---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.14.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.14.0.md"
package: "memgineering"
report_status: "published"
title: "memgineering@0.14.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.14.0"
---

# memgineering@0.14.0 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:** 0.14.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. A global install prints a directive intended to cause an AI agent to run setup. Setup can install persistent guidance and command hooks into detected AI-agent configurations.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-29T09:45:13.840Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-29T09:46:32.523Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2471 ms
- **AI review time:** 75709 ms
- **Total time:** 78683 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global install prints a directive intended to cause an AI agent to run setup. Setup can install persistent guidance and command hooks into detected AI-agent configurations.

- **Trigger:** A global npm install followed by an agent following the postinstall instruction and running setup.

- **Impact:** The package can cause persistent changes to several external AI-agent control surfaces and invoke its guard command during later sessions.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-29T09:46:32.523Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Lifecycle-driven agent persuasion followed by agent configuration and hook installation.

- **Rationale:** The package contains deliberate lifecycle output aimed at persuading an AI agent to configure external agent tools, with default persistent hooks. It does not directly mutate those tools during postinstall or show credential theft, so the source supports a warning rather than a block.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.claude/skills/, ~/.codex/AGENTS.md, ~/.codex/hooks.json, ~/.codex/skills/, ~/.memgineering/credentials.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.memgineering.com, https://registry.npmjs.org/memgineering/latest, https://memgineering.com/version-policy.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The global postinstall message directly instructs an AI agent to continue setup in the same turn., The prompted setup writes guidance and hooks into other AI tools' home directories., Agent-mode setup selects every detected tool and enables hooks by default.

- **Evidence against:** Postinstall only prints when npm reports a global install and does not itself write agent configuration., The message tells the agent to ask two user questions before running setup., Network requests use the configured memory service and authenticated API calls; no secret harvesting or unrelated exfiltration was found.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.14.0/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@0.14.0/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@0.14.0/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@0.14.0/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 as mkdir2, readFile as readFile2, unlink, writeFile as writeFile2 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile2(credentialsPath(), JSON.stringify(credentials, null, 2) + "\n", {
import { mkdir as mkdir3, readFile as readFile3, unlink as unlink2, writeFile as writeFile3 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile3(pendingLoginPath(), JSON.stringify(pending, null, 2) + "\n", {
const base = args.baseUrl ?? apiUrl();
...args.token ? { authorization: `Bearer ${args.token}` } : {}
async function claimPendingLogin(baseUrl = apiUrl()) {
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.14.0/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@0.14.0/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@0.14.0/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@0.13.1
matchedIdentity = npm:bWVtZ2luZWVyaW5n:0.13.1
similarity = 0.750
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:** 0.14.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-29T04:59:20.395Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-09T01:56:46.236Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T21:56:53.712Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 0.18.3
- **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:** 1,084,339 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.14.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering>)
- [Homepage](<https://memgineering.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering/issues>)