---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.237.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/droid/v/0.237.0.md"
package: "droid"
report_status: "published"
title: "droid@0.237.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.237.0"
---

# droid@0.237.0 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:** 0.237.0
- **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 activity is consistent with installing this CLI's matching platform binary and optimizing its command shim. Source inspection found no concrete attack behavior, so the scanner's install and network signals do not warrant a warning or block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T03:33:13.005Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T03:33:36.433Z
- **Download time:** 773 ms
- **Static scan time:** 144 ms
- **AI review time:** 22510 ms
- **Total time:** 23428 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 was identified in the inspected installer. Its postinstall fallback retrieves a version-matched platform binary from npm and updates this package's command shim.

- **Trigger:** Package installation runs the postinstall script; the download fallback activates when the optional platform binary is unavailable.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior installs and selects the CLI binary; no concrete malicious effect was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T03:33:36.433Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The installer fetches the selected platform package's tarball, extracts its binary into this package's bin directory, checks its version, and links it to the command shim.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall activity is consistent with installing this CLI's matching platform binary and optimizing its command shim. Source inspection found no concrete attack behavior, so the scanner's install and network signals do not warrant a warning or block.

- **Files touched:** install.js, package.json, bin/droid

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest runs a postinstall script and pins optional platform binaries to the same version under the @factory scope., The installer downloads the selected platform package from npm only as a fallback when the optional binary is unavailable, then writes its binary into this package's bin directory., The installer replaces the package's command shim with a link to that binary and includes a fallback that restores the shim if linking fails.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall downloads and runs a native binary during installation, but the inspected code ties the fallback to the matching platform package and version from npm., The code can forward NPM\_TOKEN to hosts whose names contain npmjs.org and follows redirects; no malicious destination or credential exfiltration behavior was established in the inspected flow.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to droid@0.237.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of droid@0.237.0 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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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@0.237.0/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 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-darwin-x64-baseline 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-arm64 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-linux-x64-baseline 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-arm64 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)
- @factory/cli-win32-x64-baseline 0.237.0 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** droid
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.237.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-10-09T03:29:40.151Z
- **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/0.237.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory/issues>)
