---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.7.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.7.0.md"
package: "effect-analyzer"
report_status: "published"
title: "effect-analyzer@3.7.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "3.7.0"
---

# effect-analyzer@3.7.0 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:** 3.7.0
- **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.

Inspected source supports ordinary analysis functionality and user-invoked runtime inspection. The scanner's credential redirect claim is unsupported by the CLI source, and the dynamic loading and child processes have package-aligned purposes.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-04T01:49:07.404Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-04T01:51:07.804Z
- **Download time:** 1300 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5620 ms
- **AI review time:** 113478 ms
- **Total time:** 120400 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 malicious attack surface was identified. Inspected execution helpers support diagnostics, repository analysis, and explicitly requested runtime exports.

- **Trigger:** Users invoke analysis commands or select runtime export formats; no automatic install trigger was found.

- **Impact:** No confirmed credential exposure, agent control mutation, or malicious remote execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-04T01:51:07.804Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package loads analysis dependencies and runs local helpers for selected projects; no credential forwarding or gateway persistence was found.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source supports ordinary analysis functionality and user-invoked runtime inspection. The scanner's credential redirect claim is unsupported by the CLI source, and the dynamic loading and child processes have package-aligned purposes.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json has no automatic install lifecycle hooks or runtime self-dependency., dist/rules.js resolves the declared @effect/tsgo dependency and invokes its diagnostics executable with argument arrays., dist/cli.js activates runtime schema probing through an explicitly selected output format., scripts/analyze-public-repos.ts clones public repositories and invokes the local analyzer without a shell., The runtime probe imports the caller-selected project module to inspect its schema exports.

- **Evidence against:** Git comparison helpers use shell commands containing caller-provided references; this is user-invoked behavior, with no demonstrated automatic attack., Runtime output commands execute selected project modules, so their behavior depends on the selected project.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to effect-analyzer@3.7.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of effect-analyzer@3.7.0 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. 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@3.7.0/dist/rules.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L93: arr = arr.concat(xs);`}}};var H=(e,t)=>{let n=e.getStart(),r=e.getSourceFile(),{line:i,column:o}=r.getLineAndColumnAtPos(n);return{filePath:t,line:i,column:o}},oe=e=>e.getExpressio...
L94: `&&c.push(h+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 h=l.index,T=1;for(let N=1;N<c.length&&!(c[N]>...
L95: `),t.push(`## Summary
```

### 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@3.7.0/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 d=/^(?:\{[^}]*\}\...
L5: `).trimEnd()},Md=(e,t)=>Lt(e).idsBySpanPath.get(yn(t))??[];import{Option as Ee}from"effect";import{Option as Ks}from"effect";var ct=(e,t)=>{t(e);let n=$(e);if(Ks.isSome(n))for(let ...
```

### 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@3.7.0/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:
`));let n=rc(t.forwarded,{inheritStderr:t.progress});if(!Zg(n.stdout,t.format))return{output:n.stdout,stderr:n.stderr,exitCode:n.status};let r=t.analyzer?[...new Set([...t.project=...
`))}return t});function In(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 as=e=>{let t=e??".";if(Gl(t))retu...
`)}),Ns=(e,t,n,r="TB",s=!0,i,o=!1)=>pn.gen(function*(){let a=qS(e,n),d=yield*VS(t,r,s,i,o,e);return yield*pn.tryPromise({try:()=>lo.writeFile(a,d,"utf-8"),catch:l=>new Rs({outputPa...
`)},JS=(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@3.7.0/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.
L13: 
L14: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "child_process"
L15: import { appendFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "fs"
...
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. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/effect-analyzer@3.7.0/package.json>)

package.json has no automatic install lifecycle hooks or runtime self-dependency.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "build": "tsup && tsc --emitDeclarationOnly --declarationMap false",
    "lsp": "node dist/lsp/server.js",
    "type-check": "tsc --noEmit",
    "test": "vitest run",
    "t
```

## 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 0.46.1 (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.118 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** effect-analyzer
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.7.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T20:28:57.956Z
- **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:** 206
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 18,661,290 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/effect-analyzer/v/3.7.0>)
- [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>)
