---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay/v/0.68.7.md"
package: "llm-relay"
report_status: "published"
title: "llm-relay@0.68.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.68.7"
---

# llm-relay@0.68.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 0.68.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. A global npm install automatically changes several AI-host skill directories and Codex configuration. This is a first-party relay extension, but it alters host control surfaces without a separate setup command.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T17:34:48.868Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T17:36:15.950Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4328 ms
- **AI review time:** 82242 ms
- **Total time:** 87082 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global npm install automatically changes several AI-host skill directories and Codex configuration. This is a first-party relay extension, but it alters host control surfaces without a separate setup command.

- **Trigger:** Installing llm-relay globally through npm, or manually forcing the setup script.

- **Impact:** Codex can be configured to route through the local llm-relay provider and invoke its MCP command; Claude Code and OpenCode receive the package skill bundle.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/install-skill.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T17:36:15.950Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall provisioning of AI-host skills, a Codex provider, and an MCP server.

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook automatically mutates third-party AI-agent configuration, but the inspected setup is package-specific, globally gated, and loopback-oriented. This warrants a warning rather than a block because no concrete exfiltration, remote payload execution, or broad control takeover was established.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/skills/llm-relay, ~/.codex/skills/llm-relay, ~/.codex/config.toml, $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/opencode/skills/llm-relay

- **Network endpoints:** 127.0.0.1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** An automatic postinstall hook runs the host-setup script., On global installation, the script copies its skill into Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode directories., The hook appends a provider and MCP server entry to Codex's global configuration., If Codex detection fails, the script proceeds with Codex provisioning anyway.

- **Evidence against:** The hook exits without changes for ordinary local installs unless manually forced., The observed setup points Codex at a loopback relay; no credential collection or external exfiltration was found in the inspected lifecycle path., No runtime dependency on another llm-relay release was declared.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to llm-relay@0.68.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of llm-relay@0.68.7 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.

## 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@0.68.7/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@0.68.7/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. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-skill.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/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, ~/.codex or the XDG config dir. Because the self-updater reinstalls the global
L10: * package on a new version, every host's skill description and the missing Codex setup refresh
...
L22: */
L23: import { copyFileSync, mkdirSync, existsSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L24: import { join, dirname } from "node:path";
...
L79: if (!existsSync(configPath)) {
L80: writeFileSync(configPath, CODEX_PROVIDER_BLOCK, "utf8");
L81: return "configured";
...
L92: }
L93: writeFileSync(configPath, `${current}${separator}${CODEX_PROVIDER_BLOCK}`, "utf8");
L94: return "configured";
```

### 9. 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@0.68.7/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 { relaystatepath } from "./state-paths.js";
import { existssync, mkdirsync, readfilesync, writefilesync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { homedir, tmpdir } from "node:os";
export const agent_hook_filename = "llm-relay-agent-offload.mjs";
export function claudehookpaths(home = homedir()) {
    if (process.env.vitest && home === homedir()) {
        const vitesthome = join(tmpdir(), "llm-relay-vitest");
        return {
            settings: join(vitesthome, ".claude", "settings.json"),
            script: join(vitesthome, "hooks", agent_hook_filename),
        };
    }
    return {
        settings: join(home, ".claude", "settings.json"),
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/config.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/config.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
```

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/self-update.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/lane-quota-probe.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/lane-quota-probe.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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/lane-quota-probe.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/os-keyring.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/os-keyring.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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/os-keyring.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/winenv.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/winenv.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/sync-tiers.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/scripts/sync-tiers.mjs>)

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@0.62.0
matchedPath = scripts/sync-tiers.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/accounting-store-schema.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/accounting-store-schema.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@0.68.5
matchedPath = dist/accounting-store-schema.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.68.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/dashboard-routes.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/dashboard-routes.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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/dashboard-routes.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/reshaper.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/reshaper.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@0.62.0
matchedPath = dist/reshaper.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.62.0
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/llm-relay@0.68.7/dist/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = llm-relay@0.68.6
matchedIdentity = npm:bGxtLXJlbGF5:0.68.6
similarity = 0.658
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 3
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 29
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- ajv ^8.17.1 (Dependency)
- llm-bridge ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.7.2 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** llm-relay
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.68.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T17:31:57.080Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-28T18:45:36.121Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T01:22:51.461Z
- **Known versions:** 87
- **Latest version:** 0.86.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Loopback bidirectional Anthropic/OpenAI API proxy with tool-call validation and multi-provider routing.
- **Deprecated:** Retired 2026-09-23; no longer maintained.
- **Maintainers:** wheatiest
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 389
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,875,246 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-relay/v/0.68.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/OhOkThisIsFine/llm-relay/issues>)