instabox@0.8.81
A cloud box for your coding agent, the instabox CLI and its agent skills in one command: npx instabox@latest
AI Security Review
scanned 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package provides an Instabox CLI and agent skills, with no install lifecycle hook. Its inspected network, credential, skill-installation, and telemetry behavior is consistent with that purpose and is documented in the source.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
User invokes the instabox CLI; onboarding and box creation occur only for the corresponding commands.
Impact
Expected CLI setup and cloud-box operations; telemetry can be disabled with INSTABOX_NO_TELEMETRY=1 or DO_NOT_TRACK=1.
Mechanism
The CLI communicates with the configured Instabox API, can download and run that service’s installer, copies package skills to agent skill directories, and sends command outcome and runtime metadata to PostHog when enabled.
AI rationale
The package provides an Instabox CLI and agent skills, with no install lifecycle hook. Its inspected network, credential, skill-installation, and telemetry behavior is consistent with that purpose and is documented in the source.
Evidence
~/.config/instabox/credentials.json~/.config/instabox/telemetry.json~/.claude/skills/~/.agents/skills/
Network endpoints2
api.instabox.shus.i.posthog.com
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- package.json declares no install lifecycle hook; its executable is bin/instabox.mjs.
- Skill installation copies this package’s skills into agent skill directories and does not sign in or contact the network.
- Telemetry is disclosed as command names and outcomes, never arguments, and has documented opt-outs.
- Onboarding telemetry contains outcome and runtime/platform metadata, not command arguments or file contents.
- API requests send the session token to the configured Instabox server.
- The documented secret workflow limits provider credentials to configured HTTPS hosts and keeps real keys out of the box.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
5 flaggedcli/instabox-windows-arm64.exeView file
•path = cli/instabox-windows-arm64.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 8981504
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 Evidencelib/skills.mjs
LowAi Review Evidencelib/telemetry.mjs
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to instabox@0.8.81.
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