---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeassembly/v/0.14.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeassembly/v/0.14.0.md"
package: "codeassembly"
report_status: "published"
title: "codeassembly@0.14.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.14.0"
---

# codeassembly@0.14.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.14.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 12 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-08T01:42:25.906Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-08T01:42:32.803Z
- **Download time:** 756 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6139 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 6897 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to codeassembly@0.14.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of codeassembly@0.14.0 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:** dist/esm/derive-session-context/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeassembly@0.14.0/dist/esm/derive-session-context/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L2: import { realpathSync } from 'node: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/codeassembly.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeassembly@0.14.0/bin/codeassembly.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: try {
L23: await import(entryPoint.href);
L24: } catch (error) {
```

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/esm/kb-curate/apply/canonicalize-tags.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeassembly@0.14.0/dist/esm/kb-curate/apply/canonicalize-tags.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/esm/kb-curate/apply/canonicalize-tags.js spawns dist/content/skills/kb-edit/kb-edit.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L2: import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
...
L40: const child = spawn(process.execPath, [...args], { stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
L41: let stdout = '';
L42: let stderr = '';
...
L55: child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => {
L56: stdout += chunk.toString('utf8');
L57: });
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/content/scripts/resolve-merge-options.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeassembly@0.14.0/dist/content/scripts/resolve-merge-options.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = dist/content/scripts/resolve-merge-options.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 10657
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 95.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 12. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/codeassembly@0.14.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @williamthorsen/kb 0.7.0 (Dependency)
- @williamthorsen/toolbelt.errors 0.7.0 (Dependency)
- codeassembly-lifecycle 0.4.2 (Dependency)
- ulid 3.0.2 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod 4.5.4 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** codeassembly
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.14.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-09-08T01:22:37.661Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T08:13:12.695Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T08:53:23.179Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.18.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI that installs reusable AI agent guidance (rulebooks, skills, and subagents) into coding-harness directories
- **Author:** William Thorsen \<william@thorsen.dev\> (https://github.com/williamthorsen)
- **Maintainers:** williamthorsen
- **Keywords:** agents, ai, claude-code, cli, skills
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 616
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 8,598,198 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/codeassembly/v/0.14.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/williamthorsen/codeassembly>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/williamthorsen/codeassembly/tree/main/packages/agents#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/williamthorsen/codeassembly/issues>)
