---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.7.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.7.1.md"
package: "halfcycle"
report_status: "published"
title: "halfcycle@0.7.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.7.1"
---

# halfcycle@0.7.1 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:** 0.7.1
- **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 package has no install hook, and its CLI starts through the declared command entrypoint. Credential use is directed to the configured Halfcycle service, while the bundled runner excludes credential-like paths from saving.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T03:33:05.692Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T03:34:16.842Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5705 ms
- **AI review time:** 64935 ms
- **Total time:** 71150 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 package provides project workflow and build tooling.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when a user invokes it; library behavior requires a consuming application to call its exported APIs.

- **Impact:** No unauthorized collection, account action, or destructive behavior was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T03:34:16.842Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The tool communicates with the configured Halfcycle service and uses service credentials for its API requests.

- **Rationale:** The package has no install hook, and its CLI starts through the declared command entrypoint. Credential use is directed to the configured Halfcycle service, while the bundled runner excludes credential-like paths from saving.

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a library at dist/index.js and a CLI at dist/bin.js., The CLI entrypoint loads dist/cli.js when the command runs; the manifest has no install lifecycle hook., The default control service is control.halfcycle.ai, with an explicit HALFCYCLE\_SERVICE\_URL override., Build-record requests use the configured service URL and send the service credential as a bearer token., The bundled runner marks credential-like paths as neverSaved.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to halfcycle@0.7.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of halfcycle@0.7.1 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@0.7.1/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15166: const program = [
L15167: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`),c=require(`child_process`);",
L15168: "let d=process.cwd();",
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/bin.bundle.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/bin/bin.bundle.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14671: var WRITE_CAPABLE_TOOLS = ["Edit", "MultiEdit", "NotebookEdit", "Write"];
L14672: var PRE_TOOL_USE_MATCHER = "^(Bash|Read|Grep|Write|Edit|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|Agent|PowerShell)$";
L14673: 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@0.7.1/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 ?? $ZodError)(result.issues.map((iss) => finalizeIssue(iss, ctx, config())))
L1488: } : { success: true, data: result.value };
L1489: };
...
L14671: var WRITE_CAPABLE_TOOLS = ["Edit", "MultiEdit", "NotebookEdit", "Write"];
L14672: var PRE_TOOL_USE_MATCHER = "^(Bash|Read|Grep|Write|Edit|MultiEdit|NotebookEdit|Agent|PowerShell)$";
L14673: 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@0.7.1/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
L10832: // dist/control-origin.js
L10833: var DEFAULT_CONTROL_ORIGIN = "https://control.halfcycle.ai";
L10834: function resolveControlOrigin(env = process.env) {
L10835: const configured = env["HALFCYCLE_SERVICE_URL"]?.trim();
...
L10844: // dist/device-signin.js
L10845: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L10846: import { platform as platform3 } from "node:os";
```

### 10. Critical: Reverse Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 92.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/dist/cli.js>)

Source matches reverse-shell style process and socket wiring.

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") {
...
L268: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L269: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L270: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1881: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`),c=require(`child_process`);",
L1882: "let d=process.cwd();",
L1883: `for(;;){if(f.existsSync(p.join(d,${tick(VENDORED_BIN_REL)})))br
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/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
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") {
...
L268: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L269: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L270: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1881: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`),c=require(`child_process`);",
L1882: "let d=process.cwd();",
L1883: `for(;;){if(f.existsSync(p.join(d,${tick(VENDORED_BIN_REL)})))br
```

### 12. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/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.
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") {
...
L268: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L269: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L270: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1881: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`
```

### 13. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/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/bin.js -> dist/cli.js
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") {
...
L268: // `password=...`, `token = ...`, `access_key: ...` — the value need not be quoted.
L269: /\b(?:api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|access[_-]?key|private[_-]?key|client[_-]?secret|auth[_-]?token|bearer)\b\s*[:=]\s*\S+/i,
L270: // Connection strings that embed credentials: `scheme://user:pass@host`.
...
L1881: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`),c=require(`child_process`);",
L1882: "let d=process.cwd();",
L18
```

### 14. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/halfcycle@0.7.1/dist/cli.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1874: }
L1875: var CODEX_WINDOWS_NOT_SET_UP = "Halfcycle checks did not run because Halfcycle is not set up in this folder or any folder above it; run npx halfcycle in the project folder.";
L1876: var CODEX_WINDOWS_NO_GIT_BASH = "Halfcycle checks did not run because Git for Windows was not found; install Git for Windows, then open a new session.";
...
L1880: const program = [
L1881: "const p=require(`path`),f=require(`fs`),c=require(`child_process`);",
L1882: "let d=process.cwd();",
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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@0.7.1/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 = 27575
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** halfcycle
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.7.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T03:25:35.311Z
- **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 for Claude Code and Codex.
- **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:** 150
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,034,394 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/halfcycle/v/0.7.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle>)
- [Homepage](<https://halfcycle.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Halfcycle-AI/halfcycle/issues>)