---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/local-operator-ui"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/local-operator-ui/v/0.31.23.md"
package: "local-operator-ui"
report_status: "published"
title: "local-operator-ui@0.31.23 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.31.23"
---

# local-operator-ui@0.31.23 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:** 0.31.23
- **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 confirmed attack was identified. Inspected installation, application launch, file suggestions, MCP requests, and scheduling behavior serve the application's functionality.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-30T02:45:29.797Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-30T02:48:19.534Z
- **Download time:** 1020 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7667 ms
- **AI review time:** 161048 ms
- **Total time:** 169737 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 confirmed attack was identified. Inspected installation, application launch, file suggestions, MCP requests, and scheduling behavior serve the application's functionality.

- **Trigger:** Installation initializes Electron; explicit application actions activate runtime features.

- **Impact:** No malicious credential export, foreign agent control mutation, or destructive installation behavior was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-30T02:48:19.534Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The install hook runs the dependency installer and repairs its sandbox helper; runtime requests support the application's backend and user interface.

- **Rationale:** Inspected behavior is consistent with an Electron interface for a local agent backend, including dependency installation and user-directed scheduling. The flagged AGENTS.md reference is file-ranking data, and no concrete malicious chain was found.

- **Files touched:** node\_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **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 install hook invokes bin/postinstall.js, which targets Electron's own sandbox helper., bin/linux-sandbox.js runs Electron's installer and repairs the helper through a checked file descriptor., The CLI launches the packaged Electron entrypoint with user arguments., The flagged renderer location ranks familiar filenames for file suggestions; it does not modify AGENTS.md., The main process routes MCP operations to the application's backend API., Schedule submission follows the user's save or create action and reports failures.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to local-operator-ui@0.31.23.

- Review the evidence and your use of local-operator-ui@0.31.23 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@0.31.23/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@0.31.23/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@0.31.23/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@0.31.23/out/main/index.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3804: },
L3805: // `sh -c <script> <name> <pid>`: the name is $0 and the pid is $1, so the
L3806: // 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@0.31.23/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@0.31.23/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 = in/python3"\n    "/usr/bin/python3"\n    # from environment variable (set by the installer)\n    "${electron_resource_path:-}/python/bin/python3"\n    # development paths\n    "$(dirname "$0")/../../../resources/python/bin/python3"\n    "$(pwd)/resources/python/bin/python3"\n  )\n\n  # ...and then whatever `path` offers, which is the half this probe used to\n  # ignore entirely.\n  #\n  # why it matters, stated as the user story rather than as a rule: python 3.12\n  # on linux usually arrives from a version manager (pyenv, mise, asdf, uv) or a\n  # homebrew/linuxbrew prefix, and every one of those puts its interpreter\n  # somewhere this list does not name while putting it on `path`. the list above\n  # is what the app\'s own ci runner has (ubuntu\'
```

### 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@0.31.23/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");
...
L1034: // The remaining gated legacy writes and reads the renderer still issued as
L1035: // bare same-origin `fetch`. `apiConfig.baseUrl` points AT THE BACKEND, not
L1036: // through the main-process relay, so in managed mode these went out with no
...
L3103: try {
L3104: text = fs.readFileSync(file, "utf8");
L3105: } catch {
```

### 13. Critical: Trojan Source Unicode
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** out/renderer/assets/schedules-page-I-U4fcxy.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.23/out/renderer/assets/schedules-page-I-U4fcxy.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-CpCEfkD6.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/local-operator-ui@0.31.23/out/renderer/assets/index-CpCEfkD6.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = out/renderer/assets/index-CpCEfkD6.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 5925374
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@0.31.23/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@0.31.23/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@0.31.22
matchedIdentity = npm:bG9jYWwtb3BlcmF0b3ItdWk:0.31.22
similarity = 0.933
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:** 0.31.23
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T02:42:34.359Z
- **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:** 22,576,182 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/0.31.23>)
- [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>)