---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.218.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.218.2.md"
package: "droid"
report_status: "published"
title: "droid@0.218.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.218.2"
---

# droid@0.218.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 0.218.2
- **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.

The lifecycle downloader is a transparent, package-aligned fallback for the CLI’s declared platform dependencies and writes only within this package. Static inspection found no exfiltration, arbitrary remote execution chain, self-dependency, persistence, or broad consumer-project mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-14T01:06:16.463Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-14T01:06:48.662Z
- **Download time:** 261 ms
- **Static scan time:** 165 ms
- **AI review time:** 31772 ms
- **Total time:** 32199 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 malicious attack surface was found. The install hook performs package-local native CLI setup and a registry fallback.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall, when the platform optional dependency is unavailable

- **Impact:** Creates or replaces the package's own executable shim; no broader file, credential, or agent-control changes were found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-14T01:06:48.662Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** downloads a package-aligned platform binary and links the local CLI shim

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle downloader is a transparent, package-aligned fallback for the CLI’s declared platform dependencies and writes only within this package. Static inspection found no exfiltration, arbitrary remote execution chain, self-dependency, persistence, or broad consumer-project mutation.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** A postinstall hook runs install.js., If a platform dependency is absent, the installer downloads its platform binary and writes it under its own bin directory.

- **Evidence against:** The only fixed registry endpoint is registry.npmjs.org; no arbitrary command-and-control endpoint is present., The installer limits its auth header to npmjs.org and uses the token only for the registry request., Its filesystem changes replace or link only the package’s bin/droid shim., The manifest has no runtime dependency on droid itself and no broad project, shell-profile, credential, or agent-config mutation was found.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to droid@0.218.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of droid@0.218.2 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/droid@0.218.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.218.2/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.218.2/install.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: const zlib = require('zlib');
L22: const child_process = require('child_process');
L23:
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.218.2/install.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L18: const path = require("path");
L19: const https = require("https");
L20: const zlib = require("zlib");
L21: const child_process = require("child_process");
L22: 
...
L30: 
L31: // Read version - handle case where package.json doesn"t exist yet (template dir)\nlet PACKAGE_VERSION = "0.0.0";\ntry {\n  PACKAGE_VERSION = require("./package.json").version;\n} ...
L32: }
```

### 9. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.218.2/package.json>)

Install-time source downloads a native archive from a fixed external host without transport verification, extracts it, and installs an executable payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install.js
Install-time code downloads an unverified remote native executable, stages it locally, activates an executable path, and exposes it to process execution.
L9: *
L10: * Based on esbuild's approach: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/pull/1621
L11: * and Sentry's guide: https://sentry.engineering/blog/publishing-binaries-on-npm
L12: *
...
L19: const path = require('path');
L20: const https = require('https');
L21: const zlib = require('zlib');
...
L27: getBinaryName,
L28: getBinaryPath,
L29: detectAVX2Support,
...
L50: 
L51: function validateBinaryVersion(binaryPath) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

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

### 13. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.218.2/install.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 = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 9
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @factory/cli-darwin-arm64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64-baseline 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-arm64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64-baseline 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-arm64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64-baseline 0.218.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** droid
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.218.2
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-14T01:03:58.671Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T08:17:40.014Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T01:36:01.374Z
- **Known versions:** 77
- **Latest version:** 1.3.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Factory Droid CLI - AI-powered software engineering agent
- **Maintainers:** factory-davidgu, arman-factory
- **Keywords:** factory, droid, cli, ai, agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 25,819 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.218.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory/issues>)
