---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/inplan/v/0.2.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/inplan/v/0.2.1.md"
package: "inplan"
report_status: "published"
title: "inplan@0.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.2.1"
---

# inplan@0.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Persistent agent behavior changes and disclosure of assistant output/tool activity to Inplan's document channel.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.2.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. npm postinstall modifies existing Claude, Codex, and Pi agent control surfaces without a user command. The installed hooks/extensions collect agent messages and tool activity for relay to Inplan documents, including cloud-backed documents.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T03:23:25.396Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T03:24:19.139Z
- **Download time:** 754 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3356 ms
- **AI review time:** 49633 ms
- **Total time:** 53743 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm postinstall modifies existing Claude, Codex, and Pi agent control surfaces without a user command. The installed hooks/extensions collect agent messages and tool activity for relay to Inplan documents, including cloud-backed documents.

- **Trigger:** npm install of inplan@0.2.1 when an agent root exists

- **Impact:** Persistent agent behavior changes and disclosure of assistant output/tool activity to Inplan's document channel.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/cli.js, skill/SKILL.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-24T03:24:19.139Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** install-time foreign AI-agent skill, permission, hook, and extension injection with transcript relay

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package runs install-skill automatically and ignores failures. Where agent directories already exist, it plants skills, modifies Claude permissions, registers Claude/Codex lifecycle hooks, and installs an auto-loaded Pi extension. Those hooks read agent messages, transcript paths, and tool input/activity, then relay the derived text to an active Inplan document; cloud documents use the package's remote backend. This is unconsented install-time mutation of broad, foreign AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms a concrete postinstall chain that persists hooks/extensions across third-party AI-agent environments and relays agent activity. This meets the block policy regardless of the opt-out environment variable.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/skills/inplan/SKILL.md, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.codex/skills/inplan/SKILL.md, ~/.codex/hooks.json, ~/.pi/agent/skills/inplan/SKILL.md, ~/.pi/agent/extensions/inplan-relay.ts

- **Network endpoints:** https://inplan.ai, wss://inplan-collab.fly.dev

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** postinstall silently invokes install-skill., It writes skills into existing Claude, Pi, and Codex agent directories., It adds Claude auto-approval rules and relay hooks., It installs a Pi auto-loaded extension that forwards assistant text and tool activity., Relay handlers read agent transcript paths and forward messages to local or cloud documents.

- **Evidence against:** Installation skips absent agent roots and supports INPLAN\_NO\_SKILL\_INSTALL opt-out., No standalone credential-harvesting or unrelated destructive payload was confirmed.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/cli.js install-skill --quiet || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/cli.js install-skill --quiet || true
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl\_t.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl_t.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27324: }
L27325: fork() {
L27326: return new FlatBufferCursor(this.buffer, this.index);
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2624: const r = spawnSync(
L2625: "powershell.exe",
L2626: ["-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-Command", "Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $env:INPLAN_ZIP_PATH -DestinationPath $env:INPLAN_DEST_DIR -Force"],
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl\_t.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl_t.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L48331: }
L48332: if (!pluginMod) pluginMod = await import(
L48333: /* @vite-ignore */
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** app/main/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/app/main/index.cjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: const electron = require("electron");
L3: const node_child_process = require("node:child_process");
L4: const node_crypto = require("node:crypto");
...
L12: const os = require("os");
L13: const node_http = require("node:http");
L14: const APP_ICON_DATA_URL = "data:image/png;base64,[redacted]...
L15: var BLOCK_OPEN = "<!--inplan";
...
L436: function sidecarRoot() {
L437: if (process.env.INPLAN_SIDECAR_DIR) return process.env.INPLAN_SIDECAR_DIR;
L438: const home = process.env.INPLAN_HOME || path.join(os.homedir(), ".inplan");
L439: return path.join(home, "sidecars");
...
L591: fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/bin/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
L1724: // src/update.ts
L1725: import { spawn as spawn2 } from "child_process";
L1726: var UPDATE_PKG = process.env.INPLAN_PKG || "inplan";
L1727: function compareVersions(a, b) {
...
L1739: try {
L1740: const res = await fetch(`https://registry.npmjs.org/${pkg.replace("/", "%2F")}/latest`, {
L1741: headers: { accept: "application/json" },
```

### 12. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/bin/cli.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
bin/cli.js:
import { appendFileSync as appendFileSync3, copyFileSync, existsSync as existsSync11, mkdirSync as mkdirSync10, readdirSync as readdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync11, realpat...
/** In-window navigation: the editor followed a Markdown link to a sibling doc.
writeFileSync
import { existsSync as existsSync4, mkdirSync as mkdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync3, writeFileSync as writeFileSync2 } from "fs";
import { existsSync as existsSync6, mkdirSync as mkdirSync4, readFileSync as readFileSync5, writeFileSync as writeFileSync4 } from "fs";
import { existsSync as existsSync7, mkdirSync as mkdirSync5, readFileSync as readFileSync6, writeFil
```

### 13. High: Unverified Remote Native Payload Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/package.json>)

Install-time source downloads a native archive from a fixed external host without transport verification, extracts it, and installs an executable payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/cli.js install-skill --quiet || true
Install-time code downloads an unverified remote native archive, stages it locally, activates an executable path, and exposes it to process execution.
L3: // src/cli.ts
L4: import { execFileSync as execFileSync2, spawn as spawn3, spawnSync } from "child_process";
L5: import { createHash as createHash4, randomBytes } from "crypto";
L6: import { createRequire } from "module";
L7: import { appendFileSync as appendFileSync3, copyFileSync, existsSync as existsSync11, mkdirSync as mkdirSync10, readdirSync as readdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync11, realpat...
L8: import { homedir as homedir7 } from "os";
...
L87: } else if (!inFence) {
L88: const trimmed = line.trimStart();
L89: if (trimmed.startsWith(BLOCK_OPEN)) return of
```

### 14. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/bin/cli.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import { createRequire } from "module";
L7: import { appendFileSync as appendFileSync3, copyFileSync, existsSync as existsSync11, mkdirSync as mkdirSync10, readdirSync as readdirSync2, readFileSync as readFileSync11, realpat...
L8: import { homedir as homedir7 } from "os";
...
L244: // ../core/dist/node.js
L245: import { appendFileSync, closeSync, existsSync, openSync, readFileSync, readSync, statSync } from "fs";
L246: import {
L247: existsSync as existsSync2,
L248: mkdirSync,
L249: readdirSync,
...
L257: watchFile,
L258: writeFileSync
L259: } from "fs";
```

### 15. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/bin/cli.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
e, payload: { text } });
    } else if (route.kind === "local") {
      const p = docpaths(file);
      mkdirsync10(p.controldir, { recursive: true });
      await new fscontrolchannel(p).append({ actor: "agent", type: logeventtype.agentmessage, payload: { text } });
    }
  } catch {
  }
}
async function dorelay(args) {
  const file = activedocforcwd(process.cwd());
  if (!file) {
    output({ status: "relay_skipped", reason: "no_active_doc" });
    return;
  }
  const hook = getflag(args, "hook");
  let notes;
  if (hook) {
    let stdin = "";
    if (hook !== "codex-notify") {
      try {
        stdin = readfilesync11(0, "utf8");
      } catch {
      }
    }
    notes = notesfromhook(hook, stdin
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 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.

### 19. Low: Copyleft License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest declares a copyleft-style license.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl\_t.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/app/renderer/assets/index-Cv94hl_t.js>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_trace_path_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** app/main/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/inplan@0.2.1/app/main/index.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = inplan@0.2.0
matchedPath = app/main/index.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:aW5wbGFu:0.2.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @hocuspocus/provider ^2.15.3 (Dependency)
- @supabase/supabase-js ^2.45.0 (Dependency)
- electron ^43.4.1 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.0 (Dependency)
- yjs ^13.6.31 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** inplan
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.1
- **License:** AGPL-3.0-or-later
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T03:20:26.273Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T01:18:22.468Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T03:24:19.139Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.2.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** inplan — a Markdown editor for human ⇄ coding-agent planning. CLI + desktop editor.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>= 22.12.0
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,226,782 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/inplan/v/0.2.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/melly-lgtm/inplan.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://inplan.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/melly-lgtm/inplan/issues>)