---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.226.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.226.0.md"
package: "droid"
report_status: "published"
title: "droid@0.226.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.226.0"
---

# droid@0.226.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 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:** 0.226.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The postinstall script is a package-aligned native-binary shim, matching the esbuild-style optional-dependency layout declared in package.json. Registry access, the npm token, and file writes stay on the Factory CLI install path and do not mutate a foreign agent control surface.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T21:52:48.242Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T21:53:24.848Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 160 ms
- **AI review time:** 35935 ms
- **Total time:** 36606 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 attack surface was identified. Install-time work stays inside this package: it locates or downloads the matching Factory CLI binary and links it over bin/droid.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall runs node install.js after a normal install.

- **Impact:** The consumer gets the droid CLI binary. No foreign agent config, credential export, or project-wide mutation was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T21:53:24.848Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The script resolves a same-version @factory/cli platform package, optionally fetches its tarball from the npm registry, writes the binary under this package's bin directory, and hard-links it to bin/droid.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall script is a package-aligned native-binary shim, matching the esbuild-style optional-dependency layout declared in package.json. Registry access, the npm token, and file writes stay on the Factory CLI install path and do not mutate a foreign agent control surface.

- **Files touched:** bin/droid, bin/droid.backup

- **Network endpoints:** https://registry.npmjs.org

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** postinstall runs node install.js and optionalDependencies are same-version @factory/cli platform packages., install.js replaces only this package's bin/droid with a hard link or symlink to the platform binary, then checks --version., If the optional package is missing, it downloads that package tarball from registry.npmjs.org and extracts package/bin into its own bin directory., NPM\_TOKEN is attached only when the request hostname includes npmjs.org. PATH warnings print text and do not edit shell profiles.

- **Evidence against:** postinstall can download and execute a native binary and follows HTTP redirects without rechecking the host., The binary itself is not in this package, so its runtime behavior cannot be reviewed here.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to droid@0.226.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of droid@0.226.0 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.226.0/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@0.226.0/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@0.226.0/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. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.226.0/install.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L305: `  set PATH=%PATH%;${binDir}\n\n` +
L306: 'To fix permanently (PowerShell):\n' +
L307: `  [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', $env:PATH + ';${binDir}', 'User')\n\n` +
```

### 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:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.226.0/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: }
```

### 10. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.226.0/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) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** install.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/droid@0.226.0/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 = 1
```

## 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 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64-baseline 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-arm64 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64-baseline 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-arm64 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64-baseline 0.226.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** droid
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.226.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-09-23T23:12:37.576Z
- **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:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.226.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory/issues>)
