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

# autopilot-ai@2.4.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 24 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:** 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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source inspection found no malicious behavior supporting the scanner’s labels. The apparent credential transfer belongs to an explicitly invoked inbox feature, telemetry requires a supplied endpoint, and the package has no install hook.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-23T08:45:07.529Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-23T08:46:27.897Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8593 ms
- **AI review time:** 71268 ms
- **Total time:** 80368 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 confirmed attack surface was identified. The flagged network, evaluation, and command capabilities appear in package-aligned agent features or require explicit configuration or user interaction.

- **Trigger:** The CLI starts for normal use; telemetry requires a configured endpoint, while inbox access requires the user to open the inbox and submit its form.

- **Impact:** These inspected paths support intended product behavior; they do not establish covert credential theft, automatic installation activity, or hidden remote code execution.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-23T08:46:27.897Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inbox sends the handle and secret supplied in its form to the inbox service. Telemetry sends logs only after an endpoint is configured.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection found no malicious behavior supporting the scanner’s labels. The apparent credential transfer belongs to an explicitly invoked inbox feature, telemetry requires a supplied endpoint, and the package has no install hook.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/index.js, dist/sdk/index.js, dist/sdk/index.d.ts, .lpm-dependency-evidence-425ef879-c3c1-4fca-bd19-c88348115258/0/npm-linux/package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-425ef879-c3c1-4fca-bd19-c88348115258/0/npm-linux/dist/index.js, .lpm-dependency-evidence-425ef879-c3c1-4fca-bd19-c88348115258/1/npm-linux/package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-425ef879-c3c1-4fca-bd19-c88348115258/2/npm-linux/package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-425ef879-c3c1-4fca-bd19-c88348115258/2/npm-linux/lib/index.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://hello.kimiflare.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json has no install hook; its prepublishOnly script runs the build, and it declares the package entrypoints and dependencies., OpenTelemetry export is disabled unless an endpoint is supplied through options or KIMIFLARE\_OTEL\_ENDPOINT; absent that, configuration remains null., The CLI’s inbox prompts for a handle and secret, then uses them to check the inbox; this is an explicit feature interaction., The SDK exports agent-session and run-management APIs as part of the package’s stated coding-agent purpose., The inspected dependency manifests identify the MCP and SQLite libraries; better-sqlite3’s install script is native prebuild or node-gyp setup.

- **Evidence against:** The inbox sends the entered handle and secret to a fixed service endpoint, but the source ties this transfer to the user-requested inbox flow., The bundle contains isolated evaluation and shell execution capabilities for agent features; the inspected excerpts do not show an automatic install-time trigger or hidden payload execution.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to autopilot-ai@2.4.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of autopilot-ai@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. 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@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10929: if (lower === "cmd") {
L10930: return { shell: process.env.COMSPEC || "cmd.exe", args: ["/c"], isPosix: false };
L10931: }
```

### 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@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5643: async function rotateJsonl(path, maxBytes, rotations) {
L5644: const { rename: rename5 } = await import("fs/promises");
L5645: let s;
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: function defaultLogDir() {
L42: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L43: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L58: if (currentStream) {
L59: currentStream.end();
L60: currentStream = null;
...
L188: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L189: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L190: }
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 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/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/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
L1061: const creds = JSON.parse(await readFile(file, "utf8"));
L1062: const tokenUrl = creds.type === "service_account" ? creds.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token" : "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token";
L1063: const body = creds.type === "service_account" ? new URLSearchParams({ grant_type: "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer", assertion: signJwt(creds, now2) }) : new URLSearchP...
...
L1070: return new Promise((resolve24, reject) => {
L1071: execFile("gcloud", ["auth", "print-access-token"], { timeout: 15e3 }, (err, stdout) => {
L1072: if (err) reject(new Error("No Google credentials found. Run `gcloud auth application-default login`, or set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS."));
...
L1076: }
L1077: async function vertexAccessToken(fetchImpl2 = fetch, env = process.
```

### 12. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/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.
L41: function defaultLogDir() {
L42: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L43: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L58: if (currentStream) {
L59: currentStream.end();
L60: currentStream = null;
...
L188: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L189: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L190: }
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 13. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/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:
return id && PROVIDER_PRESETS[id].authHeader === "api-key" ? { "api-key": key } : { Authorization: `Bearer ${key}` };
baseUrl: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
baseUrl: "https://api.deepseek.com",
baseUrl: "https://api.moonshot.ai/v1",
baseUrl: "https://api.anthropic.com/v1",
baseUrl: "https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai",
baseUrl: "https://api.minimax.io/v1",
// Overridden per account by the API base /copilot_internal/user reports (providers.copilot.baseUrl).
```

### 14. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1055: const iat = Math.floor(now2 / 1e3);
L1056: const payload = enc({ iss: sa.client_email, scope: SCOPE, aud: sa.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", iat, exp: iat + 3600 });
L1057: const signature = createSign("RSA-SHA256").update(`${header}.${payload}`).sign(sa.private_key).toString("base64url");
...
L1062: const tokenUrl = creds.type === "service_account" ? creds.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token" : "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token";
L1063: const body = creds.type === "service_account" ? new URLSearchParams({ grant_type: "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer", assertion: signJwt(creds, now2) }) : new URLSearchP...
L1064: const res = await fetchImpl2(tokenUrl, { method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" },
```

### 15. Critical: Dns Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: function defaultLogDir() {
L42: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L43: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L58: if (currentStream) {
L59: currentStream.end();
L60: currentStream = null;
...
L188: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L189: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L190: }
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 16. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L563: protocol: "openai-responses",
L564: baseUrl: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
L565: apiKeyEnv: ["OPENAI_API_KEY"],
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
...
L1005: const dir = env.CLOUDSDK_CONFIG || join2(homedir2(), ".config", "gcloud");
L1006: const active = existsSync(join2(dir, "active_config")) ? readFileSync(join2(dir, "active_config"), "utf8").trim() : "default";
L1007: const ini = readFileSync(join2(dir, "configurations", `config_${active || "default"}`), "utf8");
...
L7385: - 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...
L7386: - Prefer resolvi
```

### 17. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: function defaultLogDir() {
L42: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L43: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L58: if (currentStream) {
L59: currentStream.end();
L60: currentStream = null;
...
L188: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L189: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L190: }
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 18. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/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.
L41: function defaultLogDir() {
L42: const xdg = process.env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME || join(homedir(), ".config");
L43: return join(xdg, "kimiflare", "logs");
...
L58: if (currentStream) {
L59: currentStream.end();
L60: currentStream = null;
...
L188: function setFetchForTesting(f) {
L189: fetchImpl = f ?? ((url, init) => fetch(url, init));
L190: }
...
L989: import { createSign } from "crypto";
L990: import { execFile } from "child_process";
L991: import { readFile } from "fs/promises";
```

### 19. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/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
L1055: const iat = Math.floor(now2 / 1e3);
L1056: const payload = enc({ iss: sa.client_email, scope: SCOPE, aud: sa.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", iat, exp: iat + 3600 });
L1057: const signature = createSign("RSA-SHA256").update(`${header}.${payload}`).sign(sa.private_key).toString("base64url");
...
L1062: const tokenUrl = creds.type === "service_account" ? creds.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token" : "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token";
L1063: const body = creds.type === "service_account" ? new URLSearchParams({ grant_type: "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer", assertion: signJwt(creds, now2) }) : new URLSearchP...
L1064: const res = await fetchImpl2(tokenUrl, { method: "POST", headers
```

### 20. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/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/index.js
L1055: const iat = Math.floor(now2 / 1e3);
L1056: const payload = enc({ iss: sa.client_email, scope: SCOPE, aud: sa.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", iat, exp: iat + 3600 });
L1057: const signature = createSign("RSA-SHA256").update(`${header}.${payload}`).sign(sa.private_key).toString("base64url");
...
L1062: const tokenUrl = creds.type === "service_account" ? creds.token_uri ?? "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token" : "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token";
L1063: const body = creds.type === "service_account" ? new URLSearchParams({ grant_type: "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer", assertion: signJwt(creds, now2) }) : new URLSearchP...
L1064: const res = await fetchImpl2(tokenUr
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 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.

### 24. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/sdk/index.d.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.4.1/dist/sdk/index.d.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = autopilot-ai@2.4.0
matchedIdentity = npm:YXV0b3BpbG90LWFp:2.4.0
similarity = 0.800
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 13
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @hotcell/sdk ^0.1.23 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- camouflage-tui ^2.8.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- imapflow 2.2.5 (Dependency)
- ink ^7.1.1 (Dependency)
- jpeg-js ^0.4.4 (Dependency)
- pngjs ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- postal-mime 4.0.4 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.0 (Dependency)
- turndown ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- uqr 0.1.3 (Dependency)
- @resvg/resvg-js ^2.6.2 (OptionalDependency)
- isolated-vm ^6.1.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** autopilot-ai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.4.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-23T08:41:21.489Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-25T21:41:14.681Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T02:30:50.751Z
- **Known versions:** 41
- **Latest version:** 3.10.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** autopilot (formerly kimiflare): a terminal coding agent for any model with your own key: OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, Vertex, Ollama and more. Per-turn cost, web search, GitHub, headless browser, LSP, MCP, local memory.
- **Maintainers:** sinameraji
- **Keywords:** autopilot, kimiflare, ai, cli, coding-agent, terminal, kimi, openrouter, vision, image-understanding, llm, code-generation
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,190,470 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autopilot-ai/v/2.4.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/sinameraji/autopilot>)
- [Homepage](<https://directionallylocal.com/autopilot/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sinameraji/autopilot/issues>)
