---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/happyskills/v/1.19.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/happyskills/v/1.19.0.md"
package: "happyskills"
report_status: "published"
title: "happyskills@1.19.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.19.0"
---

# happyskills@1.19.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.19.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis flagged 13 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-06T04:24:26.349Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-06T04:24:28.108Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1498 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1759 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to happyskills@1.19.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of happyskills@1.19.0 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. Critical: Critical Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/scrub\_secrets.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/happyskills@1.19.0/src/utils/scrub_secrets.test.js>)

Package contains a critical-looking secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 16
matchedText = assert.e...}.`)
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/integration/drift.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/happyskills@1.19.0/src/integration/drift.test.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: const assert = require('node:assert/strict')
L28: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process')
L29: const fs = require('fs')
```

### 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:** src/integration/api\_envelope.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/happyskills@1.19.0/src/integration/api_envelope.test.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L84: // without calling process.exit so the Node event loop holds the process
L85: // open until undici's keep-alive sockets idle out (~30s). spawnSync only
L86: // captures output AFTER the child exits, so it would hang. Streaming
...
L91: const final_args = has_mode_flag ? args : [...args, '--text']
L92: const child = spawn(NODE, [CLI, ...final_args], {
L93: // Isolate the CLI config dir so the spawned binary never reads the
...
L98: // that needs a specific config dir overrides this via env_override (last).
L99: env: { ...process.env, NO_COLOR: '1', CI: '', XDG_CONFIG_HOME: make_tmp(), ...env_override },
L100: })
```

### 8. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** src/commands/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/happyskills@1.19.0/src/commands/self-update.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: 
L36: const run_npm_install = () => catch_errors('npm install failed', async () => {
L37: const { spawn } = require('child_process')
L38: const stdio = is_json_mode() ? 'pipe' : 'inherit'
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 12. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 13. Critical: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/utils/scrub\_secrets.test.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/happyskills@1.19.0/src/utils/scrub_secrets.test.js>)

AWS access key ID in src/utils/scrub\_secrets.test.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = aws_access_key
severity = critical
line = 16
matchedText = assert.e...}.`)
```

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

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

### Published dependency entries
- @jimp/core 1.6.1 (Dependency)
- @jimp/js-jpeg 1.6.1 (Dependency)
- @jimp/js-png 1.6.1 (Dependency)
- @jimp/plugin-resize 1.6.1 (Dependency)
- core-async ^3.1.0 (Dependency)
- node-diff3 3.2.0 (Dependency)
- puffy-core 1.3.1 (Dependency)
- semver 7.7.4 (Dependency)
- tar-stream 3.1.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** happyskills
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.19.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-07-06T04:22:26.799Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T06:01:28.236Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T18:32:49.690Z
- **Known versions:** 21
- **Latest version:** 4.3.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Package manager for AI agent skills
- **Author:** Nicolas Dao
- **Maintainers:** neapnic
- **Keywords:** cli, skills, package-manager, ai, claude, agent, dependency-resolution
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 232
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,612,684 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/happyskills/v/1.19.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/cloudlesslabs/skillsbang>)
- [Homepage](<https://happyskills.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/cloudlesslabs/skillsbang/issues>)
