---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/local-operator-ui"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/local-operator-ui/v/0.31.17.md"
package: "local-operator-ui"
report_status: "published"
title: "local-operator-ui@0.31.17 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.31.17"
---

# local-operator-ui@0.31.17 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 20 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:** 0.31.17
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

The AI recommended clean. Static policy retained a warning. The static scanner classified the package as malicious with confidence of at least 85%. A critical static finding has confidence of at least 90%. These conditions do not mean that the AI confirmed malicious behavior.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

No attack surface was identified in the inspected package code. The installer’s privileged filesystem operation is confined to the Electron sandbox helper.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-29T06:27:09.581Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-29T06:28:29.671Z
- **Download time:** 1527 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7460 ms
- **AI review time:** 71101 ms
- **Total time:** 80090 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:** No attack surface was identified in the inspected package code. The installer’s privileged filesystem operation is confined to the Electron sandbox helper.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package runs its declared postinstall hook; ordinary runtime behavior starts the Electron application.

- **Impact:** No confirmed credential theft, remote payload execution, broad agent configuration change, or destructive behavior was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-29T06:28:29.671Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The installer invokes a package-local helper, while the application uses session-scoped API routes and user-invoked UI actions.

- **Rationale:** The inspected agent-integration target is unrelated directory ranking, and the package’s runtime paths are consistent with an Electron application. The postinstall sandbox repair is constrained to the package’s Electron helper and does not establish a malicious chain.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Final policy explanation:** The AI recommended clean. Static policy retained a warning. The static scanner classified the package as malicious with confidence of at least 85%. A critical static finding has confidence of at least 90%. These conditions do not mean that the AI confirmed malicious behavior.

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package declares its Electron main entry point and CLI launcher, with a postinstall hook limited to its bundled installer helper., The flagged renderer location only ranks common project file names for a directory listing; it does not configure an external agent., The launcher starts the packaged Electron application and forwards user-supplied command-line arguments., The main process routes MCP operations to session-scoped desktop API paths., The schedules renderer opens a selected session or cancels a selected wake action., The Linux helper repairs only its opened sandbox-helper descriptor and returns an error outcome if modification is not permitted.

- **Evidence against:** The install hook can change ownership and mode of the Electron sandbox helper when installation has sufficient privileges.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to local-operator-ui@0.31.17.

- Review the evidence and your use of local-operator-ui@0.31.17 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/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/local-operator-ui.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/bin/local-operator-ui.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: 
L10: const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
L11: const path = require("node:path");
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** out/main/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/main/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3660: },
L3661: // `sh -c <script> <name> <pid>`: the name is $0 and the pid is $1, so the
L3662: // script text carries no path and no number that a process listing of it
```

### 6. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/bin/postinstall.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: *    step spawns the binary straight from `dist/` rather than through
L10: *    `require("electron")` (the one call that would fetch it on demand). So
L11: *    without this, a fresh clone or a cold CI runner fails its first
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Fixed External Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** out/main/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/main/index.js>)

Source captures command output, transforms it, and includes it in a POST body sent to a literal external destination.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
command output transform/external POST = ork; 30 is the stall bound and is deliberately well above a\n# slow-but-working link\'s answer time, because a probe that fails a working\n# connection is noise users learn to ignore.\n#\n# `--fail` turns an http error status into a non-zero exit (a proxy\'s 403/407,\n# any 4xx/5xx). it does not notice a captive portal answering 200 with its own\n# html page - measured, a portal-shaped 200 exits 0 with and without the flag -\n# so this check answers "did a request to the host complete", and the pypi probe\n# below is the one that also checks what came back.\ncheck_connectivity() {\n  log "checking network connectivity..."\n  local servers=("pypi.org" "bootstrap.pypa.io")\n  local has_connectivity=false\n  \n  for server in "${servers[@]}"; do\n    i
```

### 12. High: Remote Agent Bridge
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** out/main/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/main/index.js>)

Source exposes local file and command tools to a remote model endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: const zod = require("zod");
L10: const node_child_process = require("node:child_process");
L11: const node_crypto = require("node:crypto");
...
L959: // The remaining gated legacy writes and reads the renderer still issued as
L960: // bare same-origin `fetch`. `apiConfig.baseUrl` points AT THE BACKEND, not
L961: // through the main-process relay, so in managed mode these went out with no
...
L2959: try {
L2960: text = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
L2961: } catch {
```

### 13. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** out/renderer/assets/schedules-page-k2yi4LKh.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/renderer/assets/schedules-page-k2yi4LKh.js>)

Source contains bidi control or invisible Unicode characters associated with Trojan Source attacks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L13: contains invisible/control Unicode U+200E (left-to-right mark)
`));return typeof n=="string"?{type:n,contentType:n==="meridiem"?"letter":"digit",maxLength:void 0}:{type:n.sectionType,contentType:n.contentType,maxLength:n.maxLength}},ur=(e,t)=>{const n=[],o=e.date(void 0,"default"),r=e.startOfWeek(o),s=
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** out/renderer/assets/index-9kSbYL-A.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/renderer/assets/index-9kSbYL-A.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = out/renderer/assets/index-9kSbYL-A.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 5861119
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/linux-sandbox.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/bin/linux-sandbox.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 = 2
```

### 20. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** out/main/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.17/out/main/index.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 = local-operator-ui@0.31.15
matchedIdentity = npm:bG9jYWwtb3BlcmF0b3ItdWk:0.31.15
similarity = 0.424
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
- **Dependencies:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 2
- **Development dependencies:** 93
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 11

### Published dependency entries
- @electron-toolkit/utils ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/headless 6.0.0 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.5.0 (Dependency)
- electron-log ^4.4.8 (Dependency)
- electron-updater ^6.8.9 (Dependency)
- node-pty 1.1.0 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^4.11.3 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.24.2 (Dependency)
- electron 44.3.0 (OptionalDependency)
- react \>=18.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- react-dom \>=18.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** local-operator-ui
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.31.17
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-29T06:24:38.053Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-08T07:59:22.192Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T03:20:52.077Z
- **Known versions:** 112
- **Latest version:** 0.32.12
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** User interface for AI agent assistants that run Python code safely on your device through an intuitive chat interface. Supports local and cloud LLM models with built-in security features.
- **Author:** Radient Inc.
- **Maintainers:** damianvtran
- **Keywords:** local-operator, radient, agent, ai, python, tool use, ui, electron, react
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.13.1
- **Artifact files:** 173
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 22,470,460 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/local-operator-ui/v/0.31.17>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator-ui>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator-ui#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/damianvtran/local-operator-ui/issues>)