---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/analyzthis_design/v/2.4.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/analyzthis_design/v/2.4.1.md"
package: "analyzthis_design"
report_status: "published"
title: "analyzthis_design@2.4.1 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.4.1"
---

# analyzthis\_design@2.4.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 2.4.1
- **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.

This is a first-party agent extension installer with automatic MCP configuration after an explicit CLI invocation. Its install-time hook is inert, so the source does not establish malicious install-hook abuse.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T15:44:18.389Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T15:45:12.327Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2005 ms
- **AI review time:** 51425 ms
- **Total time:** 53938 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:** A user-invoked default CLI installation copies AI-agent skill files and adds an MCP server configuration for some supported hosts. The install lifecycle itself only prints a message.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the package CLI with no command or with install.

- **Impact:** It changes AI-agent skill and MCP control surfaces after the user invokes the package command.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/bin/cli.js, dist/lib/install.js, dist/lib/mcp-server.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T15:45:12.327Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** First-party AI-agent extension installation and MCP configuration.

- **Rationale:** This is a first-party agent extension installer with automatic MCP configuration after an explicit CLI invocation. Its install-time hook is inert, so the source does not establish malicious install-hook abuse.

- **Files touched:** ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.claude/skills, ~/.claude/commands, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.grok/skills, ~/.codeium/windsurf/skills, ~/.agents/skills, ~/.cursor/mcp.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The default CLI action runs the installer, which copies package skills into AI-tool directories., The installer automatically writes an MCP server entry into Cursor, Claude, and Windsurf configuration after a user invokes installation., The package can send prompts to configured LLM providers only during user-invoked runtime commands using supplied environment keys.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall hook only prints usage guidance and does not invoke the installer., No install-time network request, credential harvesting, payload download, or shell execution was found., Feedback submission requires configured settings and affirmative consent before sending data.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to analyzthis\_design@2.4.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of analyzthis\_design@2.4.1 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/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "console.log('\n  analyzthis_design installed. Run: npx analyzthis_design --target all\n  Or: npx analyzthis_design welcome\n')"
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "console.log('\n  analyzthis_design installed. Run: npx analyzthis_design --target all\n  Or: npx analyzthis_design welcome\n')"
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/dist/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: 
L4: const path = require('path');
L5: const os   = require('os');
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/query-expander.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/dist/lib/query-expander.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: 
L10: var PACKAGE_ROOT = resolvePackageRoot(__dirname);
L11: var AGENTS_DIR = path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, 'agents');
...
L15: if (!fs.existsSync(CONFIG_FILE)) return {};
L16: try { return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(CONFIG_FILE, 'utf8')); }
L17: catch { return {}; }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/dist/lib/install.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
esync(srcpath, destpath);
  }
}

function installflat(skill, skillsdir, force) {
  const src = path.join(package_skills_dir, skill, 'skill.md');
  const dest = path.join(skillsdir, `${skill}.md`);
  if (!fs.existssync(src)) return 'missing';
  if (fs.existssync(dest) && !force) return 'skipped';
  try {
    fs.mkdirsync(skillsdir, { recursive: true });
    fs.copyfilesync(src, dest);
    return 'installed';
  } catch {
    return 'error';
  }
}

function installdir(skill, skillsdir, force) {
  const src = path.join(package_skills_dir, skill);
  const dest = path.join(skillsdir, skill);
  if (!fs.existssync(src)) return 'missing';
  if (fs.existssync(dest) && !force) return 'skip
```

### 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:** 90.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib/feedback-submit.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/dist/lib/feedback-submit.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 3
```

### 15. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/analyzthis_design@2.4.1/dist/bin/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = analyzthis_design@2.3.0
matchedIdentity = npm:YW5hbHl6dGhpc19kZXNpZ24:2.3.0
similarity = 0.825
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** analyzthis\_design
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.4.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T09:54:41.920Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-18T04:56:47.493Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-09T18:15:14.976Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 2.5.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 8 AI design personas — v2.2 project-scoped knowledge bank (no cross-project vault entanglement), v2.0 chunked execution with frontier planner + free/cheap chunk models, adversarial deliberation loops, opt-in community feedback, Kavi knowledge collection,
- **Author:** Rishikesh Joshi
- **Maintainers:** rishikesh\_analyzthis
- **Keywords:** cursor, cursor-skill, claude, claude-command, codex, grok, windsurf, agent-skills, ai-persona, ux, design, design-critic
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16
- **Artifact files:** 250
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,925,398 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/analyzthis_design/v/2.4.1>)
