---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigpowers/v/2.88.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigpowers/v/2.88.6.md"
package: "bigpowers"
report_status: "published"
title: "bigpowers@2.88.6 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "2.88.6"
---

# bigpowers@2.88.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 17 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:** 2.88.6
- **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 inspection shows an interactive agent-skill installer rather than an automatic lifecycle payload. The flagged runtime npm command is limited to an explicit global update action, and the dashboard defaults to loopback.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-13T15:38:52.669Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-13T15:40:07.098Z
- **Download time:** 767 ms
- **Static scan time:** 821 ms
- **AI review time:** 72840 ms
- **Total time:** 74429 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 automatic attack surface was found. Agent configuration changes require an explicit interactive setup command and confirmation.

- **Trigger:** A user explicitly runs the setup, update, or dashboard command.

- **Impact:** The selected tool configuration can receive package-managed skill links; no unconsented install-time mutation or data exfiltration was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-13T15:40:07.098Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Interactive symlink-based agent-skill installation and loopback dashboard serving.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection shows an interactive agent-skill installer rather than an automatic lifecycle payload. The flagged runtime npm command is limited to an explicit global update action, and the dashboard defaults to loopback.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest has no npm lifecycle hook; its setup command is user-invoked., The update path runs npm only after an explicit update command and global-install check., Setup asks the user to confirm before installing to selected runtimes., The installer refuses to replace destinations unless they are package-managed symlinks., The Gemini hook only delegates to the packaged git guard., The dashboard defaults to a loopback address and local session directory.

- **Evidence against:** No install-time execution, self-dependency, secret harvesting, or exfiltration was found., The AI-agent configuration changes are part of an interactive, user-selected setup flow., The local HTTP server is not an external network endpoint by default.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to bigpowers@2.88.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of bigpowers@2.88.6 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/bigpowers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/bin/bigpowers.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: 
L6: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L7: const fs = require('fs');
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/bigpowers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/bin/bigpowers.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: 
L6: const { execSync } = require('child_process');
L7: const fs = require('fs');
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const crypto = require('crypto');
L2: const http = require('http');
L3: const fs = require('fs');
...
L11: function computeAcceptKey(clientKey) {
L12: return crypto.createHash('sha1').update(clientKey + WS_MAGIC).digest('base64');
L13: }
...
L75: 
L76: const PORT = process.env.BIGPOWERS_DASHBOARD_PORT || (49152 + Math.floor(Math.random() * 16383));
L77: const HOST = process.env.BIGPOWERS_DASHBOARD_HOST || '127.0.0.1';
...
L100: 
L101: const frameTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'frame-template.html'), 'utf-8');
L102: const helperScript = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'helper.js'), 'utf-8');
```

### 6. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 7. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/lib/install-helpers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/scripts/lib/install-helpers.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.
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
```

### 10. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/bigpowers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/bin/bigpowers.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: try {
L25: execSync(cmd, { cwd, stdio: 'inherit' });
L26: } catch (e) {
...
L31: 
L32: // True when this copy runs from the global npm install (not a git clone or npx temp dir).
L33: function isGlobalInstall() {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** .gemini/extensions/bigpowers/hooks/before-tool-git-guard.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/.gemini/extensions/bigpowers/hooks/before-tool-git-guard.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = .[redacted]-tool-git-guard.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 669
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** .gemini/extensions/bigpowers/hooks/before-tool-git-guard.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/.gemini/extensions/bigpowers/hooks/before-tool-git-guard.sh>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = .[redacted]-tool-git-guard.sh
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 669
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. Critical: Trigger Reachable Excluded Directory Payload
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Path:** scripts/lib/install-helpers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/scripts/lib/install-helpers.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-reachable source explicitly loads and activates an executable-looking payload from a test, fixture, or hidden path.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = scripts/lib/install-helpers.js
kind = trigger_reachable_excluded_payload
sizeBytes = 29742
triggerReachableSource = scripts/lib/install-helpers.js
excludedPayload = .[redacted]-tool-git-guard.sh
```

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/bigpowers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/bin/bigpowers.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 5
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigpowers@2.88.6/skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = bigpowers@2.44.0
matchedPath = skills/visual-dashboard/scripts/server.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:YmlncG93ZXJz:2.44.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts ^0.10.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- js-yaml ^4.1.0 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- remark-frontmatter ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- remark-parse ^11.0.0 (Dependency)
- unified ^11.0.5 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.24.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** bigpowers
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.88.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-13T15:37:33.924Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T11:03:02.041Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T20:37:50.121Z
- **Known versions:** 56
- **Latest version:** 2.88.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 73 agent skills synthesizing 17 years of software engineering discipline into a prescriptive methodology for solo developers
- **Author:** Daniel
- **Maintainers:** danielvm
- **Keywords:** skills, agents, claude, development, spec-driven, test-first, pi-package
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 2073
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 11,176,725 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigpowers/v/2.88.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers/issues>)
