---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/focalapi-cli/v/1.0.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/focalapi-cli/v/1.0.3.md"
package: "focalapi-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "focalapi-cli@1.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "1.0.3"
---

# focalapi-cli@1.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Installed agents can follow FocalAPI routing instructions without a later explicit connect command, changing how those agents handle creative tasks.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 1.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. npm postinstall automatically copies bundled FocalAPI skills into every detected third-party agent skills directory on the machine. Those skills tell foreign agents to route creative work through FocalAPI even when the user does not name the product.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 95.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-17T15:03:28.544Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-17T15:05:54.599Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 454 ms
- **AI review time:** 145348 ms
- **Total time:** 146055 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:** npm postinstall automatically copies bundled FocalAPI skills into every detected third-party agent skills directory on the machine. Those skills tell foreign agents to route creative work through FocalAPI even when the user does not name the product.

- **Trigger:** npm install or npm i -g focalapi-cli running the postinstall lifecycle script.

- **Impact:** Installed agents can follow FocalAPI routing instructions without a later explicit connect command, changing how those agents handle creative tasks.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.cjs, dist/cli.js, skills/focalapi/SKILL.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-17T15:05:54.599Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** unconsented postinstall write of skills into foreign agent control surfaces

- **Attack narrative:** On npm install, postinstall runs connect install with no agent filter. The CLI looks for home folders of dozens of third-party agents and copies bundled FocalAPI skills into each matching skills directory, including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini. The primary skill tells those agents to send creative work through FocalAPI even when the user never names the product. Skipping this requires setting FOCALAPI\_SKIP\_POSTINSTALL before install. That is unconsented mutation of foreign agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** Automatic postinstall copies FocalAPI skills into every detected third-party agent skills directory without an explicit connect command. That is unconsented mutation of a foreign and broad AI-agent control surface, so the package should be blocked.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, dist/cli.js, skills/focalapi/SKILL.md, .claude/skills, .cursor/skills, .agents/skills, .copilot/skills, .gemini/skills, .focalapi-managed-skills.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 95.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** package.json postinstall runs scripts/postinstall.cjs on npm install with no user prompt., postinstall spawns dist/cli.js connect install --json against every detected agent., connect install copies bundled skills into third-party home skills directories., The agent list includes Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and many others., The primary skill tells agents to use FocalAPI for creative work even when the user never names it., Automatic install is opt-out only via FOCALAPI\_SKIP\_POSTINSTALL; README text is not consent.

- **Evidence against:** postinstall does not open the network or read API keys; it only spawns a local connect install., https://focalapi.invalid is a dummy origin used to reject off-site request paths, not DNS exfiltration., API key storage happens only on explicit focalapi auth login and defaults to https://api.focalapi.com.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to focalapi-cli@1.0.3.

- Avoid installing focalapi-cli@1.0.3. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 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: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/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:
missing_api_key: "\u672A\u914D\u7F6E API Key\u3002\u8FD0\u884C focalapi auth login --key <sk-...>\uFF0C\u6216\u8BBE\u7F6E\u73AF\u5883\u53D8\u91CF FOCALAPI_API_KEY\u3002",
invalid_api_key: "API Key \u65E0\u6548\u3001\u5DF2\u8FC7\u671F\u6216\u88AB\u5220\u9664\u3002\u524D\u5F80 https://focalapi.com/console/token \u68C0\u67E5\u6216\u65B0\u5EFA Key\uFF0C...
upstream_auth_failed: "\u4E0A\u6E38\u6E20\u9053\u9274\u6743\u5931\u8D25\uFF0C\u5E76\u4E0D\u8868\u793A\u4F60\u7684 FocalAPI Key \u65E0\u6548\u3002\u5148\u8FD0\u884C focalapi auth st...
if (/api[-_]?key|authorization|token/i.test(k) && typeof v === "string") {
import { createI
```

### 9. Critical: Dns Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/dist/cli.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material through DNS lookups.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L41: missing_api_key: "\u672A\u914D\u7F6E API Key\u3002\u8FD0\u884C focalapi auth login --key <sk-...>\uFF0C\u6216\u8BBE\u7F6E\u73AF\u5883\u53D8\u91CF FOCALAPI_API_KEY\u3002",
L42: invalid_api_key: "API Key \u65E0\u6548\u3001\u5DF2\u8FC7\u671F\u6216\u88AB\u5220\u9664\u3002\u524D\u5F80 https://focalapi.com/console/token \u68C0\u67E5\u6216\u65B0\u5EFA Key\uFF0C...
L43: insufficient_quota: "\u8D26\u6237\u989D\u5EA6\u4E0D\u8DB3\u3002\u524D\u5F80 https://focalapi.com/console/topup \u5145\u503C\uFF1B\u53EF\u8FD0\u884C focalapi usage \u67E5\u770B\u5F5...
...
L84: function isInteractive() {
L85: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !process.env.CI;
L86: }
...
L115: function printJson(data) {
L116: process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(sanitize(data), null, 2) + "\n");
L117: }
...
L199: function c
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/dist/cli.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli.js
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 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:** 100.0%

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

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/dist/cli.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = focalapi-cli@1.0.2
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Zm9jYWxhcGktY2xp:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/focalapi-cli@1.0.3/dist/cli.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 30afda8e174b0895
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = focalapi-cli@1.0.2
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Zm9jYWxhcGktY2xp:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 2
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** focalapi-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T14:37:02.764Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T22:05:52.201Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-02T23:44:45.359Z
- **Known versions:** 28
- **Latest version:** 1.1.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** 让任意 AI Agent 直接调用 focalapi 创作模型的命令行工具
- **Keywords:** focalapi, ai, agent, cli, llm, image-generation, video-generation
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 14
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 243,645 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/focalapi-cli/v/1.0.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/focalapi/focalapi-cli.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/focalapi/focalapi-cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/focalapi/focalapi-cli/issues>)