---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alvin-bot/v/5.71.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alvin-bot/v/5.71.0.md"
package: "alvin-bot"
report_status: "published"
title: "alvin-bot@5.71.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "5.71.0"
---

# alvin-bot@5.71.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 23 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:** 5.71.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Explicit CLI startup on macOS can create package-owned launchd persistence plus a watchdog that restarts the bot. The package is obfuscated, which limits auditability, but no unconsented install-time attack chain is established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-31T22:25:43.938Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-31T22:26:13.284Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3542 ms
- **AI review time:** 25297 ms
- **Total time:** 29346 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Explicit CLI startup on macOS can create package-owned launchd persistence plus a watchdog that restarts the bot. The package is obfuscated, which limits auditability, but no unconsented install-time attack chain is established.

- **Trigger:** User runs alvin-bot start or alvin-bot launchd install.

- **Impact:** The bot and its child tools may run persistently in the user login session.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/cli.js, dist/middleware/auth.js, dist/index.js, install.sh

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-31T22:26:13.284Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Package-owned launchd persistence and user-invoked external-tool installation.

- **Rationale:** No malicious npm lifecycle behavior or concrete exfiltration chain was found. Flag as a warning because obfuscated runtime code combined with explicit persistent agent setup is a meaningful dangerous capability.

- **Files touched:** bin/cli.js, dist/index.js, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.alvinbot.app.plist, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.alvinbot.deadman.plist

- **Network endpoints:** https://ollama.com/install.sh, https://claude.ai/install.sh

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** dist/ is deliberately obfuscated, including anti-analysis wrappers., bin/cli.js writes a launchd plist and optional deadman watcher under ~/Library/LaunchAgents., The launchd flow runs the bot at login and restarts it when its heartbeat is stale., bin/cli.js can install external tools via curl and npm, but only from explicit CLI/setup flows.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook; prepublishOnly is publisher-side., Persistence is reached through explicit alvin-bot start or launchd install commands., Launchd labels and program target are package-owned: com.alvinbot.app and dist/index.js., No source evidence found of hidden credential exfiltration, foreign AI-agent configuration writes, or install-time payload execution.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** claude-bridge/src/claude.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/claude-bridge/src/claude.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const { spawn } = require('child_process');
L4: const crypto = require('crypto');
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/providers/tool-executor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/dist/providers/tool-executor.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const _0x58b2fb=_0x5abc,_0x10f1ae=_0x5abc;(function(_0x258311,_0xa95a3){const _0x3d7510=_0x5abc,_0x4ba227=_0x5abc,_0x35260d=_0x258311();while(!![]){try{const _0x582824=-parseInt(_0...
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4332: const js = process.argv[5] || "document.title";
L4333: const result = await page.evaluate(new Function(`return (${js})`));
L4334: console.log(JSON.stringify({ url: page.url(), result }, null, 2));
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** claude-bridge/src/claude.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/claude-bridge/src/claude.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const { spawn } = require('child_process');
L4: const crypto = require('crypto');
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** claude-bridge/src/claude.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/claude-bridge/src/claude.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const { spawn } = require('child_process');
L4: const crypto = require('crypto');
L5: 
L6: const CLAUDE_BIN = process.env.CLAUDE_BIN || 'claude';
L7: 
...
L105: const SCRUB_WHITELIST = new Set([
L106: 'API_KEY', 'API_KEYS', 'API_URL', 'BASE_URL', 'BASE64',
L107: 'HTTP_GET', 'HTTP_POST', 'HTTP_PUT', 'HTTP_DELETE', 'HTTP_PATCH',
...
L293: 
L294: // Idle timeout: reset on every stdout activity.
L295: // Claude is alive as long as it produces output (tool calls, results, etc.)
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: import { homedir } from "os";
L23: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L24: import { initI18n, t, getLocale } from "../dist/i18n.js";
...
L28: // Data directory — same logic as src/paths.ts
L29: const DATA_DIR = process.env.ALVIN_DATA_DIR || join(homedir(), ".alvin-bot");
L30: 
...
L42: const ensureRL = () => {
L43: if (!rl) rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
L44: return rl;
...
L83: try {
L84: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname || ".", "../package.json"), "utf-8")).version;
L85: } catch { return ""; }
```

### 11. High: Entrypoint Build Divergence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

Manifest entrypoint contains risky behavior absent from dist/build output.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest entrypoint (manifest.bin) carries capability families absent from dist/build output: environment+network, sensitive-file+network, execution+network
L22: import { homedir } from "os";
L23: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L24: import { initI18n, t, getLocale } from "../dist/i18n.js";
...
L28: // Data directory — same logic as src/paths.ts
L29: const DATA_DIR = process.env.ALVIN_DATA_DIR || join(homedir(), ".alvin-bot");
L30: 
...
L42: const ensureRL = () => {
L43: if (!rl) rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
L44: return rl;
...
L83: try {
L84: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname || ".", "../package.json"), "utf-8")).version;
L85: } catch { return ""; }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 13. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1312: console.log(`\n  The Claude Agent SDK needs the native Claude Code binary.`);
L1313: console.log(`  Install with:\n    curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | sh`);
L1314: console.log(`  (npm install @anthropic-ai/claude-code is the alternative path.)\n`);
...
L1320: try {
L1321: execSync("curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | sh", { stdio: "inherit", timeout: 120_000 });
L1322: const localBin = join(homedir(), ".local", "bin");
L1323: if (!process.env.PATH.includes(localBin)) {
L1324: process.env.PATH = `${localBin}:${process.env.PATH || ""}`;
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: import { homedir } from "os";
L23: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L24: import { initI18n, t, getLocale } from "../dist/i18n.js";
...
L28: // Data directory — same logic as src/paths.ts
L29: const DATA_DIR = process.env.ALVIN_DATA_DIR || join(homedir(), ".alvin-bot");
L30: 
...
L42: const ensureRL = () => {
L43: if (!rl) rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
L44: return rl;
...
L83: try {
L84: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname || ".", "../package.json"), "utf-8")).version;
L85: } catch { return ""; }
```

### 15. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/middleware/auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/dist/middleware/auth.js>)

Source contains an obfuscator-style string-array loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: function _0x69a6(){const _0x15938e=['yxv0Ae1Vzgu','y29Kzq','[redacted]/','mJiZmJniwLjgz3K','DgvZDa','C2vHCMnO','C3vWzxjNCM91Ca','ywnJzxnZoM...
```

### 16. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.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/cli.js spawns dist/tui/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L22: import { homedir } from "os";
L23: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L24: import { initI18n, t, getLocale } from "../dist/i18n.js";
...
L28: // Data directory — same logic as src/paths.ts
L29: const DATA_DIR = process.env.ALVIN_DATA_DIR || join(homedir(), ".alvin-bot");
L30: 
...
L42: const ensureRL = () => {
L43: if (!rl) rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
L44: return rl;
...
L83: try {
L84: return JSON.parse(readFileSync(resolve(import.meta.dirname || ".", "../package.json"), "utf-8")).version;
L85: } catch { return ""; }
```

### 17. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/bin/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L296: install: () => {
L297: execSync("npm install -g playwright", { stdio: "inherit" });
L298: execSync("npx playwright install chromium", { stdio: "inherit" });
```

### 18. Medium: Protestware
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Package source has broad protestware-like patterns that need review.

### 19. High: Obfuscated
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package source appears deliberately obfuscated.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 22. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/alvin-bot@5.71.0/install.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = install.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 10656
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. 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:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 13
- **Optional dependencies:** 3
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 16

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.3.177 (Dependency)
- @grammyjs/runner ^2.0.3 (Dependency)
- @slack/bolt ^4.6.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.9.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.0 (Dependency)
- electron-updater ^6.8.3 (Dependency)
- express ^4.21.0 (Dependency)
- grammy ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- node-edge-tts ^1.2.10 (Dependency)
- pino ^10.3.1 (Dependency)
- playwright ^1.58.2 (Dependency)
- uuid ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency)
- @hapi/boom ^10.0.1 (OptionalDependency)
- @whiskeysockets/baileys ^6.7.21 (OptionalDependency)
- ffmpeg-static ^5.2.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** alvin-bot
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.71.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-19T14:19:57.503Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-31T22:24:05.278Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T15:29:52.400Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 5.101.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Open-source, self-hosted autonomous AI agent on Telegram, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, terminal & web. Claude Agent SDK + multi-provider engine with auto-failover, detached sub-agents, zero-config memory. Local-first, telemetry-free.
- **Author:** alvbln
- **Maintainers:** alvbln
- **Keywords:** telegram, bot, ai, claude, agent, ai-agent, autonomous-agent, llm, multi-model, gpt, gemini, nvidia
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 258
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,778,205 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/alvin-bot/v/5.71.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/alvbln/Alvin-Bot>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/alvbln/Alvin-Bot/issues>)