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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.37"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.37.md"
package: "mano-coding"
report_status: "published"
title: "mano-coding@0.1.37 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.1.37"
---

# mano-coding@0.1.37 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.1.37
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is an explicitly invoked CLI with no install lifecycle hook. The high-risk evaluation finding comes from bundled AJV validation code, and the remaining command and network features are package-aligned CLI operations.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-05T00:46:38.797Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-05T00:48:22.299Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3666 ms
- **AI review time:** 99329 ms
- **Total time:** 103502 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 malicious attack surface was found. Network, shell, and file-changing operations are user-invoked CLI features.

- **Trigger:** A user runs a Mano Coding CLI command.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unconsented impact.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-05T00:48:22.299Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** No confirmed malicious mechanism.

- **Rationale:** This is an explicitly invoked CLI with no install lifecycle hook. The high-risk evaluation finding comes from bundled AJV validation code, and the remaining command and network features are package-aligned CLI operations.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a command-line executable, so the bundled program runs only when the user invokes it., The reported dynamic evaluation is bundled AJV schema-validator generation code, not code fetched from a remote response.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no preinstall, install, postinstall, or other automatic lifecycle hook., The self-upgrade network and package-manager behavior is registered under an explicit CLI command., No credential collection, secret exfiltration, stealth persistence, or automatic project mutation was confirmed.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to mano-coding@0.1.37.

- Review the evidence and your use of mano-coding@0.1.37 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. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1159: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L1160: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L1161: var path2 = __require("node:path");
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1999: }
L2000: const execArgv = process4.execArgv ?? [];
L2001: if (execArgv.includes("-e") || execArgv.includes("--eval") || execArgv.includes("-p") || execArgv.includes("--print")) {
```

### 4. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14104: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L14105: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L14106: const validate = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/mano-coding.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/bin/mano-coding.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: if (existsSync(fileURLToPath(bundledBin))) {
L7: await import(bundledBin.href);
L8: } else {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L23599: defaultGitExecutor = {
L23600: async exec(args, cwd) {
L23601: const { stdout, stderr: stderr2 } = await execFileAsync("git", args, {
...
L23604: env: {
L23605: ...process.env,
L23606: GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT: "0"
...
L23613: defaultManifestFetcher = {
L23614: async fetch({ url, ref, subdirectory, offline, cacheRoot, packageId }) {
L23615: if (offline) {
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L50: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L51: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L1159: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L1160: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L1161: var path2 = __require("node:path");
...
L1209: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1210: writeOut: (str) => process4.stdout.write(str),
L1211: writeErr: (str) => process4.stderr.write(str),
...
L1248: * @returns {Command[]}
L1249: * @private
L1250: */
```

### 11. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.37/dist/bin.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: * Constructs the CommanderError class
L50: * @param {number} exitCode suggested exit code which could be used with process.exit
L51: * @param {string} code an id string representing the error
...
L1159: var EventEmitter = __require("node:events").EventEmitter;
L1160: var childProcess = __require("node:child_process");
L1161: var path2 = __require("node:path");
...
L1209: this._outputConfiguration = {
L1210: writeOut: (str) => process4.stdout.write(str),
L1211: writeErr: (str) => process4.stderr.write(str),
...
L1248: * @returns {Command[]}
L1249: * @private
L1250: */
```

### 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. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** mano-coding
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.37
- **Version published:** 2026-09-05T00:45:26.788Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-04T00:55:17.793Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T04:29:22.663Z
- **Known versions:** 28
- **Latest version:** 0.1.64
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mano Coding CLI and toolchain
- **Maintainers:** aalizzwell
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 13
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,050,283 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.37>)