instabox@0.8.66
A cloud box for your coding agent, the instabox CLI and its agent skills in one command: npx instabox@latest
AI Security Review
scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package has no npm install hook, and the reviewed network, credential, telemetry, and file-write behavior supports its stated CLI and agent-skill purpose. Its runtime telemetry is limited, disclosed, and can be disabled; the download helper is invoked by the CLI or by a user-directed skill workflow.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
User invokes the CLI; onboarding can sign in, install the CLI and skills, and optionally create a box. Migration helper actions run only when the user follows the skill workflow.
Impact
Normal operation can send account-authorized requests to Instabox, report limited usage metadata, and write the package’s skills into agent skill folders.
Mechanism
The CLI contacts the configured Instabox API, sends limited usage events to PostHog when enabled, and installs skills under user-level agent skill directories.
AI rationale
The package has no npm install hook, and the reviewed network, credential, telemetry, and file-write behavior supports its stated CLI and agent-skill purpose. Its runtime telemetry is limited, disclosed, and can be disabled; the download helper is invoked by the CLI or by a user-directed skill workflow.
Evidence
~/.claude/skills~/.agents/skillsInstabox CLI install directoryInstabox telemetry config directory
Network endpoints8
api.instabox.shus.i.posthog.commise.runraw.githubusercontent.combun.shastral.shsh.rustup.rsgo.dev
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 93.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest defines a CLI executable and no install, preinstall, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
- Onboarding telemetry reports usage outcomes and limited runtime metadata, excludes names, paths, messages, and command arguments, and discloses an opt-out.
- Telemetry is sent only when using the package’s default Instabox server, and can be disabled with documented environment variables.
- The API client sends bearer credentials to its configured Instabox API server; the default is api.instabox.sh.
- The CLI’s download-and-run installer is used when invoked as a command and no local CLI is available.
- Agent skills are copied to user-level skill directories as part of onboarding, consistent with the package’s stated purpose.
Evidence against
- The package includes an install helper that downloads third-party runtimes, but it is part of the explicitly invoked repository-migration workflow rather than an npm install hook.
- Native binaries are shipped for the CLI’s platforms, and the package includes a SHA256SUMS file for them.
Behavioral surface
Source & flagged code
5 flaggedcli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeView file
•path = cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 8968192
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@0.8.66.
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