---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.12.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.12.0.md"
package: "memgineering"
report_status: "published"
title: "memgineering@0.12.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.12.0"
---

# memgineering@0.12.0 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:** 0.12.0
- **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.

Source inspection confirms a global-only postinstall message that steers an agent toward a later setup command, and setup can write persistent agent guidance. Because the inspected code makes configuration changes through the setup path and includes user-choice guidance, this warrants a warning for guarded agent setup capability, not a block for confirmed malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-10T02:15:24.285Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-10T02:16:26.701Z
- **Download time:** 511 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1737 ms
- **AI review time:** 60168 ms
- **Total time:** 62416 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:** The global-install postinstall prints instructions that encourage an AI agent to run setup. Setup can add persistent guidance and skills to selected agent configuration locations.

- **Trigger:** A global package installation prints the instructions; configuration changes require a subsequent setup command.

- **Impact:** An agent may be steered to run setup, which can modify its configuration after the user chooses to proceed. No confirmed credential theft or covert configuration write was identified.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-10T02:16:26.701Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The setup path writes guidance into agent homes and installs skill files. The inspected code indicates user choices for agent setup and asks that automatic updates and hooks be decided with the user.

- **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms a global-only postinstall message that steers an agent toward a later setup command, and setup can write persistent agent guidance. Because the inspected code makes configuration changes through the setup path and includes user-choice guidance, this warrants a warning for guarded agent setup capability, not a block for confirmed malicious behavior.

- **Files touched:** CLAUDE.md

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** A package postinstall runs a script that prints instructions only for global installs; it does not run setup itself., The bundle describes persistent agent guidance in CLAUDE.md and setup can inject guidance into selected agent homes., The setup command exposes an explicit agent mode; source directs asking the user before choosing automatic updates or session hooks.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall output says setup is not complete and asks the agent to ask the user before running it., The reviewed API client sends bearer tokens to the configured service URL; the default is the package’s own API host.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to memgineering@0.12.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of memgineering@0.12.0 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/memgineering@0.12.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 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: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: function brandHome() {
L16: return process.env[BRAND.homeEnvVar] ?? join(homedir(), BRAND.homeDirName);
L17: }
...
L118: function isInteractive() {
L119: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L120: }
L121: function printHuman(text) {
L122: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L123: }
...
L134: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L135: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L136: if (code === 27 && input[i + 1] === "]" || code === 157) {
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/dist/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.js:
* it writes into somebody else's `~/.claude` and `~/.codex`. Conflating them
import { mkdir, readFile, rename, rm, writeFile } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile(tmp, body, { encoding: "utf8", mode: 384 });
import { rename as rename2, rm as rm3, writeFile as writeFile2 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile2(tmp, content, { encoding: "utf8", mode: 384 });
import { mkdir as mkdir3, readFile as readFile5, unlink, writeFile as writeFile3 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile3(credentialsPath(), JSON.stringify(credentials, null, 2) + "\n", {
import { mkdir as mkdir4, readFile as readFile6, unlink as unlink2, writeFile as wri
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/dist/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L15: function brandHome() {
L16: return process.env[BRAND.homeEnvVar] ?? join(homedir(), BRAND.homeDirName);
L17: }
...
L118: function isInteractive() {
L119: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L120: }
L121: function printHuman(text) {
L122: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L123: }
...
L134: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L135: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L136: if (code === 27 && input[i + 1] === "]" || code === 157) {
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/dist/index.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches credential exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable credential exfiltration chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.js
L15: function brandHome() {
L16: return process.env[BRAND.homeEnvVar] ?? join(homedir(), BRAND.homeDirName);
L17: }
...
L118: function isInteractive() {
L119: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L120: }
L121: function printHuman(text) {
L122: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L123: }
...
L134: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L135: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L136: if (code === 27 && input[i + 1] === "]" || code === 157) {
```

### 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. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.12.0/dist/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 = memgineering@0.23.1
matchedIdentity = npm:bWVtZ2luZWVyaW5n:0.23.1
similarity = 0.500
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:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 8

### Published dependency entries
- @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- kleur ^4.1.5 (Dependency)
- prompts ^2.4.2 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.8.4 (Dependency)
- string-width ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** memgineering
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.12.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T07:39:32.143Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T01:56:46.236Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-17T19:40:21.498Z
- **Known versions:** 35
- **Latest version:** 0.27.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** One memory for the AI you connect. Recall, remember, and revise a brain your agents share — stored in your own folder.
- **Maintainers:** rayul
- **Keywords:** ai, memory, agent, memory-engineering, claude-code, codex, second-brain
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 15
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,055,041 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.12.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering>)
- [Homepage](<https://memgineering.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering/issues>)
