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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alink-cli/v/0.8.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alink-cli/v/0.8.8.md"
package: "alink-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "alink-cli@0.8.8 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.8.8"
---

# alink-cli@0.8.8 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:** 0.8.8
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-20T11:26:53.699Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-20T11:28:26.295Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6894 ms
- **AI review time:** 85195 ms
- **Total time:** 92596 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Running the CLI can expose a local coding-agent daemon through an authenticated AgentLink hub tunnel. This is an explicit remote-control capability, not install-time behavior.

- **Trigger:** User runs alink-cli or alink-cli --no-tui.

- **Impact:** A hub-authorized remote client can operate the locally configured coding-agent service.

- **Evidence paths:** README.md, package.json, bin/agentlink.js, bin/agentlink-account.js, bin/agentlink-prompts.js, dist/bin.mjs, dist/ui.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-20T11:28:26.295Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Launches a local daemon and tunnels its RPC over WebSocket.

- **Rationale:** The package is not malicious by source evidence, but it intentionally provides remote control of local coding agents and therefore warrants a user-visible warning.

- **Files touched:** bin/agentlink.js, dist/bin.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** wss://link.harmopath.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** CLI is explicitly a remote-control tool for local coding agents., User-invoked startup spawns the bundled daemon with hub credentials., Daemon opens an authenticated WebSocket tunnel to the configured hub.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., Credential files are package-owned AgentLink state and use mode 0600., Reported UI decode path is an embedded WebAssembly asset, not fetched JavaScript execution., No credential harvesting or foreign AI-agent configuration writes found.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/NodeSocket-08w4osAf.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alink-cli@0.8.8/dist/NodeSocket-08w4osAf.mjs>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 4864
matchedText = url.valu...ED";
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/agentlink.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alink-cli@0.8.8/bin/agentlink.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/agentlink.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alink-cli@0.8.8/bin/agentlink.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L164: async function printQr(text) {
L165: const { renderQr } = await import(new URL("../dist/qr.js", import.meta.url));
L166: renderQr(text);
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/ui.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alink-cli@0.8.8/dist/ui.js>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L317: "use strict";
L318: if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "production") {
L319: (function() {
...
L545: isMounted: ["isMounted", "Instead, make sure to clean up subscriptions and pending requests in componentWillUnmount to prevent memory leaks."],
L546: replaceState: ["replaceState", "Refactor your code to use setState instead (see https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/3236)."]
L547: };
...
L2209: ];
L2210: if (process.platform !== "win32") {
L2211: module.exports.push(
...
L2357: }
L2358: process13.exitCode = code || /* istanbul ignore next */
L2359: 0;
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/agentlink.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alink-cli@0.8.8/bin/agentlink.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: bin/agentlink.js spawns dist/ui.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
...
L8: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
L9: import WebSocket from "ws";
L10: 
...
L26: }
L27: const saved = JSON.parse(raw);
L28: return saved.hub === normalizeHub(hub) && typeof saved.jwt === "string" ? saved.jwt : undefined;
...
L57: 
L58: const OFFICIAL_HUB = process.env.AGENTLINK_DEFAULT_HUB || "wss://link.harmopath.com";
L59: const STATE_DIR = process.env.AGENTLINK_STATE_DIR || join(homedir(), ".agentlink");
```

### 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.

### 13. 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:** No

- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @agentclientprotocol/codex-acp 1.1.9 (Dependency)
- @agentclientprotocol/sdk ^1.3.0 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.3.170 (Dependency)
- @cloudbase/js-sdk ^3.8.0 (Dependency)
- @effect/platform-node 4.0.0-beta.103 (Dependency)
- @effect/platform-node-shared 4.0.0-beta.103 (Dependency)
- @ff-labs/fff-node 0.9.4 (Dependency)
- @zed-industries/claude-code-acp 0.16.2 (Dependency)
- effect 4.0.0-beta.103 (Dependency)
- ink ^5.2.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- react ^18.3.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.0 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** alink-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.8.8
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-20T10:13:51.186Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-11T09:43:45.231Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T03:47:48.209Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 0.10.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 一条命令把工作机接入 AgentLink，随时随地遥控本机的编码 agent。One command to link your machine to AgentLink and control your coding agents from anywhere.
- **Maintainers:** blackstone\_99
- **Keywords:** acp, agent-client-protocol, claude-code, cli, codex, coding-agent, remote-control, self-hosted
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.16 || ^23.11 || \>=24.10
- **Artifact files:** 26
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 22,124,513 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alink-cli/v/0.8.8>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/baichen99/agentlink>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/baichen99/agentlink#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/baichen99/agentlink/issues>)