---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.56"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.56.md"
package: "mano-coding"
report_status: "published"
title: "mano-coding@0.1.56 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.1.56"
---

# mano-coding@0.1.56 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 0.1.56
- **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.

The package presents a CLI and toolchain, has no install lifecycle hooks, and its NPM credential resolution restricts credentials to requests for the matching host. The scanner’s execution and network indicators fit the CLI’s functionality; the flagged unrelated hostnames appear in comments.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-31T11:38:33.767Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-31T11:39:05.487Z
- **Download time:** 1819 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3788 ms
- **AI review time:** 26112 ms
- **Total time:** 31720 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 was identified in the inspected package source.

- **Trigger:** The CLI runs when invoked; the package declares no install lifecycle hooks.

- **Impact:** No malicious or suspicious impact was established from the inspected flows.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-31T11:39:05.487Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The flagged environment, network, and process capabilities appear in CLI/toolchain behavior; NPM authorization is matched to the request host.

- **Rationale:** The package presents a CLI and toolchain, has no install lifecycle hooks, and its NPM credential resolution restricts credentials to requests for the matching host. The scanner’s execution and network indicators fit the CLI’s functionality; the flagged unrelated hostnames appear in comments.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest describes mano-coding as a CLI and toolchain and points to its CLI entry point., There are no preinstall, install, or postinstall hooks; the listed scripts are build, test, lint, and release tasks., NPM auth values are selected only when the configured credential host matches the request host., The bundled CLI invokes its command runner with process.argv, so network and command actions are driven by CLI commands.

- **Evidence against:** The bundle includes filesystem, network, and process-spawning capabilities, which are expected for a coding CLI and toolchain., The scanner’s foreign-host credential matches are not evidence of credential exfiltration: the NPM auth logic checks host alignment, and the cited unrelated hostnames occur in source comments.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to mano-coding@0.1.56.

- Review the evidence and your use of mano-coding@0.1.56 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@0.1.56/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 path3 = __require("node:path");
```

### 3. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.56/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. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.56/dist/bin.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L14130: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L14131: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L14132: 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@0.1.56/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@0.1.56/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
L71552: init_self_upgrade_pipeline();
L71553: DEFAULT_NPM_REGISTRY2 = "https://registry.npmjs.org";
L71554: }
...
L71557: // packages/cli/src/commands/auto-update.ts
L71558: import { spawn as spawn6 } from "node:child_process";
L71559: import { homedir as homedir8 } from "node:os";
...
L71561: async function scheduleAutoUpdateWorker(argv, currentVersion, options) {
L71562: const disabled = argv.includes("--offline") || Boolean(process.env["AICODING_NO_UPDATE_CHECK"]) || Boolean(process.env["CI"]) || argv[2] === "self-upgrade" || argv[2] === "_self-up...
L71563: if (disabled) return;
```

### 10. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.56/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 path3 = __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. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 14. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/bin.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mano-coding@0.1.56/dist/bin.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 = mano-coding@0.1.47
matchedIdentity = npm:bWFuby1jb2Rpbmc:0.1.47
similarity = 0.500
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** mano-coding
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.56
- **Version published:** 2026-10-20T03:20:54.712Z
- **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:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,111,792 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mano-coding/v/0.1.56>)
