registry / AI-agent capability abuse / chemx / 26.9.14-1358

chemx@26.9.14-1358

Chemical X Protocol: Private drop-in architecture starter kit and capsule generator

AI Security Review

scanned 11d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The source supports a guarded, user-invoked agent configuration capability, so this warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. The inspected code does not establish install-time malware or credential exfiltration.

Static reason

No blocking static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

A user runs hook, install-hooks, or setup-ci and selects the agent query setup option.

Impact

The project's agent instructions are changed to prefer Chemx's search tool, which could influence how agents inspect project files.

Mechanism

The installer appends instructions telling AI agents to use Chemx search before broad searches, if AGENTS.md exists and lacks the directive marker.

AI rationale

Evidence

cli/installer.jsAGENTS.md

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 90.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The package has no install lifecycle hook; setup is routed through explicit hook, install-hooks, or setup-ci commands.
The installer offers a user-selected agent query setup that can append instructions directing AI agents to use Chemx search before broad file searches.
The AGENTS.md write is guarded: it only appends the directive when the target file exists and does not already contain the marker.

Evidence against

License validation sends the supplied license key to the configured gatekeeper endpoint, which is package-related.
The inspected source shows no automatic install-time execution or confirmed credential theft.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

scanned 71 file(s), 480 KB of source, external domains: api.github.com, chemicalx.xophz.com, github.com, img.shields.io, mycompassconsulting.com, www.w3.org

Source & flagged code

6 flagged

cli/navigator-share.jsView file

Lines 1-22javascript

1import fs from 'node:fs';

2import path from 'node:path';

3import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';

4import {

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

cli/navigator-share.jsView on unpkg · L2

5 hasGum,

6 gumChoose,

7 gumInput,

8 promptQuestion,

9 openBrowser

10} from './terminal.js';

11import {

12 detectGitRepoInfo,

13 detectGitHubUser,

14 getAuditBaseline,

15 createSnapshotFromReport,

16 getAuditHistory,

17 generateTransformationDiscussionContent,

18 generateDiscussionContent,

19 publishDiscussion,

20 publishOrUpdateDiscussion,

21 getStoredDiscussion,

22 copyToClipboard,

cli/terminal.jsView file

Lines 1-30javascript

1import readline from "node:readline";

2import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

3import { formatChemicalXGradient, ANSI } from "./theme.js";

5export const openBrowser

cli/license.jsView file

Lines 1-23javascript

1import fs from 'node:fs';

2import path from 'node:path';

3import os from 'node:os';

4import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';

cli/scaffold.jsView file

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. import fs from 'node:fs'; import path from 'node:path'; import { hasgum, guminput, promptquestion, renderbanner } from './terminal.js'; import { obtainlicensekey, fetchstarterkitfiles, loadlocalblueprintfiles } from './license.js'; export const runscaffold = async (projectname, rawargs = [], onrunaudit = null) => { renderbanner('chemical x: molecular architecture scaffolder (npm create chemx)'); const licensekey = await obtainlicensekey(rawargs, onrunaudit); let iscommunity = false; let files = {}; if (!licensekey) { process.stdout.write( '\n\x1b[38;2;98;201;255m⚡ chemical x: community edition (free)\x1b[0m\n' + 'the community version is free because

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.

cli/scaffold.jsView on unpkg

package.jsonView file

Lines 15-55json

15 "homepage": "https://chemicalx.xophz.com",

16 "bugs": {

17 "url": "https://github.com/Chemical-X-Protocol/starter-kit/issues"

18 },

19 "publishConfig": {

20 "access": "public",

Source & flagged code

6 flagged · loading source

cli/navigator-share.jsView file

2import path from 'node:path'; L3: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process'; L4: import {

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

cli/navigator-share.jsView on unpkg · L2

cli/terminal.jsView file

10} else if (platform === "win32") { L11: spawnSync("cmd.exe", ["/c", "start", '""', url], { stdio: "ignore", timeout: 3000 }); L12: } else {

High

Shell

Package source references shell execution.

cli/terminal.jsView on unpkg · L10

cli/license.jsView file

3import os from 'node:os'; L4: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process'; L5: import { ... L17: L18: export const API_BASE = process.env.CHEMICAL_X_API_URL || 'https://chemicalx.xophz.com'; L19: export const GATEKEEPER_API_URL = process.env.COMPASS_GATEKEEPER_URL || 'https://mycompassconsulting.com/wp-json/compass/v1/gatekeeper';

Findings

5 High3 Medium4 Low

HighChild Processcli/navigator-share.js

HighShellcli/terminal.js

HighSame File Env Network Executioncli/license.js

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationcli/scaffold.js

HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltacli/license.js

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

LowHigh Entropy Strings

LowUrl Strings

Affected versions and remediation

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Evidence last updated: 2026-10-12 06:56:09.415Z (UTC).

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