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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autopilot-ai/v/1.23.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autopilot-ai/v/1.23.0.md"
package: "autopilot-ai"
report_status: "published"
title: "autopilot-ai@1.23.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "1.23.0"
---

# autopilot-ai@1.23.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 25 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.23.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Static hints point to network, evaluation, and dynamic-loading primitives, but inspected source ties them to provider use, a user-submitted inbox request, and isolated caller-supplied code. No concrete attack behavior was established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-17T10:23:21.123Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-17T10:24:37.031Z
- **Download time:** 1300 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7214 ms
- **AI review time:** 67393 ms
- **Total time:** 75908 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:** No attack was identified in the inspected source. The flagged network and dynamic execution behavior is tied to provider requests, an explicit inbox action, or isolated caller-supplied code.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when invoked; inbox requests occur after the user submits the inbox form.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unauthorized data transfer, remote code execution, or other attack effect was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-17T10:24:37.031Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Provider calls use configured service endpoints, inbox credentials are collected for the inbox feature, and tool calls from isolated code pass through a permission executor.

- **Rationale:** Static hints point to network, evaluation, and dynamic-loading primitives, but inspected source ties them to provider use, a user-submitted inbox request, and isolated caller-supplied code. No concrete attack behavior was established.

- **Files touched:** package.json, bin/autopilot.mjs, dist/index.js, dist/index.d.ts, dist/sdk/index.js, dist/sdk/index.d.ts

- **Network endpoints:** openrouter.ai, router.requesty.ai, hello.kimiflare.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exports the CLI and bundled runtime; its only publish lifecycle script runs a build., The CLI and SDK read bounded project context files and pass their contents into the agent context., The source configures OpenRouter and restricts Requesty endpoints to HTTPS hosts on its allowlist., The inbox asks the user for a handle and password-style secret, then sends them to the package's inbox service after submission., The code runner compiles caller-provided code in an isolated VM and routes tool calls through its permission executor., The root declaration exports no types; the SDK declaration contains API types rather than executable code.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to autopilot-ai@1.23.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of autopilot-ai@1.23.0 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. 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:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1131: // src/remote/deploy.ts
L1132: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L1133: import { join as join7, dirname as dirname4 } from "path";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7759: if (lower === "cmd") {
L7760: return { shell: process.env.COMSPEC || "cmd.exe", args: ["/c"], isPosix: false };
L7761: }
```

### 5. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2995: async function rotateJsonl(path, maxBytes, rotations) {
L2996: const { rename: rename3 } = await import("fs/promises");
L2997: let s;
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/sdk/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/sdk/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6553: const { command, env: coauthorEnv } = isPosix ? injectCoauthor(args.command, ctx.coauthor) : { command: args.command, env: {} };
L6554: return new Promise((resolve6, reject) => {
L6555: logger.debug("bash:spawn", { command: args.command.slice(0, 200), cwd: ctx.cwd, shell });
L6556: const child = spawn(shell, [...shellArgs, command], {
L6557: cwd: ctx.cwd,
L6558: env: {
L6559: ...process.env,
L6560: ...coauthorEnv,
```

### 12. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
import { readFile, mkdir, writeFile, chmod } from "fs/promises";
const baseUrl = process.env.KIMIFLARE_BASE_URL ?? persisted.baseUrl;
const requesty = !!requestyApiKey && !openrouterApiKey && !baseUrl;
if (!openrouterApiKey && !baseUrl && !requestyApiKey) return null;
baseUrl,
await writeFile(p, JSON.stringify(next, null, 2), "utf8");
await writeFile(p, JSON.stringify(merged, null, 2), "utf8");
await writeFile(p, JSON.stringify(cfg, null, 2), "utf8");
```

### 14. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/sdk/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/sdk/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6553: const { command, env: coauthorEnv } = isPosix ? injectCoauthor(args.command, ctx.coauthor) : { command: args.command, env: {} };
L6554: return new Promise((resolve6, reject) => {
L6555: logger.debug("bash:spawn", { command: args.command.slice(0, 200), cwd: ctx.cwd, shell });
L6556: const child = spawn(shell, [...shellArgs, command], {
L6557: cwd: ctx.cwd,
...
L6563: });
L6564: child.stdin?.end();
L6565: let stdout = "";
L6566: let stderr = "";
```

### 15. Critical: Dns Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material through DNS lookups.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

### 16. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

### 17. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L665: const openrouterApiKey = process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY || process.env.KIMIFLARE_OPENROUTER_KEY || persisted.openrouterApiKey || persisted.providerKeys?.openrouter || void 0;
L666: const baseUrl = process.env.KIMIFLARE_BASE_URL ?? persisted.baseUrl;
L667: const apiKey = process.env.KIMIFLARE_API_KEY ?? persisted.apiKey;
...
L955: try {
L956: const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
L957: cachedVersion = pkg.version ?? "0.0.0";
...
L1131: // src/remote/deploy.ts
L1132: import { execSync } from "child_process";
L1133: import { join as join7, dirname as dirname4 } from "path";
...
L4667: - Treat blockers as problems to work through, not as a stopping point. After an error or failed attempt, diagnose the cause and try a safe, materially different recovery or verific...
L4668:
```

### 18. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

### 19. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.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: dist/index.js spawns dist/sdk/index.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L68: function defaultLogDir() {
L69: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L70: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L85: if (currentStream) {
L86: currentStream.end();
L87: currentStream = null;
...
L204: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L205: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L206: }
...
L660: const raw = await readFile(configPath(), "utf8");
L661: persisted = JSON.parse(raw);
L662: hasFile = true;
```

### 20. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.exports -> dist/index.js
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 21. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/sdk/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/sdk/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.exports -> dist/sdk/index.js
L6553: const { command, env: coauthorEnv } = isPosix ? injectCoauthor(args.command, ctx.coauthor) : { command: args.command, env: {} };
L6554: return new Promise((resolve6, reject) => {
L6555: logger.debug("bash:spawn", { command: args.command.slice(0, 200), cwd: ctx.cwd, shell });
L6556: const child = spawn(shell, [...shellArgs, command], {
L6557: cwd: ctx.cwd,
...
L6563: });
L6564: child.stdin?.end();
L6565: let stdout = "";
L6566: let stderr = "";
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 24. 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.

### 25. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/sdk/index.d.ts\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@1.23.0/dist/sdk/index.d.ts%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 = 1
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 16

### Published dependency entries
- @hotcell/sdk ^0.1.23 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @resvg/resvg-js ^2.6.2 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.9.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- ink ^7.0.1 (Dependency)
- ink-select-input ^6.2.0 (Dependency)
- ink-spinner ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- ink-text-input ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode ^1.5.4 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.0 (Dependency)
- turndown ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.7.2 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver-protocol ^3.17.5 (Dependency)
- camouflage-tui ^2.6.1 (OptionalDependency)
- isolated-vm ^6.1.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** autopilot-ai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.23.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-17T10:15:35.837Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-25T21:41:14.681Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T05:29:49.140Z
- **Known versions:** 43
- **Latest version:** 3.12.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** autopilot (formerly kimiflare): a terminal coding agent that runs any OpenRouter model with your own key. Per-turn billed cost, web search, GitHub, headless browser, LSP, MCP, local memory.
- **Maintainers:** sinameraji
- **Keywords:** autopilot, kimiflare, ai, cli, coding-agent, terminal, kimi, k2.6, openrouter, vision, image-understanding, llm
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,792,009 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autopilot-ai/v/1.23.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sinameraji/autopilot>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sinameraji/autopilot#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sinameraji/autopilot/issues>)
