instabox@0.8.38
⚠ Under reviewA cloud box for your coding agent, the instabox CLI and its agent skills in one command: npx instabox@latest
AI Security Review
scanned 7d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no npm install lifecycle hook, and the inspected JavaScript findings do not establish an attack. Native CLI behavior remains materially unresolved because one analysis is incomplete and five are unsupported, so a clean verdict is not established.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
Running an instabox CLI command on a supported platform.
Impact
Whether those executables perform harmful actions cannot be determined from the available inspection.
Mechanism
The package dispatches commands to bundled native executables; available offline analysis is incomplete or unsupported for these artifacts.
AI rationale
The manifest has no npm install lifecycle hook, and the inspected JavaScript findings do not establish an attack. Native CLI behavior remains materially unresolved because one analysis is incomplete and five are unsupported, so a clean verdict is not established.
Evidence
.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/0-e63bd4197464.txt.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/1-9c69b4ae32fe.txt.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/2-14a885cea602.txt.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/3-51aea6736c3e.txt.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/4-d2092ec10dc8.txt.lpm-inspection-a3IjE4/5-1bf7ce48b1ba.txtcli/instabox-windows-arm64.execli/instabox-windows-amd64.execli/instabox-darwin-arm64cli/instabox-linux-amd64cli/instabox-darwin-amd64cli/instabox-linux-arm64
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Manual Review at 93.0% confidence as Unknown with medium false-positive risk.
AI review observations
- package.json lists no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook.
- The flagged history script writes transformed files to a destination during its migration operation.
- The CLI runs a bundled native executable for the requested command.
- Native executable behavior remains unresolved: the Windows x64 analysis reports uninspected call targets, and the other five platform analyses are unsupported or failed.
Evidence against
- The package installs its own skills into user skill folders during CLI onboarding; it supports --no-skills and preserves existing copies not marked as installed by instabox.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
5 flaggedbin/instabox.mjsView file
•Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
sync(join(dir, rel), { withfiletypes: true })
.sort((a, b) => a.name.localecompare(b.name))
.flatmap((e) => {
const r = rel ? `${rel}/${e.name}` : e.name;
return e.isdirectory() ? skillfiles(dir, r) : e.isfile() ? [r] : [];
});
}
const retired_skills = [
'instabox-migrate',
'instabox-move-all',
];
function removeretiredskills(roots) {
const removed = new set();
for (const root of roots)
for (const n of retired_skills) {
try {
High
External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.
bin/instabox.mjsView on unpkgcli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeView file
•path = cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 8777728
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
Ships Native Binary
Package ships native binary artifacts.
cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeFindings
1 High5 Medium6 Low
HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationbin/instabox.mjs
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 Evidenceskills/instabox-move-repo/scripts/history.mjs
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to instabox@0.8.38.
See all versions of instabox for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of instabox@0.8.38 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.
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