---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gaoding-cli/v/1.0.0-alpha.17"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gaoding-cli/v/1.0.0-alpha.17.md"
package: "gaoding-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.0-alpha.17"
---

# gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0-alpha.17
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The source confirms guarded first-party agent skill setup from postinstall and explicit update paths, which warrants a warning under the agent extension lifecycle policy. It does not establish malicious behavior or a publish-blocking attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T02:28:04.453Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T02:29:29.801Z
- **Download time:** 756 ms
- **Static scan time:** 406 ms
- **AI review time:** 84185 ms
- **Total time:** 85348 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:** The postinstall hook can install or update the package’s bundled gd-cli skill in detected agent skill directories during supported global npm or pnpm installs. This is guarded first-party setup; the inspected source does not establish a malicious attack.

- **Trigger:** A supported global npm or pnpm installation invokes postinstall; the same skill synchronization is also available through the CLI update flow.

- **Impact:** The skill becomes available to those agent tools and may be refreshed on a later global install or explicit update.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/bin/postinstall.js, dist/src/features/skill/installer.js, dist/src/features/skill/bundled-skills.js, dist/src/bootstrap/create-runtime.js, dist/src/platform/url-safety.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T02:29:29.801Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook loads the bundled gd-cli skill and synchronizes it to the canonical and detected agent skills directories, replacing managed copies when needed.

- **Rationale:** The source confirms guarded first-party agent skill setup from postinstall and explicit update paths, which warrants a warning under the agent extension lifecycle policy. It does not establish malicious behavior or a publish-blocking attack.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/skills/gd-cli, ~/.codex/skills/gd-cli, ~/.cursor/skills/gd-cli

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json defines a postinstall hook that loads the bundled postinstall entrypoint., The hook only proceeds for supported global npm or pnpm lifecycle contexts, with the pnpm path checking install context and package identity., The installer detects agent directories and synchronizes a bundled skill into their skills directories., The bundled source is limited to this package’s own gd-cli skill; managed directories are staged and replaced with that source., The update service is also reachable through the CLI runtime and synchronizes skills during an explicit update.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected source shows guarded first-party skill setup, not a foreign agent configuration write or credential transfer., The URL safety helper rejects localhost, metadata, and private IP destinations for remote asset URLs.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17.

- Review the evidence and your use of gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17 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/gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "const p='./dist/bin/postinstall.js'; if (require('node:fs').existsSync(p)) import(p)"
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "const p='./dist/bin/postinstall.js'; if (require('node:fs').existsSync(p)) import(p)"
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/features/dam/object-storage.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17/dist/src/features/dam/object-storage.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12: try {
L13: const url = new URL(value.includes("://") ? value : `https://${value}`);
L14: if (url.protocol !== "http:" && url.protocol !== "https:") {
...
L130: .update(stringToSign)
L131: .digest("base64");
L132: const stream = createReadStream(input.filePath);
...
L142: },
L143: body: stream,
L144: signal: input.signal,
```

### 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: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/features/update/update-service.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17/dist/src/features/update/update-service.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { realpathSync } from "node:fs";
...
L5: import { syncBundledSkills, verifyBundledSkills } from "../skill/installer.js";
L6: const REGISTRY_URL = "https://registry.npmjs.org/gaoding-cli";
L7: export class UpdateError extends Error {
...
L21: const cwd = normalizePath(resolve(input.cwd));
L22: const userAgent = input.env.npm[redacted] ?? "";
L23: const npmExecPath = normalizePath(input.env.npm_execpath ?? "");
...
L82: packageRoot: options.packageRoot,
L83: cwd: options.cwd ?? process.cwd(),
L84: env
...
L129: throw new Error(`Registry status ${response.status}`);
```

### 9. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/platform/url-safety.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/gaoding-cli@1.0.0-alpha.17/dist/src/platform/url-safety.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { isIP } from "node:net";
L2: export class UrlSafetyError extends Error {
...
L15: }
L16: function isPrivateIpv4(parts) {
L17: const first = parts[0] ?? -1;
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- ajv 8.20.0 (Dependency)
- ajv-formats 3.0.1 (Dependency)
- ali-oss 6.23.0 (Dependency)
- commander 14.0.3 (Dependency)
- open 11.0.0 (Dependency)
- qrcode 1.5.4 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.5 (Dependency)
- sharp 0.35.3 (Dependency)
- ws 8.21.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** gaoding-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0-alpha.17
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-23T16:13:36.315Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-17T02:11:58.922Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-10T02:29:29.801Z
- **Known versions:** 10
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0-alpha.24
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Gaoding command-line interface for agents and people.
- **Maintainers:** gezilinll
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 111
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 374,736 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/gaoding-cli/v/1.0.0-alpha.17>)
