registry / bigpowers / 2.87.3

bigpowers@2.87.3

⚠ Under review

73 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers

Static Scan Results

scanned 11d ago · by rust-scanner

Static analysis flagged 16 finding(s) at 97.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Decision evidence

public snapshot

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShellWebSocket

Supply chain

HighEntropyStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

scanned 67 file(s), 230 KB of source

Source & flagged code

9 flagged

bin/bigpowers.jsView file

Lines 1-44javascript

1#!/usr/bin/env node

2// story: e38s08

3// bigpowers CLI — detects install state, runs setup on demand.

4// No npm lifecycle scripts needed → bypasses npm v10+ allow-scripts gate.

6const { execSync } = require('child_process');

7const fs = require('fs');

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

bin/bigpowers.jsView on unpkg · L5

Medium

Dynamic Require

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

bin/bigpowers.jsView on unpkg · L5

8const os = require('os');

9const path = require('path');

11const ROOT = path.dirname(path.dirname(__filename));

12const SKILLS_MARKER = path.join(os.homedir(), '.claude', 'skills', 'survey-context');

13const pkg = require(path.join(ROOT, 'package.json'));

15function isInstalled() {

16 try {

17 return fs.lstatSync(SKILLS_MARKER).isSymbolicLink();

18 } catch {

19 return false;

20 }

21}

23function run(cmd, cwd = ROOT) {

24 try {

25 execSync(cmd, { cwd, stdio: 'inherit' });

26 } catch (e) {

27 console.error(`\n❌ Failed: ${cmd}`);

28 process.exit(1);

29 }

30}

32// True when this copy runs from the global npm install (not a git clone or npx temp dir).

33function isGlobalInstall() {

High

Runtime Package Install

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

bin/bigpowers.jsView on unpkg · L24

34 try {

35 const globalRoot = execSync('npm root -g', { encoding: 'utf8' }).trim();

36 return globalRoot && ROOT.startsWith(globalRoot);

37 } catch {

38 return false;

39 }

40}

42// `bigpowers update` used to only re-sync the already-installed files, so it never fetched

43// a newer release. When we're the global install, pull the latest from npm first; the reinstall

44// overwrites ROOT in place, so the setup.js required afterwards is the freshly installed one.

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = bigpowers@2.58.0 matchedIdentity = npm:YmlncG93ZXJz:2.58.0 similarity = 0.684 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

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

bin/bigpowers.jsView on unpkg

skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1const crypto = require('crypto');

2const http = require('http');

3const fs =

scripts/lib/install-helpers.jsView file

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. in(rendereddir, f), path.join(targetdir, f)); } } } { const agentssrc = path.join(reporoot, 'agents.md'); const agentsdst = path.join(homedir, '.kilocode', 'agents.md'); fs.mkdirsync(path.dirname(agentsdst), { recursive: true }); if (fs.existssync(agentssrc)) fs.copyfilesync(agentssrc, agentsdst); } break; case 'trae': linkrenderedskills(path.join(reporoot, '.trae/skills'), path.join(homedir, '.trae', 'skills')); { const agentssrc = path.join(reporoot, 'agents.md'); const agentsdst = path.join(homedir, '.trae', 'agents.md'); fs.mkdirsync(path.dirname

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

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

scripts/lib/install-helpers.jsView on unpkg

tests/test_srp_engine.pyView file

•path = tests/test_srp_engine.py kind = payload_in_excluded_dir sizeBytes = 5396 magicHex = [redacted]

High

Payload In Excluded Dir

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

tests/test_srp_engine.pyView on unpkg

•path = tests/test_srp_engine.py kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 5396 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

tests/test_srp_engine.pyView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

9 flagged · loading source

bin/bigpowers.jsView file

Static Scan Results

Decision evidence

Source & flagged code

Source & flagged code

Findings

Source & flagged code