---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lean-ctx-bin/v/3.9.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lean-ctx-bin/v/3.9.0.md"
package: "lean-ctx-bin"
report_status: "published"
title: "lean-ctx-bin@3.9.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "3.9.0"
---

# lean-ctx-bin@3.9.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 9 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 3.9.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 9 finding(s) at 72.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-05T20:57:09.230Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-05T20:57:09.510Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 25 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 280 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/lean-ctx-bin@3.9.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/lean-ctx-bin@3.9.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/lean-ctx-bin@3.9.0/postinstall.js>)

Install-named source file stages remote content through filesystem writes and execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: 
L4: const { execSync } = require("child_process");
L5: const fs = require("fs");
L6: const path = require("path");
L7: const https = require("https");
L8: const { createGunzip } = require("zlib");
L9: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L11: const REPO = "yvgude/lean-ctx";
L12: const BIN_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "bin");
L13: const IS_WIN = process.platform === "win32";
L14: const BINARY_NAME = IS_WIN ? "lean-ctx.exe" : "lean-ctx";
```

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** lean-ctx-bin
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.9.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-05T20:56:47.005Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T05:14:53.142Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T12:51:51.233Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 3.9.18
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** LeanCTX — the Context OS for AI coding agents. One local binary that compresses, remembers, routes, and verifies every token between your code and the model. No Rust required.
- **Maintainers:** pounce\_ch
- **Keywords:** lean-ctx, context-os, context-engineering, mcp, llm, context, claude, cursor, ai, ai-agents, code-graph, token-optimization
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=16
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 10,733 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lean-ctx-bin/v/3.9.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/yvgude/lean-ctx>)
- [Homepage](<https://leanctx.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/yvgude/lean-ctx/issues>)