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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agent-takkub/v/1.0.46"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agent-takkub/v/1.0.46.md"
package: "agent-takkub"
report_status: "published"
title: "agent-takkub@1.0.46 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.46"
---

# agent-takkub@1.0.46 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 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:** 1.0.46
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installation writes persistent user PATH configuration and a desktop launcher, creates an isolated Python environment, and may globally install the Claude CLI. Claude plugin/MCP changes occur through explicit runtime provisioning, not install time.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T17:14:36.763Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T17:15:33.668Z
- **Download time:** 502 ms
- **Static scan time:** 71 ms
- **AI review time:** 56331 ms
- **Total time:** 56905 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation writes persistent user PATH configuration and a desktop launcher, creates an isolated Python environment, and may globally install the Claude CLI. Claude plugin/MCP changes occur through explicit runtime provisioning, not install time.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall; later explicit takkub provision/runtime actions

- **Impact:** Persistent user-environment changes and later agent-extension management capability.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, npm/scripts/postinstall.js, npm/scripts/pathfix.js, npm/scripts/shortcut.js, npm/scripts/preflight.js, dist/agent\_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T17:15:33.668Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** install-time environment provisioning and PATH persistence

- **Rationale:** Source inspection does not establish malicious behavior, but the unconsented install-time persistence and global CLI installation are material side effects. Treat as a warning rather than a block.

- **Files touched:** package.json, npm/scripts/postinstall.js, npm/scripts/pathfix.js, npm/scripts/shortcut.js, npm/scripts/lib.js, dist/agent\_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall, npm/scripts/postinstall.js creates a venv and installs bundled wheel, npm/scripts/pathfix.js persists PATH in shell profiles/HKCU, postinstall may install @anthropic-ai/claude-code globally, wheel includes runtime code to manage Claude plugins/MCPs

- **Evidence against:** No credential harvesting or exfiltration found in inspected lifecycle code, No remote payload download/exec in postinstall, Plugin/MCP installation is an explicit takkub provision action, Postinstall states it avoids ~/.claude plugins and config, Wheel is source-only Python plus normal UI assets; no native executable found

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node npm/scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node npm/scripts/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 5. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** npm/scripts/pathfix.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/npm/scripts/pathfix.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: //              then broadcasts WM_SETTINGCHANGE so new shells see it.
L12: //   • darwin/linux — appends a marker-guarded export block to ~/.zshrc (and
L13: //              ~/.bashrc when present). Idempotent via the marker.
...
L16: 
L17: const { execFileSync, spawnSync } = require('child_process');
L18: const fs = require('fs');
...
L25: // Node ≥18 refuses to spawn .cmd shims without a shell (CVE-2024-27980
L26: // hardening) — route through cmd.exe explicitly on Windows.
L27: const r =
L28: process.platform === 'win32'
L29: ? spawnSync('cmd.exe', ['/d', '/s', '/c', 'npm prefix -g'], {
...
L34: : spawnSync('npm', ['prefix', '-g'], { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 30000 });
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** npm/scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/npm/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time code directly mutates a foreign AI-agent control surface:
L8: //   • REUSES an existing cockpit venv (upgrade in place) instead of wiping it.
L9: //   • Does NOT touch the global claude CLI, ~/.claude plugins, or ~/.takkub
L10: //     config. Anything shared/missing is left for an explicit, detect-first
...
L84: 
L85: fs.mkdirSync(agentTakkubHome(), { recursive: true });
L86: 
...
L113: 
L114: const claudeOk = ensureClaudeCli(env.claudeCli.present);
L115: 
...
L137: }
L138: console.log('   Left untouched: ~/.claude plugins, ~/.takkub config (nothing overwritten).');
L139: console.log('\n   Next steps:');
Write operation from npm/scripts/postinstall.js:
L8: //   • REUSES an existing cockpit venv (upgrade in place) instead of wiping it.
L9: //   • Does NOT touch the global claud
```

### 8. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** npm/scripts/pathfix.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/npm/scripts/pathfix.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.postinstall -> npm/scripts/postinstall.js -> npm/scripts/pathfix.js
L11: //              then broadcasts WM_SETTINGCHANGE so new shells see it.
L12: //   • darwin/linux — appends a marker-guarded export block to ~/.zshrc (and
L13: //              ~/.bashrc when present). Idempotent via the marker.
...
L16: 
L17: const { execFileSync, spawnSync } = require('child_process');
L18: const fs = require('fs');
...
L25: // Node ≥18 refuses to spawn .cmd shims without a shell (CVE-2024-27980
L26: // hardening) — route through cmd.exe explicitly on Windows.
L27: const r =
L28: process.platform === 'win32'
L29: ? spawnSync('cmd.exe', ['/d', '/s', '/c', 'npm prefix -g'], {
...
L34: : spawnSync('npm', ['prefix', '-g'], { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 30000 });
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/agent\_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 1880146
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/agent\_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 1880146
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/agent\_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/agent-takkub@1.0.46/dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/agent_takkub-1.0.46-py3-none-any.whl
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 1880146
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** agent-takkub
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.46
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T09:39:17.724Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T08:01:06.240Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T07:19:10.107Z
- **Known versions:** 29
- **Latest version:** 1.0.75
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Desktop cockpit for orchestrating a team of Claude Code agents (Windows + macOS). Install globally: npm i -g agent-takkub
- **Author:** takkub
- **Maintainers:** monchai.m
- **Keywords:** claude, claude-code, ai-agents, agent-orchestration, cockpit, desktop, cli, developer-tools
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Supported OS:** win32, darwin
- **Artifact files:** 14
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,640,673 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agent-takkub/v/1.0.46>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/takkub/agent-takkub>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/takkub/agent-takkub#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/takkub/agent-takkub/issues>)
