---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.17"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.17.md"
package: "halfcycle"
report_status: "published"
title: "halfcycle@0.4.17 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.4.17"
---

# halfcycle@0.4.17 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 18 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:** 0.4.17
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package’s credential flow targets its own service by default, and the alternate service URL is supplied through the user’s environment. The scanner’s credential and process findings are consistent with the package’s stated CLI and integration behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T22:10:01.893Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T22:11:38.379Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4825 ms
- **AI review time:** 91154 ms
- **Total time:** 96486 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 attack was identified; the CLI communicates with the Halfcycle service for its account and project functions.

- **Trigger:** User runs the halfcycle CLI command or a library operation that requires the service.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact identified in the reviewed flows.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T22:11:38.379Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The CLI defaults to control.halfcycle.ai and sends its Halfcycle credential to the selected service URL; an override comes from the user’s environment.

- **Rationale:** The package’s credential flow targets its own service by default, and the alternate service URL is supplied through the user’s environment. The scanner’s credential and process findings are consistent with the package’s stated CLI and integration behavior.

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package exports dist/index.js as its library entry and exposes dist/bin.js as a separate CLI., The CLI defaults its service origin to control.halfcycle.ai., The CLI sends its Halfcycle credential as a bearer token to the service URL it uses., The service URL override is read from the environment when the CLI command runs.

- **Evidence against:** The CLI uses network requests and subprocesses for its Halfcycle and Claude Code functions, which match the package’s stated purpose., The reviewed manifest has build and typecheck scripts but no install lifecycle hook.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to halfcycle@0.4.17.

- Review the evidence and your use of halfcycle@0.4.17 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. 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@0.4.17/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L19185: // dist/git.js
L19186: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L19187: 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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/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
L8228: // dist/control-origin.js
L8229: var DEFAULT_CONTROL_ORIGIN = "https://control.halfcycle.ai";
L8230: function resolveControlOrigin(env = process.env) {
L8231: const configured = env["HALFCYCLE_SERVICE_URL"]?.trim();
...
L8240: // dist/device-signin.js
L8241: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L8242: 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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9488: // dist/pre-create-checks.js
L9489: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L9490: import { existsSync as existsSync5, readFileSync as readFileSync7, realpathSync } from "node:fs";
L9491: import { delimiter, dirname as dirname4, join as join7 } from "node:path";
L9492: 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.';
L9493: 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@0.4.17/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@0.4.17/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:** 0.4.17
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-30T16:33:33.327Z
- **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:** 3,529,111 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.4.17>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle>)
- [Homepage](<https://halfcycle.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle/issues>)