---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.16"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.16.md"
package: "halfcycle"
report_status: "published"
title: "halfcycle@0.4.16 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.4.16"
---

# halfcycle@0.4.16 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 18 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.4.16
- **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.

This is not credential exfiltration: the engagement token authenticates to the configured Halfcycle telemetry service, and the record contains run metadata rather than raw tool input. The automatic hook telemetry has no user-facing disclosure or opt-out visible in the inspected package source, so it warrants a warning.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 78.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T22:10:01.823Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T22:11:43.464Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4881 ms
- **AI review time:** 96239 ms
- **Total time:** 101641 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:** Claude hooks send runtime guard-evaluation telemetry to a configured Halfcycle endpoint.

- **Trigger:** After a configured project hook evaluates a tool or edit.

- **Impact:** Halfcycle receives per-engagement run and evaluation metadata. The inspected record builder does not include raw tool input or credential values.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/bin.bundle.mjs, dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T22:11:43.464Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook builds a run record and POSTs it to CONTROL\_TELEMETRY\_URL/telemetry with GUARD\_SERVICE\_TOKEN as bearer authorization; records are also written to a local log.

- **Rationale:** This is not credential exfiltration: the engagement token authenticates to the configured Halfcycle telemetry service, and the record contains run metadata rather than raw tool input. The automatic hook telemetry has no user-facing disclosure or opt-out visible in the inspected package source, so it warrants a warning.

- **Files touched:** ~/.halfcycle/guard-eval-log/\<phase\>.jsonl, ~/.halfcycle/guard-eval-log/unphased.jsonl

- **Network endpoints:** https://control.halfcycle.ai/telemetry, CONTROL\_TELEMETRY\_URL/telemetry

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 78.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Configured Claude hooks automatically emit and post a run record after a guard evaluation., The record is sent as JSON to the configured telemetry URL with the engagement token as bearer authorization., The record builder includes a random run ID, engagement ID, run type, timestamp, and outcome; it does not serialize the tool input., The package source inspected does not show a user-facing disclosure or telemetry opt-out for these hook records.

- **Evidence against:** The telemetry uses a configured Halfcycle service URL and engagement token, rather than sending credentials to an unrelated collector., The record builder describes run metadata and evaluation status, not raw prompts, commands, or credential values., The package exposes its CLI through an explicit command and declares no npm lifecycle hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to halfcycle@0.4.16.

- Review the evidence and your use of halfcycle@0.4.16 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@0.4.16/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19172: // dist/git.js
L19173: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L19174: import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/bin.bundle.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14668: var WRITE_CAPABLE_TOOLS = ["Edit", "MultiEdit", "NotebookEdit", "Write"];
L14669: var PRE_TOOL_USE_MATCHER = "^(Bash|Read|Grep|Write|Edit|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|Agent|PowerShell)$";
L14670: function hookCommand(script, verb) {
```

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

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** bin/bin.bundle.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: // dist/guard-origin.js
L9: var DEFAULT_GUARD_ORIGIN = "https://guard.halfcycle.ai";
L10: function resolveGuardOrigin(env) {
...
L26: ZodArray: () => ZodArray,
L27: ZodBase64: () => ZodBase64,
L28: ZodBase64URL: () => ZodBase64URL,
...
L1487: error: new (_Err ?? $ZodError)(result.issues.map((iss) => finalizeIssue(iss, ctx, config())))
L1488: } : { success: true, data: result.value };
L1489: };
...
L14668: var WRITE_CAPABLE_TOOLS = ["Edit", "MultiEdit", "NotebookEdit", "Write"];
L14669: var PRE_TOOL_USE_MATCHER = "^(Bash|Read|Grep|Write|Edit|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|Agent|PowerShell)$";
L14670: function hookCommand(script, verb) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 7. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 8. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/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
L8210: // dist/control-origin.js
L8211: var DEFAULT_CONTROL_ORIGIN = "https://control.halfcycle.ai";
L8212: function resolveControlOrigin(env = process.env) {
L8213: const configured = env["HALFCYCLE_SERVICE_URL"]?.trim();
...
L8222: // dist/device-signin.js
L8223: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L8224: import { platform as platform3 } from "node:os";
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/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:
import { existsSync as existsSync4, lstatSync, mkdirSync as mkdirSync5, readFileSync as readFileSync6, rmSync as rmSync2, writeFileSync as writeFileSync5 } from "node:fs";
var SETTINGS_REL = ".claude/settings.json";
var LOCAL_SETTINGS_REL = ".claude/settings.local.json";
var SESSION_START_MARKER_REL = ".claude/hooks/session-start-marker.sh";
var GUARD_RUNNER_REL = ".claude/hooks/guard-runner.sh";
var USER_PROMPT_REMINDER_REL = ".claude/hooks/user-prompt-reminder.sh";
var USER_PROMPT_SCOPE_REL = ".claude/hooks/user-prompt-scope.sh";
var USER_PROMPT_FINDINGS_REL = ".claude/hooks/user-prompt-findings.sh";
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/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
L6: // dist/install.js
L7: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { createHash as createHash2 } from "node:crypto";
...
L125: try {
L126: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L127: if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || typeof parsed.accounts !== "object") {
...
L249: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L250: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L251: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1337: const where = allowedLocation === void 0 ? "" : `
L1338: Records are written only into ${allowedLocation.replace(/\\/g, "/")}/. Nothing was written.`;
L1339: super(`that pha
```

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/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.
L6: // dist/install.js
L7: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2 } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { createHash as createHash2 } from "node:crypto";
...
L125: try {
L126: const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L127: if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || typeof parsed.accounts !== "object") {
...
L249: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L250: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L251: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1337: const where = allowedLocation === void
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9470: // dist/pre-create-checks.js
L9471: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L9472: import { existsSync as existsSync5, readFileSync as readFileSync7, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
L9473: import { delimiter, dirname as dirname4, join as join7 } from "node:path";
L9474: var KEPT_FOLDER_ID_LINE = 'Nothing on the Halfcycle service needs undoing, and this folder keeps its project id, so running "npx halfcycle" again picks up where it left off.';
L9475: var PreCreateRefused = class extends Error {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** bin/pre-tool-use-filter.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/bin/pre-tool-use-filter.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = bin/pre-tool-use-filter.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 27042
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. 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.

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.4.16/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@0.4.8
matchedIdentity = npm:aGFsZmN5Y2xl:0.4.8
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:** 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:** 0.4.16
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T13:41:26.728Z
- **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: it scopes, designs, plans and reviews production software, and runs the build inside your own 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:** 140
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,517,662 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.16>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle>)
- [Homepage](<https://halfcycle.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle/issues>)