--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ai-crawler-check/v/1.2.8" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ai-crawler-check/v/1.2.8.md" package: "ai-crawler-check" report_status: "published" title: "ai-crawler-check@1.2.8 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "1.2.8" --- # ai-crawler-check@1.2.8 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 8 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked) - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Telemetry - **Selected version:** 1.2.8 - **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. The CLI automatically reports the audited domain and full URL to the publisher’s telemetry endpoint. Because the report includes identifying URL details and this behavior is not disclosed in the package README, classify it as suspicious telemetry. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-31T17:32:41.896Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-31T17:33:09.638Z - **Download time:** 256 ms - **Static scan time:** 45 ms - **AI review time:** 27440 ms - **Total time:** 27742 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:** Undisclosed CLI telemetry sends the audited domain and full URL to the package publisher’s service. - **Trigger:** A user runs the CLI to audit a URL. - **Impact:** The publisher receives the audited host and URL, which may reveal private paths or query parameters. - **Evidence paths:** bin/ai-crawler-check.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T17:33:09.638Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The audit posts the target URL, domain, and scan results to https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel. - **Rationale:** The CLI automatically reports the audited domain and full URL to the publisher’s telemetry endpoint. Because the report includes identifying URL details and this behavior is not disclosed in the package README, classify it as suspicious telemetry. - **Network endpoints:** https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel, User-provided target URL, plus its /robots.txt, /llms.txt, and /.well-known/ai-catalog.json paths ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** After an audit, the CLI sends a POST to https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel with the audited domain and full target URL., The audit telemetry also includes scan stage and measured results such as token estimate, truncation status, and dropped-price count., The telemetry runs as part of the CLI audit flow and is awaited before it exits. - **Evidence against:** The package is a CLI for auditing a URL and generating AI crawler discovery files., The manifest declares no lifecycle scripts; the network behavior is tied to running the CLI. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to ai-crawler-check@1.2.8. - Review the evidence and your use of ai-crawler-check@1.2.8 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. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 2. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 3. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 4. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 5. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** bin/ai-crawler-check.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1 ``` ### 6. Medium: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Path:** bin/ai-crawler-check.js - **Public source:** [View source]() After an audit, the CLI sends a POST to https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel with the audited domain and full target URL. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript // Non-blocking funnel telemetry ping const telemetryPromise = safeFetch( 'https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel', { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, 1200 ).catch(() => null); fetch('https://answerrail.com/api/telemetry/funnel', { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ stage: shouldWrite ? 'cli_write' : 'cli_scan', domain: cleanDomain, url: targetUrl, estimatedTokens, isTruncated, droppedPricesCount, ``` ### 7. Medium: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Path:** bin/ai-crawler-check.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The telemetry runs as part of the CLI audit flow and is awaited before it exits. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript await telemetryPromise; } catch (err) { console.error(`\x1b[31mError probing target URL:\x1b[0m`, err.message); process.exit(1); } } ``` ### 8. Medium: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 96.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() The audit telemetry also includes scan stage and measured results such as token estimate, truncation status, and dropped-price count. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "name": "ai-crawler-check", "version": "1.2.8", "description": "Test and simulate 25,000-token AI crawler truncation (--max-tokens=25000), RFC 9110 Accept: text/markdown content negotiation, 100% pricing/FAQ recall, /llms.tx ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 0 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0 ## Package metadata - **Package:** ai-crawler-check - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.2.8 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-10-31T17:29:52.694Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-10-21T16:57:13.204Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-31T18:04:40.921Z - **Known versions:** 3 - **Latest version:** 1.2.9 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Test and simulate 25,000-token AI crawler truncation (--max-tokens=25000), RFC 9110 Accept: text/markdown content negotiation, 100% pricing/FAQ recall, /llms.txt, and Google Lighthouse 13.5 /.well-known/ai-catalog.json (ARD 1.0) for PerplexityBot, ClaudeB - **Author:** The Quite Good Project - **Maintainers:** barnsby.tarquin - **Keywords:** nextjs, markdown, content-negotiation, llm-crawler, ai-agents, llms.txt, llms-txt, ai-catalog.json, ard-1.0, lighthouse-13.5, agentic-browsing, perplexitybot - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 3 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 38,127 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()