impact:** No harmful effect was established from these inspected behaviors.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-12T04:21:41.131Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code launches Node or a bounded runtime subprocess, performs OAuth token exchange, and checks source hashes before writeback.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source supports package functionality and guarded file updates; the scanner's execution and network indicators alone do not establish malicious behavior. No install hook or concrete attack behavior was identified.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json lists ordinary test and CLI scripts; no install hook is shown in the scripts section., dist/lib/optimize/workspace.js checks source file hashes before writeback and aborts if a file changed., dist/lib/runtime/ipc.js forks a subprocess using configured limits and working directory., dist/lib/stdlib/oauth.js exchanges authorization data through an HTTP helper as part of OAuth token handling., dist/lib/cli/commands.js starts Node with compiled output and runtime arguments.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to agency-lang@0.20.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of agency-lang@0.20.0 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/lib/optimize/workspace.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/optimize/workspace.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: /** Mint a fresh cache-partition token. */
L7: fork() {
L8: this.counter += 1;
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/runtime/ipc.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/runtime/ipc.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L388: env: { ...process.env, AGENCY_IPC: "1" },
L389: execArgv: [`--max-old-space-size=${memoryMb}`],
L390: ...(args.cwd ? { cwd: args.cwd } : {}),
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/optimize/optimizerModule.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/optimize/optimizerModule.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L32: // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax -- CLI-layer loading of a user artifact; the bundle path is only known at runtime
L33: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(out).href);
L34: const factory = mod.default;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 7. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/cli/schedule/backends/launchd.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/cli/schedule/backends/launchd.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
L2: import * as fs from "fs";
...
L6: import renderPlist from "../../../templates/cli/schedule/plist.js";
L7: const PLIST_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), "Library", "LaunchAgents");
L8: function plistPath(name) {
...
L64: agentDir: path.dirname(entry.agentFile),
L65: path: process.env.PATH ?? "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
L66: home: os.homedir(),
...
L71: fs.mkdirSync(PLIST_DIR, { recursive: true });
L72: // Unload first if already loaded (launchctl load fails on already-loaded plists)
L73: if (fs.existsSync(dest)) {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/stdlib/oauth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/stdlib/oauth.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import http from "http";
L2: import crypto from "crypto";
...
L5: import path from "path";
L6: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L7: import { getEncryptionKey, encrypt, decrypt } from "./oauthEncryption.js";
...
L11: function getTokenDir() {
L12: return process.env.AGENCY_OAUTH_TOKEN_DIR || path.join(os.homedir(), ".agency", "oauth");
L13: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 11. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/cli/mlxSpeechServer.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/cli/mlxSpeechServer.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = dist/lib/cli/mlxSpeechServer.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 11997
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

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

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/cli/commands.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/cli/commands.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 17
```

### 16. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/cli/commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.20.0/dist/lib/cli/commands.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = agency-lang@0.19.2
matchedIdentity = npm:YWdlbmN5LWxhbmc:0.19.2
similarity = 0.933
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- chokidar ^4 (Dependency)
- cli-highlight ^2.1.11 (Dependency)
- diff-match-patch ^1.0.5 (Dependency)
- esbuild ^0.27.4 (Dependency)
- highlight.js ^10.7.1 (Dependency)
- nanoid ^5.1.6 (Dependency)
- picomatch ^4.0.4 (Dependency)
- prompts ^2.4.2 (Dependency)
- smoltalk ^0.14.1 (Dependency)
- tarsec 0.5.4 (Dependency)
- typestache ^0.6.0 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver ^9.0.1 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver-protocol ^3.17.5 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver-textdocument ^1.0.12 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** agency-lang
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.20.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-16T03:43:53.859Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-08T17:04:58.734Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T02:56:37.540Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 0.38.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** The Agency language
- **Author:** Aditya Bhargava
- **Maintainers:** egonschiele
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.13.0
- **Artifact files:** 2390
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 20,411,493 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.20.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang/issues>)
