---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.1.md"
package: "halfcycle"
report_status: "published"
title: "halfcycle@0.4.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.4.1"
---

# halfcycle@0.4.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 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:** 0.4.1
- **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 manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected runtime credential flows send requests through Halfcycle service helpers. Scanner signals for networking, process execution, and agent configuration did not establish a concrete attack in the reviewed source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-17T15:39:08.556Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-17T15:40:33.122Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2310 ms
- **AI review time:** 81744 ms
- **Total time:** 84566 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 concrete attack surface was identified in the inspected source. The package provides a CLI and project guard with service requests and project-local Claude configuration.

- **Trigger:** A user invokes the CLI or imports the module; project configuration is applied through CLI setup.

- **Impact:** No malicious effect was established by the reviewed credential flows or agent configuration paths.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-17T15:40:33.122Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Credential-bearing requests use the configured service URL, whose default control origin is the Halfcycle service. The inspected Claude settings and hook paths are project-local.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected runtime credential flows send requests through Halfcycle service helpers. Scanner signals for networking, process execution, and agent configuration did not establish a concrete attack in the reviewed source.

- **Files touched:** .claude/settings.json, .claude/settings.local.json, .halfcycle/bin/bin.bundle.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** https://control.halfcycle.ai

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a CLI and module entrypoint and defines build, typecheck, and test scripts; no install lifecycle script is present., The inspected request helpers send bearer credentials to URLs built from the service URL, and the default control origin is the Halfcycle service., Credential-bearing callers perform project setup, engagement joining, and phase operations through those service helpers., The inspected agent paths identify project-local Claude settings and hooks; the credential declaration describes values supplied to a local guard runner.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected source does not establish credential forwarding to an unrelated recipient or another concrete attack; the network and process use fits the service and project tooling.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to halfcycle@0.4.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of halfcycle@0.4.1 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:** bin/bin.bundle.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15712: // dist/git.js
L15713: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L15714: import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 3. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 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: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3155: // dist/control-origin.js
L3156: var DEFAULT_CONTROL_ORIGIN = "https://control.halfcycle.ai";
L3157: function resolveControlOrigin(env = process.env) {
L3158: const configured = env["HALFCYCLE_SERVICE_URL"]?.trim();
...
L3167: // dist/device-signin.js
L3168: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L3169: import { platform as platform3 } from "node:os";
```

### 8. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3337: function defaultWrite(text) {
L3338: process.stdout.write(text);
L3339: }
L3340: function defaultSleep(ms) {
L3341: return new Promise((resolve4) => setTimeout(resolve4, ms));
L3342: }
...
L3347: return {
L3348: command: "cmd.exe",
L3349: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", `"start "" "${url}""`],
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: // dist/install.js
L9: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "node:child_process";
L10: import { createHash as createHash2 } from "node:crypto";
...
L126: try {
L127: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L128: if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || typeof parsed.accounts !== "object") {
...
L223: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L224: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L225: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L551: const where = allowedLocation === void 0 ? "" : `
L552: Records are written only into ${allowedLocation.replace(/\\/g, "/")}/. Nothing was written.`;
L553: super(`that phase
```

### 10. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/cli.js spawns bin/bin.bundle.mjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L8: // dist/install.js
L9: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "node:child_process";
L10: import { createHash as createHash2 } from "node:crypto";
...
L126: try {
L127: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L128: if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || typeof parsed.accounts !== "object") {
...
L223: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L224: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L225: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L551: const where = allowedLocation === void
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: manifest.bin -> dist/bin.js -> dist/cli.js
L3337: function defaultWrite(text) {
L3338: process.stdout.write(text);
L3339: }
L3340: function defaultSleep(ms) {
L3341: return new Promise((resolve4) => setTimeout(resolve4, ms));
L3342: }
...
L3347: return {
L3348: command: "cmd.exe",
L3349: args: ["/d", "/s", "/c", `"start "" "${url}""`],
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4491: function runWingetInstall() {
L4492: return spawnSync("winget", [...GIT_INSTALL_ARGS], { stdio: "inherit" }).status === 0;
L4493: }
...
L4497: } catch {
L4498: throw new PreCreateRefused(`cannot write to ${targetRepo} \u2014 run "npx halfcycle" in a folder you can write to.`);
L4499: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.1/dist/cli.js>)

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 = halfcycle@0.4.0
matchedIdentity = npm:aGFsZmN5Y2xl:0.4.0
similarity = 0.500
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** halfcycle
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-17T14:54:48.482Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-30T19:45:10.840Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T05:05:27.451Z
- **Known versions:** 49
- **Latest version:** 0.8.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Your coding agents are the engineers. Halfcycle is the rest of the team: product owner, architect, planner and independent reviewer for Claude Code.
- **Maintainers:** halfcycle-ai
- **Keywords:** claude, claude-code, ai-agents, agentic-coding, spec-driven-development, code-review, mcp, prd, software-architecture, ai-code-quality, engineering-process, technical-specification
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 97
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,843,977 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle>)
- [Homepage](<https://halfcycle.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle/issues>)