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package: "autopilot-ai"
report_status: "published"
title: "autopilot-ai@2.7.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.7.2"
---

# autopilot-ai@2.7.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 23 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:** 2.7.2
- **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.

The package is a terminal coding agent whose CLI, provider integrations, and command capabilities align with its stated purpose. The inspected evidence does not confirm the scanner’s claims of credential theft, DNS exfiltration, or concealed remote execution.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 85.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-29T07:15:34.443Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-29T07:16:30.646Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8858 ms
- **AI review time:** 47083 ms
- **Total time:** 56203 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 package source; network access and command execution serve the coding-agent and provider features.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when invoked; library code runs when imported or called by a consumer.

- **Impact:** No unauthorized credential transfer, harmful automatic action, or concealed remote execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-29T07:16:30.646Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code configures named AI providers and enables telemetry only when an endpoint is supplied.

- **Rationale:** The package is a terminal coding agent whose CLI, provider integrations, and command capabilities align with its stated purpose. The inspected evidence does not confirm the scanner’s claims of credential theft, DNS exfiltration, or concealed remote execution.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 85.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a CLI and library entry points and has no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook; its only lifecycle script is prepublishOnly, which builds the package., The CLI entry imports dist/index.js, where the main routine starts the application and initializes telemetry., Telemetry has no default endpoint: it remains disabled unless KIMIFLARE\_OTEL\_ENDPOINT or an explicit endpoint is provided., The Vercel AI Gateway URL appears as one provider configuration alongside its required AI\_GATEWAY\_API\_KEY and Vercel key setup URL.

- **Evidence against:** The bundle includes command execution, environment access, DNS resolution, and dynamic evaluation, but the inspected examples fit application features such as Git operations, network safety checks, and an isolated user-code sandbox., The scanner reports credential exfiltration and remote execution, but the inspected provider and telemetry excerpts do not substantiate those claims.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to autopilot-ai@2.7.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of autopilot-ai@2.7.2 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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11567: if (lower === "cmd") {
L11568: return { shell: process.env.COMSPEC || "cmd.exe", args: ["/c"], isPosix: false };
L11569: }
```

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

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5677: async function rotateJsonl(path, maxBytes, rotations) {
L5678: const { rename: rename6 } = await import("fs/promises");
L5679: let s;
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/autopilot-ai@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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((resolve25, 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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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");
...
L7545: - 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...
L7546: - 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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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@2.7.2/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.

## 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 ^0.1.30 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- camouflage-tui ^2.8.3 (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:** 2.7.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-29T07:10:21.994Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-25T21:41:14.681Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T18:23:33.702Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 3.9.0
- **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: ^22.23.4 || ^24.22.1 || \>=26.12.1
- **Artifact files:** 12
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,396,226 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/autopilot-ai/v/2.7.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/directionally-local/autopilot>)
- [Homepage](<https://directionallylocal.com/autopilot/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/directionally-local/autopilot/issues>)