---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-pmos/v/0.408.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-pmos/v/0.408.0.md"
package: "create-pmos"
report_status: "published"
title: "create-pmos@0.408.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.408.0"
---

# create-pmos@0.408.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 0.408.0
- **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.

The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the credential-related finding inspected is a test that verifies secret rejection. The explicit scaffolder can automatically enable a project-local agent plugin, so I am warning about the agent extension setup without concluding that the package is malicious.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 78.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-25T03:04:07.432Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-25T03:06:16.383Z
- **Download time:** 2816 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9554 ms
- **AI review time:** 116578 ms
- **Total time:** 128951 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:** The explicit scaffolding command can enable a first-party Claude plugin by writing project-level settings. This creates an agent integration, but the inspected behavior does not establish a concrete attack.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the create-pmos scaffolding command without --no-mod.

- **Impact:** The plugin becomes available to Claude Code for that project and can affect tool-call decisions. No credential theft or malicious account action was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-25T03:06:16.383Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI merges marketplace and enabled-plugin entries into the repository’s .claude/settings.json. The plugin registers tool-call guards and commands; the inspected handover requires typed confirmation.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the credential-related finding inspected is a test that verifies secret rejection. The explicit scaffolder can automatically enable a project-local agent plugin, so I am warning about the agent extension setup without concluding that the package is malicious.

- **Files touched:** .claude/settings.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 78.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Running the scaffolder calls the mod offer, which can add the mod to the repository’s Claude settings., The installer enables a project-local Claude plugin and writes missing settings values., The plugin intercepts tool calls and can deny them; outward writes require confirmation each time., Handover commits or pushes only after a person types the confirmation or presses the control., The credential-looking share test creates a fake secret and checks that the share request is refused., The viewer fetches a located document using the workspace and relative path returned by its locator., The tool classifier maps recognized pull request merge and auto-merge tool names to merge findings., The status formatter builds a display line from the initiative ID and stage, cleaning it to the selected width.

- **Evidence against:** The package manifest exposes a CLI and lists no lifecycle scripts., The scaffolder provides a --no-mod option, and the plugin’s setup is part of an explicit command., The inspected credential-related test exercises secret rejection; it does not show credentials being sent to an external recipient.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to create-pmos@0.408.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of create-pmos@0.408.0 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. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** workspace/premium-viewer-share-test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/workspace/premium-viewer-share-test.js>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 61
```

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/create-pmos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/bin/create-pmos.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23: const path = require('path');
L24: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process');
L25:
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/create-pmos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/bin/create-pmos.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L181: const probe = process.platform === 'win32' ? `where ${cmd}` : `command -v ${cmd}`;
L182: try { return spawnSync(probe, { stdio: 'ignore', shell: true }).status === 0; }
L183: catch { return false; }
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/create-pmos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/bin/create-pmos.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20: 'use strict';
L21: const os = require('os');
L22: const fs = require('fs');
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** workspace/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/workspace/server.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: * A persistent, LOCAL, headless server that owns real PTYs for the PM's agent CLIs.
L6: * Clients (the GUI, later a native TUI, a phone) ATTACH over WebSocket; close a client
L7: * and the sessions keep running — re-attach replays scrollback and resumes live (R7).
...
L22: 'use strict';
L23: // Windows: hide the console window of every command the server runs. First, before anything holds child_process.
L24: require('./lib/win-hide');
...
L28: // out of every terminal session's environment (sessionEnv), so the PM's own shells and agents are unchanged.
L29: const SET_GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS = process.env.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS === undefined;
L30: if (SET_GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS) process.env.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS = '0';
...
L58: function ensureSpawnHelperExecutable() {
L59: if (process.platform === 'win3
```

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** workspace/premium-chat-chart-tab-test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/workspace/premium-chat-chart-tab-test.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L74: try { ({ chromium } = require('playwright-core')); } catch { console.log('✗ playwright-core is not installed'); return finish(1); }
L75: srv = spawn(process.execPath, [path.join(__dirname, 'server.js')], { cwd: __dirname, stdio: 'ignore', env: T.env({ PMOS_WS_PORT: String(T.PORT), PMOS_SELF_ROOT: dir, PMOS_STATE_DIR...
L76: await T.waitForServer(BASE);
L77: browser = await chromium.launch({ executablePath: exe, headless: true, args: ['--no-sandbox'] });
L78: const shots = process.env.CHART_TAB_SHOTS;
L79: const board = (await (await fetch(BASE + '/api/insights-premium')).json()).model.board.id;
L80: const open = async (width, messages, url = '/premium-chat.html') => {
```

### 10. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** payload/mods/pmos-cockpit/hooks/register.tsx
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/payload/mods/pmos-cockpit/hooks/register.tsx>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```tsx
L51: // ── helpers for the guards and commands ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
L52: const out = (r: any): string => (r && typeof r.stdout === 'string' ? r.stdout.trim() : '')
L53: async function sh($: any, argv: string[], init?: any): Promise<{ exitCode: number; stdout: string; stderr: string }> {
...
L103: const root: string = await $.session.root()
L104: const ask = $.http.fetch(url, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'content-type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ root, prompt, source, interactive: true }) })
L105: .then((r: any) => parseRoute(r?.status, r?.text)).catch(() => null)
...
L145: 
L146: // Candidate artifact names for `npm publish`: the package.json beside the target, then the session root.
L147: async function publishNames($: any, root: st
```

### 11. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** workspace/server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/workspace/server.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: * A persistent, LOCAL, headless server that owns real PTYs for the PM's agent CLIs.
L6: * Clients (the GUI, later a native TUI, a phone) ATTACH over WebSocket; close a client
L7: * and the sessions keep running — re-attach replays scrollback and resumes live (R7).
...
L22: 'use strict';
L23: // Windows: hide the console window of every command the server runs. First, before anything holds child_process.
L24: require('./lib/win-hide');
...
L28: // out of every terminal session's environment (sessionEnv), so the PM's own shells and agents are unchanged.
L29: const SET_GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS = process.env.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS === undefined;
L30: if (SET_GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS) process.env.GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS = '0';
...
L58: function ensureSpawnHelperExecutable() {
L59: if (process.platform === 'win3
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/create-pmos.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/bin/create-pmos.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.
ffer it after you trust the project, run the two commands below.`);
  if (m.changed) for (const c of cockpit.manualcommands()) console.log(`        ${c}`);
  else console.log('   mod: already offered in .claude/settings.json');
  for (const k of m.kept) console.log(`   mod: kept ${k}`);
}

function vendor(targetroot, opts) {
  payloadordie();
  const kit = path.join(targetroot, 'pmos');
  if (fs.existssync(kit)) die(`${kit} already exists — use --update to refresh its kernel.`);
  fs.mkdirsync(targetroot, { recursive: true });
  fs.cpsync(payload, kit, { recursive: true });
  stampinstall(kit, 'vendor');
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/install.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = install.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 11055
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. 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.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/create-pmos.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/bin/create-pmos.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 50
```

### 19. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** workspace/home-other-product-test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/create-pmos@0.408.0/workspace/home-other-product-test.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = create-pmos@0.407.0
matchedIdentity = npm:Y3JlYXRlLXBtb3M:0.407.0
similarity = 0.992
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** create-pmos
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.408.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-25T02:58:55.385Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-17T00:07:13.445Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T19:44:08.047Z
- **Known versions:** 372
- **Latest version:** 0.533.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Scaffold the PMOS portable kit — run the PMOS product-management workflow (initiative → lane-fit spec → contract → build → three gates, with work-type lanes for features, research, maintenance, incidents, and content) entirely inside your own repo, with a
- **Maintainers:** wawancsui
- **Keywords:** pmos, product-management, agent-harness, eval-driven, scaffold, create, workspace, terminal, gui, workflow, audit
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 1103
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 14,927,383 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/create-pmos/v/0.408.0>)