---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.7.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.7.0.md"
package: "agency-lang"
report_status: "published"
title: "agency-lang@0.7.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.7.0"
---

# agency-lang@0.7.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 0.7.0
- **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.

Static inspection found no lifecycle hook or import-time behavior that mutates broad AI-agent control surfaces, harvests credentials, or exfiltrates data. The flagged child\_process, network, dynamic import, and persistence primitives are explicit CLI/runtime capabilities for user-authored Agency programs.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-08T17:03:58.453Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-08T17:04:58.734Z
- **Download time:** 757 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4205 ms
- **AI review time:** 55318 ms
- **Total time:** 60281 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 confirmed malicious attack surface was found. Risky primitives are aligned with a language/runtime CLI: running user programs, optional OAuth, model/network helpers, scheduling, and explicit agent-tool setup.

- **Trigger:** User runs agency CLI commands or imports runtime/stdlib APIs.

- **Impact:** No unconsented install-time mutation, exfiltration, or remote payload execution identified.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/scripts/agency.js, dist/lib/stdlib/oauth.js, dist/lib/optimize/optimizerModule.js, dist/lib/cli/schedule/backends/launchd.js, dist/lib/mcp/setup.js, dist/lib/lsp/setup.js, dist/lib/runtime/providerModules.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-08T17:04:58.734Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked language runtime and developer tooling

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found no lifecycle hook or import-time behavior that mutates broad AI-agent control surfaces, harvests credentials, or exfiltrates data. The flagged child\_process, network, dynamic import, and persistence primitives are explicit CLI/runtime capabilities for user-authored Agency programs.

- **Files touched:** ~/.agency/oauth/\<name\>.json, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.agency.schedule.\<name\>.plist, ~/.agency/schedules/\<name\>/run.sh, ~/.codex/config.toml, .claude/plugins/agency-lsp/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, .claude/plugins/agency-lsp/.lsp.json, opencode.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://statelog.adit.io

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall/install/postinstall lifecycle scripts; bin is user-invoked dist/scripts/agency.js., dist/lib/optimize/optimizerModule.js dynamically imports only a user-supplied optimizer file after CLI selection and removes the temp bundle., dist/lib/stdlib/oauth.js stores OAuth tokens under ~/.agency/oauth and posts only to user-configured HTTPS tokenUrl during explicit authorize/refresh flows., dist/lib/cli/schedule/backends/launchd.js creates launchd jobs only through agency schedule add/edit user commands., dist/lib/mcp/setup.js and dist/lib/lsp/setup.js write Codex/agent config only via explicit agency mcp/lsp setup commands, not install-time., dist/lib/runtime/providerModules.js imports provider modules from config/env paths as an advertised extensibility feature.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to agency-lang@0.7.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of agency-lang@0.7.0 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/grading/agencyRunner.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.7.0/dist/lib/optimize/grading/agencyRunner.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L31: }
L32: async exec(agencyFile, nodeName, args) {
L33: const scratchDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "agency-runner-"));
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/runtime/ipc.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.7.0/dist/lib/runtime/ipc.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L348: env: { ...process.env, AGENCY_IPC: "1" },
L349: execArgv: [`--max-old-space-size=${memoryMb}`],
L350: ...(args.cwd ? { cwd: args.cwd } : {}),
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/ir/prettyPrint.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.7.0/dist/lib/ir/prettyPrint.test.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L201: // eslint-disable-next-line no-eval
L202: expect(eval(printTs(node))).toBe("a\\");
L203: });
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/optimize/optimizerModule.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agency-lang@0.7.0/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;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 8. 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@0.7.0/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) {
...
L63: agentDir: path.dirname(entry.agentFile),
L64: path: process.env.PATH ?? "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin",
L65: home: os.homedir(),
...
L70: fs.mkdirSync(PLIST_DIR, { recursive: true });
L71: // Unload first if already loaded (launchctl load fails on already-loaded plists)
L72: if (fs.existsSync(dest)) {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. 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@0.7.0/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: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

- **Dependencies:** 16
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 16

### Published dependency entries
- chokidar ^4 (Dependency)
- cli-highlight ^2.1.11 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (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 ^0.8.1 (Dependency)
- tarsec 0.4.7 (Dependency)
- typestache ^0.5.0 (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:** 0.7.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-08T14:44:06.035Z
- **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
- **Artifact files:** 2312
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 14,916,308 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-lang/v/0.7.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/egonSchiele/agency-lang/issues>)
