---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay/v/0.43.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay/v/0.43.0.md"
package: "llm-relay"
report_status: "published"
title: "llm-relay@0.43.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.43.0"
---

# llm-relay@0.43.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Subsequent Claude Code/Codex sessions can load package-supplied instructions and route default child-agent requests through the package's local relay.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.43.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. A postinstall hook runs during global npm installation and modifies Claude Code and Codex configuration. It installs skills, appends a relay provider, and creates a generic default Codex child-agent profile.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T03:59:14.462Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T04:00:19.010Z
- **Download time:** 771 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3144 ms
- **AI review time:** 60631 ms
- **Total time:** 64548 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A postinstall hook runs during global npm installation and modifies Claude Code and Codex configuration. It installs skills, appends a relay provider, and creates a generic default Codex child-agent profile.

- **Trigger:** npm install -g llm-relay

- **Impact:** Subsequent Claude Code/Codex sessions can load package-supplied instructions and route default child-agent requests through the package's local relay.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-skill.mjs, skills/llm-relay/SKILL.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-24T04:00:19.010Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** install-time mutation of foreign AI-agent skills, provider configuration, and default agent routing

- **Attack narrative:** Installing this package globally automatically executes a postinstall hook. The hook writes skills into Claude Code and Codex directories, adds a Codex provider at the package relay endpoint, and creates a default Codex child-agent profile that selects that provider. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of foreign AI-agent control surfaces and changes future agent routing.

- **Rationale:** Direct source inspection confirms an npm postinstall hook that mutates external Claude Code and Codex configuration during global installation. The default-agent override and provider insertion establish the concrete AI-agent control-surface attack chain required for blocking.

- **Files touched:** scripts/install-skill.mjs, skills/llm-relay/SKILL.md, ~/.claude/skills/llm-relay/SKILL.md, ~/.codex/skills/llm-relay/SKILL.md, ~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.codex/agents/default.toml, ~/.codex/agents/relay\_coding.toml

- **Network endpoints:** http://127.0.0.1:8791/v1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** npm postinstall executes install-skill.mjs., On global installation, the hook copies a bundled skill into Claude Code and Codex user directories., The hook appends a Codex model provider pointing to its loopback relay., The hook creates ~/.codex/agents/default.toml, overriding the generic default child-agent route.

- **Evidence against:** The hook exits for ordinary non-global installs unless manually forced., No credential exfiltration or remote payload download was found in the inspected install hook.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/install-skill.mjs || node -e "process.stderr.write('llm-relay: the postinstall hook crashed, so the bundled host skills and Codex setup were NOT fully installed. The p...
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/install-skill.mjs || node -e "process.stderr.write('llm-relay: the postinstall hook crashed, so the bundled host skills and Codex setup were NOT fully installed. The p...
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Entrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwrite
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/self-update.js>)

Manifest-reachable source overwrites another installed package with package-defined remote behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source resolves another installed package, overwrites its runtime code, and injects package-defined remote behavior.
dist/self-update.js:
import { existsSync, mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
const REGISTRY = "https://registry.npmjs.org";
writeFileSync(cacheFile(), JSON.stringify({ checkedAt: now, latest }), "utf8");
```

### 9. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/scripts/install-skill.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: * so that a repo-local `npm install` (dev checkout, CI) never touches the developer's
L9: * ~/.claude or ~/.codex. Because the self-updater reinstalls the global package on a new
L10: * version, both skill descriptions and the missing Codex setup refresh on every upgrade with
...
L22: */
L23: import { copyFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L24: import { join, dirname } from "node:path";
...
L62: if (!existsSync(configPath)) {
L63: writeFileSync(configPath, CODEX_PROVIDER_BLOCK, "utf8");
L64: return "configured";
...
L75: }
L76: writeFileSync(configPath, `${current}${separator}${CODEX_PROVIDER_BLOCK}`, "utf8");
L77: return "configured";
```

### 10. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/scripts/install-skill.mjs>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
t agent of codex_agents) {
    const result = ensurecodexagent(agentdir, agent);
    process.stderr.write(`llm-relay: codex agent ${result.status} at ${result.path}\n`);
  }
}

try {
  const force = process.argv.includes("--force");

  const here = dirname(fileurltopath(import.meta.url));
                                                                                               
                                                                                                  
                                                               
  const pkgdir = join(here, "..");
  const normalizedpkgdir = pkgdir.replace(/\\/g, "/");
  const cleanpkgdir = normalizedpkgdir.endswith("/") ? normalizedpkgdi
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/claude-hook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/claude-hook.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
import { existssync, mkdirsync, readfilesync, writefilesync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { homedir } from "node:os";
```

### 12. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.38.0
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.38.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/self-update.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.38.0
matchedPath = dist/self-update.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.38.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/refusal-interpretation.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/refusal-interpretation.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.38.0
matchedPath = dist/refusal-interpretation.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.38.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/secret-file-acl.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/secret-file-acl.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.38.0
matchedPath = dist/secret-file-acl.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.38.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/winenv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.43.0/dist/winenv.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.38.0
matchedPath = dist/winenv.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.38.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 30
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- ajv ^8.17.1 (Dependency)
- llm-bridge ^2.0.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** llm-relay
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.43.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T03:58:32.384Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-28T18:45:36.121Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T04:00:19.010Z
- **Known versions:** 26
- **Latest version:** 0.43.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Loopback bidirectional Anthropic/OpenAI API proxy with tool-call validation and multi-provider routing.
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 272
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,458,755 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay/v/0.43.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay/issues>)