---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeam-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeam-cli/v/2.75.37.md"
package: "codeam-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "codeam-cli@2.75.37 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "2.75.37"
---

# codeam-cli@2.75.37 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 2.75.37
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 74.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T14:31:56.346Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T14:34:47.462Z
- **Download time:** 770 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5253 ms
- **AI review time:** 165092 ms
- **Total time:** 171116 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:** Running a non-local codeam session mutates Claude Code control files under the user home directory, including CLAUDE.md instructions and onboarding or trust flags. Pair and link can also globally install the latest codeam-cli release. The service base URL can be redirected with CODEAM\_API\_URL.

- **Trigger:** User runs the codeam CLI for a non-local session, or runs codeam pair or codeam link.

- **Impact:** Claude Code receives persistent instructions and pre-accepted onboarding or trust state, and a later global CLI update can run that release's install script. An operator-set API URL can receive the CLI's service traffic.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/index.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T14:34:47.462Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Session startup writes ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and ~/.claude.json and may edit ~/.claude/settings.json. Pair and link may spawn npm install -g codeam-cli@latest. Requests use the default CodeAgent API host unless CODEAM\_API\_URL overrides it.

- **Rationale:** Install only prints a banner, but a normal codeam session still writes Claude Code memory, onboarding, and settings files without a separate consent step. Pair and link can also replace the global package with codeam-cli@latest, so the agent-config behavior is a real user-invoked capability rather than a hidden install attack.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.claude.json, ~/.claude/settings.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.codeagent-mobile.com, https://dev-api.codeagent-mobile.com, https://registry.npmjs.org/codeam-cli/latest

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 74.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The npm postinstall script only prints a usage banner., Starting a non-local codeam session appends a guardrail block to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, writes onboarding and project-trust flags in ~/.claude.json, and can delete a retired proxy setting from ~/.claude/settings.json., The pair and link commands can run npm install -g codeam-cli@latest and then respawn the CLI., API calls default to https://api.codeagent-mobile.com, and CODEAM\_API\_URL replaces that base with no host allowlist.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall does not write agent config files or download a payload., The Claude config writes run only after the user starts a codeam session, not from the install hook., Analytics capture skips property names that look like tokens, secrets, or passwords., The vendored node-pty code is a local PTY spawn helper.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to codeam-cli@2.75.37.

- Review the evidence and your use of codeam-cli@2.75.37 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 4. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L92: // src/integrations/stdio-proxy.ts
L93: var import_node_child_process31, import_node_readline3, RESTART_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS, SIGKILL_ESCALATION_MS, TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS, REPLAY_INIT_ID, RestartableStdioProxy;
L94: var init_stdio_proxy = __esm({
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8642: var STARTUP_EXEC_ARGV = [
L8643: ...globalThis.process?.execArgv ?? []
L8644: ];
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: };
L12: var __commonJS = (cb, mod) => function __require() {
L13: return mod || (0, cb[__getOwnPropNames(cb)[0]])((mod = { exports: {} }).exports, mod), mod.exports;
```

### 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/codeam-cli@2.75.37/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
L10640: process.stderr.write(
L10641: "\n  codeam-cli sends anonymous + identified usage events to PostHog\n  (same project as the mobile + web apps). Opt out at any time:\n    export CODEAM_TELEMETRY=0\n  See https://...
L10642: );
...
L10646: function vercelBypassHeader() {
L10647: const token = process.env.CODEAM_VERCEL_BYPASS;
L10648: return token ? { "x-vercel-protection-bypass": token } : {};
...
L10651: // src/lib/git-branch.ts
L10652: var import_child_process = require("child_process");
L10653: function detectCurrentBranch(cwd = process.cwd()) {
```

### 12. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/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:
var import_node_child_process31, import_node_readline3, RESTART_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS, SIGKILL_ESCALATION_MS, TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS, REPLAY_INIT_ID, RestartableStdioProxy;
import_node_readline3 = __toESM(require("readline"));
const rl = import_node_readline3.default.createInterface({ input: stdin, crlfDelay: Infinity });
const rl = import_node_readline3.default.createInterface({ input: child.stdout, crlfDelay: Infinity });
async function adminQuery(baseUrl, key, api, body, fetchImpl = fetch) {
const res = await fetchImpl(`${baseUrl}/api/${api}`, {
headers: { Authorization: `Convex ${key}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" }
```

### 13. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1970: // Verified 2026-09-03 over MCP with a dummy key (`tools/list` → 162, no
L1971: // licence gate, no paywall on stderr) and supply-chain audited from the
L1972: // tarball: the only network hosts are api.clickup.com /
L1973: // developer.clickup.com, no child_process/eval, deps = MCP SDK, axios,
L1974: // zod, dotenv, form-data. Young package (2 releases, one author) — the
L1975: // pin is EXACT and the licence audit watches every bump.
```

### 14. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L92: // src/integrations/stdio-proxy.ts
L93: var import_node_child_process31, import_node_readline3, RESTART_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS, SIGKILL_ESCALATION_MS, TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS, REPLAY_INIT_ID, RestartableStdioProxy;
L94: var init_stdio_proxy = __esm({
...
L101: TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS = (() => {
L102: const raw = Number(process.env.CODEAM_MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT_MS);
L103: return Number.isFinite(raw) && raw > 0 ? raw : 12e4;
...
L116: toolTimers = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
L117: stdout = null;
L118: swapping = false;
...
L127: rl.on("line", (line) => this.onClientLine(line));
L128: rl.on("close", () => this.child?.stdin?.end());
L129: const timer = setInterval(() => this.checkRestart(stdout), RESTART_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS);
```

### 15. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L92: // src/integrations/stdio-proxy.ts
L93: var import_node_child_process31, import_node_readline3, RESTART_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS, SIGKILL_ESCALATION_MS, TOOL_CALL_TIMEOUT_MS, REPLAY_INIT_ID, RestartableStdioProxy;
L94: var init_stdio_proxy = __esm({
...
L389: }
L390: async function adminQuery(baseUrl, key, api, body, fetchImpl = fetch) {
L391: const res = await fetchImpl(`${baseUrl}/api/${api}`, {
...
L3491: const tmp = `${debugFilePath}.${process.pid}.tmp`;
L3492: fs.writeFileSync(tmp, header);
L3493: fs.renameSync(tmp, debugFilePath);
```

### 16. High: Copied Package Dependency Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 83.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Package metadata claims a different repository identity while copied source loads a runtime dependency bridge.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
package = codeam-cli; repositoryIdentity = codeagent-mobile-clients; dependency = chokidar
L12441: try {
L12442: return require("chokidar");
L12443: } catch {
```

### 17. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/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.main -> dist/index.js
L1970: // Verified 2026-09-03 over MCP with a dummy key (`tools/list` → 162, no
L1971: // licence gate, no paywall on stderr) and supply-chain audited from the
L1972: // tarball: the only network hosts are api.clickup.com /
L1973: // developer.clickup.com, no child_process/eval, deps = MCP SDK, axios,
L1974: // zod, dotenv, form-data. Young package (2 releases, one author) — the
L1975: // pin is EXACT and the licence audit watches every bump.
```

### 18. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/index.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16606: fs9.writeFileSync(this.helperPath, PYTHON_PTY_HELPER, { mode: 420 });
L16607: this.proc = (0, import_child_process7.spawn)(python, [this.helperPath, cmd, ...args2], {
L16608: stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "inherit"],
...
L16621: \u2717 Failed to launch Claude Code: ${err.message}
L16622: Make sure claude is correctly installed: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
L16623: `
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 20. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 22. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor/node-pty/prebuilds/win32-arm64/pty.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/vendor/node-pty/prebuilds/win32-arm64/pty.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dist/vendor/node-pty/prebuilds/win32-arm64/pty.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 293376
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor/node-pty/lib/unixTerminal.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/vendor/node-pty/lib/unixTerminal.js>)

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 = agent-tower@0.7.0
matchedPath = node_modules/@shitiandmw/node-pty/lib/unixTerminal.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YWdlbnQtdG93ZXI:0.7.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/vendor/node-pty/lib/windowsPtyAgent.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeam-cli@2.75.37/dist/vendor/node-pty/lib/windowsPtyAgent.js>)

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 = agent-tower@0.7.0
matchedPath = node_modules/@shitiandmw/node-pty/lib/windowsPtyAgent.js
matchedIdentity = npm:YWdlbnQtdG93ZXI:0.7.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 14
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 13

### Published dependency entries
- @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp 0.74.0 (Dependency)
- @agentclientprotocol/codex-acp 1.1.4 (Dependency)
- @agentclientprotocol/sdk 1.2.1 (Dependency)
- @clack/prompts ^1.2.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.29.0 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^3.6.0 (Dependency)
- ignore ^7.0.6 (Dependency)
- picocolors ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (Dependency)
- which ^6.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.3 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)
- @beads/bd 1.0.5 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codeam-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.75.37
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-27T01:40:15.569Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T19:53:26.978Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T03:48:31.574Z
- **Known versions:** 135
- **Latest version:** 2.76.16
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Workflow-continuity bridge for AI coding agents. Wrap Claude Code or Codex in a PTY and supervise, approve, and redirect the session from any device — async. The terminal companion for CodeAgent Mobile.
- **Author:** Edgar Durand
- **Maintainers:** edgardurand
- **Keywords:** claude, claude-code, ai, ai-agent, ai-coding, ai-workflow, ai-workflow-continuity, async-ai-productivity, remote-ai-supervision, cli, developer-tools, devtools
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 38
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,426,723 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeam-cli/v/2.75.37>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/edgar-durand/codeagent-mobile-clients>)
- [Homepage](<https://codeagent-mobile.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/edgar-durand/codeagent-mobile-clients/issues>)