---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.6.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.6.2.md"
package: "effect-analyzer"
report_status: "published"
title: "effect-analyzer@3.6.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "3.6.2"
---

# effect-analyzer@3.6.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 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:** 3.6.2
- **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.

Inspected source supports the package’s static analysis purpose and does not substantiate the scanner’s credential-redirection claim. The manifest declares no install hook, and the process and filesystem operations found have product-related callers.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 95.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-20T16:02:05.571Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-20T16:04:38.410Z
- **Download time:** 514 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5251 ms
- **AI review time:** 147073 ms
- **Total time:** 152839 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 source. The package provides static analysis, a language server, and an explicitly run helper for analyzing named public repositories.

- **Trigger:** A consumer imports the library, runs the CLI, or explicitly runs the repository analysis helper.

- **Impact:** No credential transfer, unrelated network recipient, or automatic install-time action was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-20T16:04:38.410Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The code parses source with ts-morph, forwards named diagnostic commands to its declared dependency, and runs repository analysis with shell execution disabled.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source supports the package’s static analysis purpose and does not substantiate the scanner’s credential-redirection claim. The manifest declares no install hook, and the process and filesystem operations found have product-related callers.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/cli.js, dist/analysis.cjs, dist/rules.js, dist/lsp/server.js, scripts/analyze-public-repos.ts

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 95.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest identifies a static analysis library and CLI and shows build and development scripts, with no install lifecycle hook declared., The CLI forwards only named, explicit commands to its TypeScript diagnostic dependency; inspected source did not connect credentials to a remote recipient., The analysis and rules modules expose source analysis functions and load ts-morph for parsing; the LSP formats analysis results., The public-repository helper clones a fixed list of repositories and runs the analyzer with shell execution disabled., Inspected prepared dependency files are TypeScript tooling and runtime modules, consistent with the declared dependencies.

- **Evidence against:** The static hint alleges credential redirection, but inspected CLI source contains no API-key handling or unrelated credential recipient., The CLI and helper use process and filesystem APIs, but the inspected callers show diagnostic forwarding, repository cloning, and analysis output.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to effect-analyzer@3.6.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of effect-analyzer@3.6.2 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/rules.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.6.2/dist/rules.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L88: `&&c.push(m+1);let s=new Map,a=/\/\/\s*(eslint|effect-analyzer)-disable-(next-line|line)\b([^\n]*)/g,l;for(;(l=a.exec(o))!==null;){let m=l.index,b=1;for(let T=1;T<c.length&&!(c[T]>...
L89: `)},Qd=(e=!0)=>JSON.stringify(Me(),null,e?2:0),Wa=()=>Me().map(e=>({id:`${e.domain}:${e.code}`,code:e.code,domain:e.domain,severity:e.severity,confidence:e.confidence,title:e.title...
L90: `).trimEnd()},ku=(e,t)=>Dt(e).idsBySpanPath.get(Cn(t))??[];import{Option as Ji}from"effect";var Iu=e=>{let t=[],n=new Map,r=0,i=0,o=0;for(let a of e){let l=rc(a);t.push(...l);for(l...
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/rules.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.6.2/dist/rules.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: `).map(a=>a.replace(/^\s*\*\s?/,"")).join(`
L4: `),n=[],r,i=[],o,c=/@(param|returns?|throws?|exception|example)\s*(.*)/gi,s;for(;(s=c.exec(t))!==null;){let a=s[1].toLowerCase(),l=s[2].trim();if(a==="param"){let u=/^(?:\{[^}]*\}\...
L5: `)}function Ld(e){return JSON.stringify({valid:e.valid,errorCount:e.errors.length,warningCount:e.warnings.length,diagnostics:e.diagnostics.map(t=>({rule:t.rule,severity:t.severity,...
```

### 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: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.6.2/dist/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/cli.js:
`))}return t});function Dn(e){let t=n=>r=>e?`\x1B[${n}m${r}\x1B[0m`:r;return{dim:t(2),green:t(32),cyan:t(36),yellow:t(33),red:t(31),bold:t(1)}}var us=e=>{let t=e??".";if(ed(t))retu...
`)}function oh(e){return e.replace(/'/g,"\\'").replace(/"/g,'\\"')}import{Effect as ld}from"effect";var dd=1,ud={pretty:!0,includeMetadata:!0,compact:!1},fd=(e,t)=>ld.gen(function*...
`)}),Ss=(e,t,n,r="TB",s=!0,i,o=!1)=>fn.gen(function*(){let a=Vh(e,n),d=yield*Zh(t,r,s,i,o,e);return yield*fn.tryPromise({try:()=>Eo.writeFile(a,d,"utf-8"),catch:l=>new hs({outputPa...
`)},Yh=(e,t)=>{let n=st.dirname(e),r=t.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]/g,"_").toLowerC
```

### 8. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/analyze-public-repos.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.6.2/scripts/analyze-public-repos.ts>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
Cross-file remote execution chain: scripts/analyze-public-repos.ts spawns dist/cli.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L15: import { join, resolve } from 'path';
L16: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from 'child_process';
L17: 
L18: const ROOT = resolve(process.cwd());
L19: const ANALYSIS_DIR = join(ROOT, '.analysis-output');
...
L22: const REPOS: { name: string; url: string }[] = [
L23: { name: 'typed', url: 'https://github.com/TylorS/typed.git' },
L24: { name: 'effect-http', url: 'https://github.com/sukovanej/effect-http.git' },
...
L93: try {
L94: const json = JSON.parse(readFileSync(auditPath, 'utf-8'));
L95: return {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. 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.

### 12. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/analysis.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.6.2/dist/analysis.cjs>)

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 = effect-analyzer@3.5.0
matchedIdentity = npm:ZWZmZWN0LWFuYWx5emVy:3.5.0
similarity = 0.600
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 2
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @effect/tsgo 0.39.1 (Dependency)
- ts-morph ^28.0.0 (Dependency)
- tsx 4.23.13 (Dependency)
- vscode-languageserver ^10.1.1 (OptionalDependency)
- vscode-languageserver-textdocument ^1.0.14 (OptionalDependency)
- effect ^4.0.0-rc.112 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** effect-analyzer
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.6.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-18T06:35:38.895Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-20T16:08:30.574Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 3.9.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Static analysis for Effect-TS code. Analyze Effect code to extract structure, calculate complexity, and generate visualizations.
- **Author:** Jag Reehal
- **Maintainers:** jagreehal
- **Keywords:** effect, effect-ts, static-analysis, ts-morph, typescript, visualization, mermaid, functional-programming
- **Artifact files:** 207
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,384,624 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.6.2>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/jagreehal/effect-analyzer>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/jagreehal/effect-analyzer/tree/main/packages/effect-analyzer#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/jagreehal/effect-analyzer/issues>)
