---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.6.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.6.0.md"
package: "memgineering"
report_status: "published"
title: "memgineering@0.6.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.6.0"
---

# memgineering@0.6.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.6.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-15T16:45:33.157Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-15T16:47:05.496Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1789 ms
- **AI review time:** 90048 ms
- **Total time:** 92339 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** The install hook itself only emits agent-directed setup instructions. If that separate setup command is run, it installs guidance and event hooks into detected global AI-agent configurations.

- **Trigger:** Global npm install followed by an agent running \`memgineering setup\`.

- **Impact:** Can alter persistent Claude/Codex/Grok/Gemini agent guidance and invoke memgineering on agent events.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-15T16:47:05.496Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Agent-directed lifecycle output followed by global AI-agent config and hook installation.

- **Rationale:** No concrete credential theft, remote payload execution, or install-time agent-file mutation was found. The lifecycle-to-agent instruction and persistent cross-agent hook capability warrant a warning.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/index.js, ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md, ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.codex/AGENTS.md, ~/.codex/hooks.json, ~/.grok/rules/memgineering.md, ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** postinstall addresses an agent and tells it to continue setup., Noninteractive setup defaults to all detected tools and hooks on., Setup writes guidance, skills, and command hooks into global AI-agent directories., Hooks run memgineering commands on Claude/Codex agent events.

- **Evidence against:** postinstall only prints instructions; it does not run setup or modify agent files., Setup is a separately invoked CLI command with a dry-run option., Hosted token use is tied to the configured memgineering API and explicit login flow., No source evidence of environment harvesting or unrelated credential exfiltration.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.6.0/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@0.6.0/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@0.6.0/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: }
...
L105: function isInteractive() {
L106: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L107: }
L108: function printHuman(text) {
L109: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L110: }
...
L121: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L122: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L123: if (code === 27) {
```

### 9. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.6.0/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:
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 mkdir7, readFile as readFile12, unlink, writeFile as writeFile6 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile6(credentialsPath(), JSON.stringify(credentials, null, 2) + "\n", {
import { mkdir as mkdir8, readFile as readFile13, unlink as unlink2, writeFile as writeFile7 } from "fs/promises";
await writeFile7(pendingLoginPath(), JSON.str
```

### 10. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.6.0/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: }
...
L105: function isInteractive() {
L106: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L107: }
L108: function printHuman(text) {
L109: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L110: }
...
L121: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L122: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L123: if (code === 27) {
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/memgineering@0.6.0/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: }
...
L105: function isInteractive() {
L106: return Boolean(process.stdout.isTTY) && !jsonMode;
L107: }
L108: function printHuman(text) {
L109: if (!jsonMode) process.stdout.write(text + "\n");
L110: }
...
L121: for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
L122: const code = input.charCodeAt(i);
L123: if (code === 27) {
```

### 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@0.6.0/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@0.2.1
matchedIdentity = npm:bWVtZ2luZWVyaW5n:0.2.1
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:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 12
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### 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)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** memgineering
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-15T16:23:10.513Z
- **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:** 736,343 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/memgineering/v/0.6.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering>)
- [Homepage](<https://memgineering.com/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/memgineering/memgineering/issues>)
