---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aicodeman/v/1.12.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aicodeman/v/1.12.2.md"
package: "aicodeman"
report_status: "published"
title: "aicodeman@1.12.2 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.12.2"
---

# aicodeman@1.12.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.12.2
- **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 package is not confirmed malicious, but install-time autostart plus local mutation and agent-session control are meaningful dangerous capabilities. A warning is appropriate despite package-aligned update networking and loopback defaults.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T11:52:52.958Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T11:53:53.651Z
- **Download time:** 755 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4811 ms
- **AI review time:** 55124 ms
- **Total time:** 60693 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:** Install automatically launches a local agent-control web service and may alter node-pty permissions. In a source checkout it writes a project-local pre-commit hook.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall; subsequent local web access

- **Impact:** Creates an unexpected persistent local control surface for AI coding sessions; no remote compromise chain was confirmed.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/fix-node-pty.mjs, dist/index.js, dist/ai-checker-base.js, dist/web/self-update.js, dist/web/server.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-08T11:53:53.651Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** install-time service launch and local development-environment mutation

- **Rationale:** The package is not confirmed malicious, but install-time autostart plus local mutation and agent-session control are meaningful dangerous capabilities. A warning is appropriate despite package-aligned update networking and loopback defaults.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/fix-node-pty.mjs, dist/index.js, dist/ai-checker-base.js, dist/web/self-update.js, .git/hooks/pre-commit

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases/latest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json defines postinstall., scripts/postinstall.js auto-starts detached dist/index.js web., scripts/postinstall.js can chmod/rebuild node-pty., Source-checkout installs write .git/hooks/pre-commit., dist/ai-checker-base.js launches Claude through tmux.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall network checks are localhost only., Default web bind is 127.0.0.1., Self-update is manual and tag-validated., GitHub update lookup is package-aligned., No credential harvesting or covert exfiltration found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to aicodeman@1.12.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of aicodeman@1.12.2 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/ai-checker-base.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/ai-checker-base.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: */
L25: import { execSync, spawn as childSpawn } from 'node:child_process';
L26: import { existsSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/remote-hosts.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/remote-hosts.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import { promisify } from 'node:util';
L7: const execAsync = promisify(exec);
L8: const REMOTE_HOSTS_FILE = 'remote-hosts.json';
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/self-update.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L32: import { EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS } from '../config/exec-timeout.js';
L33: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L34: const { version: APP_VERSION } = require('../../package.json');
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/self-update.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: */
L24: import { spawn, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L25: import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, renameSync, copyFileSync, chmodSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L33: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L34: const { version: APP_VERSION } = require('../../package.json');
L35: /** systemd unit name (matches install.sh + scripts/codeman-web.service). */
...
L200: return null;
L201: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(STATUS_FILE, 'utf-8'));
L202: }
...
L222: // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
L223: /** Run a command, returning trimmed stdout, or null on any error. */
L224: function tryExec(cmd, args, cwd, timeout = EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS) {
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/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
L23: join(home, '.local/bin/claude'),
L24: join(home, '.claude/local/claude'),
L25: '/usr/local/bin/claude',
...
L256: 
L257: const { mkdirSync, copyFileSync } = await import('fs');
L258: mkdirSync(vendorDir, { recursive: true });
L259: copyFileSync(join(xtermDir, 'css', 'xterm.css'), join(vendorDir, 'xterm.css'));
L260: 
...
L269: // Fallback: copy unminified
L270: copyFileSync(join(xtermDir, 'lib', 'xterm.js'), join(vendorDir, 'xterm.min.js'));
L271: copyFileSync(join(fitDir, 'lib', 'addon-fit.js'), join(vendorDir, 'xterm-addon-fit.min.js'));
L272: copyFileSync(join(serializeDir, 'lib', 'addon-serialize.js'), join(vendorDir, 'xterm-addon-serialize.min.js'));
```

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: scripts/postinstall.js spawns dist/web/public/vendor/xterm-addon-webgl.min.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L7: 
L8: import { execSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
L9: import { existsSync } from 'fs';
...
L20: // Claude CLI search paths (must match src/session.ts)
L21: const home = homedir();
L22: const CLAUDE_SEARCH_PATHS = [
...
L33: 
L34: const useColor = process.stdout.isTTY && !process.env.NO_COLOR;
L35: 
...
L83: const ok = await new Promise((resolve) => {
L84: const conn = net.createConnection({ port, host: '127.0.0.1' });
L85: conn.once('connect', () => { conn.destroy(); resolve(true); });
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/self-update.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js -> dist/cli.js -> dist/web/server.js -> dist/web/self-update.js
L23: */
L24: import { spawn, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
L25: import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, renameSync, copyFileSync, chmodSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L33: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
L34: const { version: APP_VERSION } = require('../../package.json');
L35: /** systemd unit name (matches install.sh + scripts/codeman-web.service). */
...
L200: return null;
L201: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(STATUS_FILE, 'utf-8'));
L202: }
...
L222: // ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
L223: /** Run a command, returning trimmed stdout, or null on any error. */
L224: function tryExe
```

### 14. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L262: try {
L263: execSync(`npx esbuild "${join(xtermDir, 'lib', 'xterm.js')}" --minify --outfile="${join(vendorDir, 'xterm.min.js')}"`, { stdio: 'pipe' });
L264: execSync(`npx esbuild "${join(fitDir, 'lib', 'addon-fit.js')}" --minify --outfile="${join(vendorDir, 'xterm-addon-fit.min.js')}"`, { stdio: 'pipe' });
```

### 15. Low: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 60.0%

Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Wasm Module
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/public/gesture/wasm/vision\_wasm\_nosimd\_internal.wasm
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/public/gesture/wasm/vision_wasm_nosimd_internal.wasm>)

Package ships WebAssembly modules.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/web/public/gesture/wasm/vision_wasm_nosimd_internal.wasm
kind = wasm_module
sizeBytes = 9448638
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 16631
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/aicodeman@1.12.2/dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/web/public/i18n.0fbea500.js.br
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 16631
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 22. 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:** 22
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 25
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 24

### Published dependency entries
- @fastify/compress ^8.3.1 (Dependency)
- @fastify/cookie ^11.0.2 (Dependency)
- @fastify/multipart ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- @fastify/static ^9.1.3 (Dependency)
- @fastify/websocket ^11.2.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-fit ^0.11.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-serialize ^0.14.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-unicode11 ^0.9.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-webgl ^0.19.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/xterm ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- fastify ^5.8.5 (Dependency)
- heic-decode ^2.1.0 (Dependency)
- jpeg-js ^0.4.4 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency)
- uuid ^14.0.0 (Dependency)
- web-push ^3.6.7 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)
- @remotion/compositor-linux-x64-gnu ^4.0.432 (OptionalDependency)
- @rspack/binding-linux-x64-gnu ^1.7.7 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** aicodeman
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.12.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T11:49:17.994Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T07:10:18.931Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T18:48:16.536Z
- **Known versions:** 69
- **Latest version:** 1.44.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mission control for AI coding agents - run 20 autonomous agents with real-time monitoring and session persistence
- **Author:** arkon
- **Maintainers:** ark0n
- **Keywords:** claude-code, claude-ai, claude, anthropic, opencode, codex, antigravity, gemini-cli, ai-agents, agent, session-manager, self-hosted
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 897
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 36,451,406 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/aicodeman/v/1.12.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/issues>)
