---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/negotium/v/0.18.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/negotium/v/0.18.0.md"
package: "negotium"
report_status: "published"
title: "negotium@0.18.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.18.0"
---

# negotium@0.18.0 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:** 0.18.0
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Inspected source shows the postinstall downloaders verify pinned release binaries before installation. Vault API keys are passed to the package’s Maestro provider, but the inspected code does not establish an unrestricted credential destination or a concrete attack; the scanner signals alone do not support a warning or block.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T08:52:34.826Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T08:53:31.364Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 18696 ms
- **AI review time:** 37078 ms
- **Total time:** 56538 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 identified in the inspected source. The postinstall hook installs checksum-verified, version-pinned project binaries under the package’s state directory.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall triggers the two installer scripts.

- **Impact:** No confirmed compromise or unauthorized configuration change was established. Provider API keys are passed to the Maestro provider, with no unrestricted recipient established by inspected source.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T08:53:31.364Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The scripts select a platform-specific asset from the project’s GitHub release, verify its SHA-256 digest, then install it in the Negotium state directory.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source shows the postinstall downloaders verify pinned release binaries before installation. Vault API keys are passed to the package’s Maestro provider, but the inspected code does not establish an unrestricted credential destination or a concrete attack; the scanner signals alone do not support a warning or block.

- **Files touched:** install-browser-rs.mjs, install-bash-rs.mjs

- **Network endpoints:** github.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json exposes agent runtime modules; the inspected target locations mostly contain path handling and rollout-file operations, not foreign agent configuration changes., The postinstall scripts download version-pinned binaries from the project’s GitHub releases and verify their SHA-256 before installation under the Negotium state directory., The inspected API-key override code reads DeepSeek, Moonshot, and GLM keys from the user vault and passes them to the Maestro provider; no unrestricted recipient or actual network send was established in inspected source.

- **Evidence against:** The package has a postinstall hook that runs two binary installer scripts., Vault API keys are forwarded to the Maestro provider, but inspected source does not establish an unrestricted or unrelated destination.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to negotium@0.18.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of negotium@0.18.0 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/negotium@0.18.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install-browser-rs.mjs && node install-bash-rs.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node install-browser-rs.mjs && node install-bash-rs.mjs
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/hosted-agent.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/dist/hosted-agent.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L212: var TSX_BIN = resolveDependencyBin("tsx");
L213: var TSX_LOADER_PATH = createRequire(import.meta.url).resolve("tsx");
L214: var TSX_LOADER = process.platform === "win32" ? pathToFileURL(TSX_LOADER_PATH).href : TSX_LOADER_PATH;
```

### 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. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp-factories.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/dist/mcp-factories.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/mcp-factories.js:
writeFileSync
writeFileSync(secretFile, `${envValue}
writeFileSync(secretFile, `${secret}
return process.env.NEGOTIUM_CODEX_AUTH_FILE || join(process.env.CODEX_HOME || join(homedir(), ".codex"), "auth.json");
writeFileSync as writeFileSync3
writeFileSync3(fd, payload);
import { existsSync as existsSync5, readFileSync as readFileSync5, writeFileSync as writeFileSync4 } from "fs";
const projectsDir = join3(homedir2(), ".claude", "projects", encodeClaudeCwd(opts.cwd));
```

### 9. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/runtime/scripts/faster-whisper-wrapper.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/dist/runtime/scripts/faster-whisper-wrapper.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = dist/runtime/scripts/faster-whisper-wrapper.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2704
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. 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.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/query-runtime.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/dist/query-runtime.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
```

### 14. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/browser-runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/negotium@0.18.0/dist/browser-runtime.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 = negotium@0.16.1
matchedIdentity = npm:bmVnb3RpdW0:0.16.1
similarity = 0.842
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
- **Dependencies:** 12
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 12

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk ^0.3.261 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.124.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- @openai/codex-sdk ^0.153.4 (Dependency)
- diff ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- maestro-agent-sdk 0.5.1 (Dependency)
- node-telegram-bot-api ^1.1.2 (Dependency)
- orchgraph 0.2.4 (Dependency)
- pino ^10.3.1 (Dependency)
- pino-pretty ^13.1.3 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.23.13 (Dependency)
- zod 4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** negotium
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.18.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T15:24:21.467Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-17T13:42:28.294Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T02:16:39.682Z
- **Known versions:** 93
- **Latest version:** 0.22.7
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Install the Negotium multi-agent runtime and CLI with one package
- **Maintainers:** maestrojeong
- **Runtime engines:** bun: \>=1.2.15
- **Artifact files:** 520
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,697,590 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/negotium/v/0.18.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/maestrojeong/negotium>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/maestrojeong/negotium#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/maestrojeong/negotium/issues>)
