instabox@0.8.152
A cloud box for your coding agent, the instabox CLI and its agent skills in one command: npx instabox@latest
AI Security Review
scanned 20h ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package has no install lifecycle hook, and the CLI's network, credential, and file operations serve its documented Instabox workflows. Onboarding telemetry is disclosed, limited to usage and runtime fields, and has an opt-out.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
User invocation of the CLI or a skill workflow; no npm install hook is declared.
Impact
No malicious impact identified; credential use and file transfers serve the requested Instabox features.
Mechanism
The CLI uses the Instabox API and disclosed, opt-out onboarding analytics. The move-repo helper downloads toolchains when the user runs that setup workflow.
AI rationale
The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the CLI's network, credential, and file operations serve its documented Instabox workflows. Onboarding telemetry is disclosed, limited to usage and runtime fields, and has an opt-out.
Evidence
~/.config/instabox/credentials.json~/.config/instabox/telemetry.json~/.claude/skills/~/.agents/skills/~/.gemini/config/skills//usr/local/bin/instabox~/.local/bin/instabox
Network endpoints9
api.instabox.shus.i.posthog.com/batch/mise.runraw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.3/install.shbun.sh/installastral.sh/uv/install.shsh.rustup.rsgo.dev/VERSION?m=textgo.dev/dl/${v}.linux-${arch}.tar.gz
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 94.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- package.json declares only prepack, test, and formatting scripts; it has no install lifecycle hook.
- The CLI dispatches work based on the command the user runs, including onboarding, skill installation, or forwarding a command to the bundled CLI.
- Telemetry is described as sending command names and outcomes, never arguments, and can be disabled with INSTABOX_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1; it is gated to the default Instabox server.
- The onboarding telemetry event contains usage and runtime fields such as outcome, duration, agent, OS, architecture, and Node version.
- API credentials are sent as bearer tokens to the configured Instabox server for its API requests.
- The dependency helper is documented as a script to run for a moved project's toolchain setup; its downloads support that task.
Evidence against
- The move-repo skill copies .git and conversation history to the user's box by default, and notes that these may contain tokens or other secrets; it tells the user to ask whether to skip history.
- The package includes platform-specific native CLI binaries whose contents were not fully readable in the available binary views.
Source & flagged code
5 flaggedcli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeView file
•path = cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 9172480
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
Ships Native Binary
Package ships native binary artifacts.
cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeView on unpkgskills/instabox-basic-setup/scripts/install-files.pyView file
•path = skills/instabox-basic-setup/scripts/install-files.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2977
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
Ships Build Helper
Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.
skills/instabox-basic-setup/scripts/install-files.pyView on unpkgpackage.jsonView file
Findings
5 Medium7 Low
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumShips Native Binarycli/instabox-windows-arm64.exe
MediumShips Build Helperskills/instabox-basic-setup/scripts/install-files.py
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
LowAi Review Evidencebin/instabox.mjs
LowAi Review Evidencelib/telemetry.mjs
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to instabox@0.8.152.
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