---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/oh-my-codex/v/0.21.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/oh-my-codex/v/0.21.6.md"
package: "oh-my-codex"
report_status: "published"
title: "oh-my-codex@0.21.6 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.21.6"
---

# oh-my-codex@0.21.6 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:** 0.21.6
- **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.

The package has a real agent configuration capability through explicit setup, which warrants a warning under the review policy. The inspected postinstall behavior does not establish an unconsented agent-control mutation or another concrete attack.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-11T15:03:26.497Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-11T15:04:18.197Z
- **Download time:** 2021 ms
- **Static scan time:** 11002 ms
- **AI review time:** 38675 ms
- **Total time:** 51700 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 explicit setup command can write package-managed agent instructions into project or user configuration. No confirmed attack was identified; the inspected install hook does not invoke setup.

- **Trigger:** A user runs the package setup command.

- **Impact:** The generated instructions can affect later AI-agent behavior in that scope.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/cli/setup.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-11T15:04:18.197Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Setup merges generated agent instructions into an AGENTS.md file for the selected scope.

- **Rationale:** The package has a real agent configuration capability through explicit setup, which warrants a warning under the review policy. The inspected postinstall behavior does not establish an unconsented agent-control mutation or another concrete attack.

- **Files touched:** dist/cli/setup.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The package defines a postinstall hook that imports its postinstall module., The postinstall handler returns without action for local installs; global installs hydrate a native runtime and update an install stamp., Setup is a callable CLI operation that writes managed agent instructions into project or user configuration., Setup is invoked through the CLI setup flow, so the agent configuration changes are user-command initiated.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected postinstall path does not invoke setup or mutate agent configuration., The setup operation includes scope and merge options and writes managed content through its setup flow.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to oh-my-codex@0.21.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of oh-my-codex@0.21.6 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/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "const fs=require('fs');const p='./dist/scripts/postinstall.js';if(fs.existsSync(p))import(p).then(m=>m.main?.()).catch(e=>console.warn('[omx] Postinstall skipped after a n...
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node -e "const fs=require('fs');const p='./dist/scripts/postinstall.js';if(fs.existsSync(p))import(p).then(m=>m.main?.()).catch(e=>console.warn('[omx] Postinstall skipped after a n...
```

### 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/autoresearch/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/autoresearch/runtime.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from 'child_process';
L2: import { existsSync } from 'fs';
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/autoresearch/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/autoresearch/runtime.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L273: encoding: 'utf-8',
L274: shell: true,
L275: maxBuffer: 1024 * 1024,
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/hooks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/cli/hooks.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L40: const moduleUrl = `${pathToFileURL(filePath).href}?t=${Date.now()}`;
L41: const mod = await import(moduleUrl);
L42: if (typeof mod.onHookEvent !== 'function') {
```

### 8. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 9. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/scripts/smoke-packed-install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/scripts/smoke-packed-install.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: import { delimiter, dirname, isAbsolute, join, resolve } from 'node:path';
L5: import { spawn, spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L6: import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
L7: import { TextDecoder } from 'node:util';
L8: import TOML, { parse as parseToml } from '@iarna/toml';
...
L204: }
L205: export function [redacted](testCase, baseEnv = process.env, runtimeBinary) {
L206: const insideTmux = testCase.insideTmux === true;
...
L269: });
L270: const CODEX_APP_SERVER_MAX_STDOUT_FRAME_LENGTH = 1_048_576;
L271: export class CodexExecutableNotFoundError extends Error {
...
L371: function resolvePinnedCodexExecutable(cwd, env, seam = {}) {
```

### 11. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/cli/setup.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
me(receiptpath), { recursive: true });
        await writefile(receiptpath, `${json.stringify(receipt, null, 2)}\n`);
    }
    catch {
                                                                                            
    }
}
async function isomxmanagedinstalledskilldir(skilldir) {
    const skillmdpath = join(skilldir, "skill.md");
    if (!existssync(skillmdpath))
        return false;
    try {
        const metadata = parseskillfrontmatter(await readfile(skillmdpath, "utf-8"), skillmdpath);
        return metadata.description.startswith(installed_skill_badge_prefix);
    }
    catch {
        return false;
    }
}
function [redacted](content, filepath = "skill.md"
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/mcp/code-intel-server.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/mcp/code-intel-server.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L556: try {
L557: const { stdout } = await exec('npx', ['tsc', '--version'], { timeout: 10000 });
L558: checks['typescript'] = { available: true, version: stdout.trim() };
...
L561: process.stderr.write(`[code-intel-server] operation failed: ${err}\n`);
L562: checks['typescript'] = { available: false, note: 'Install: npm i -D typescript' };
L563: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** src/scripts/run-autoresearch-showcase.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/src/scripts/run-autoresearch-showcase.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = src/scripts/run-autoresearch-showcase.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1989
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. 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.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/api.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/cli/api.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 = 10
```

### 19. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/oh-my-codex@0.21.6/dist/cli/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 = oh-my-codex@0.21.5
matchedIdentity = npm:b2gtbXktY29kZXg:0.21.5
similarity = 0.725
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, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.26.0 (Dependency)
- @napi-rs/lzma 1.4.1 (Dependency)
- tar-stream 3.2.0 (Dependency)
- yauzl 3.4.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** oh-my-codex
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.21.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-21T10:19:18.308Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-26T12:22:14.036Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-02T05:49:40.223Z
- **Known versions:** 44
- **Latest version:** 0.21.46
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Multi-agent orchestration layer for OpenAI Codex CLI
- **Author:** Yeachan Heo
- **Maintainers:** bellman\_04
- **Keywords:** codex, openai, cli, agents, orchestration, multi-agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 3669
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 40,300,966 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/oh-my-codex/v/0.21.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex>)
- [Homepage](<https://yeachan-heo.github.io/oh-my-codex>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-codex/issues>)
