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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/orquesta-agent/v/0.2.224"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/orquesta-agent/v/0.2.224.md"
package: "orquesta-agent"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "orquesta-agent@0.2.224 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.224"
---

# orquesta-agent@0.2.224 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 20 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.224
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 20 finding(s) at 86.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-13T17:17:38.839Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-13T17:17:39.398Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 303 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 559 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/preinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/preinstall.js
```

### 3. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 4. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 6. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/ui/onboarding.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/dist/ui/onboarding.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: // Either way it runs exactly once, guarded by a marker file.
L11: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
L12: import * as fs from 'fs';
```

### 7. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

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

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: const nodeBin = process.execPath.slice(0, process.execPath.lastIndexOf('/'));
L16: const home = process.env.HOME || '/root';
L17: const extraPaths = [
...
L34: import { createSocketIOConnection, createExecutionChannel, setupSocketIOListeners, } from './socketio-transport.js';
L35: import { execSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
L36: import { execute, evaluate, cancel, cancelAll, hasRunningProcesses, checkClaudeAuth, configureAuth, gitClone, gitPull, setPermissionMode, setSandboxConfig, setSandboxAccess, setAge...
...
L41: import { runFirstRunOnboarding } from './ui/onboarding.js';
L42: // Read version — try package.json first, fall back to env (for binary builds)
L43: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L44: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L45: let VERSION
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 13. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/dist/index.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution with blocking evidence.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L670: freshCredentials['ORQUESTA_TOKEN'] = token;
L671: freshCredentials['ORQUESTA_API_URL'] = process.env.ORQUESTA_API_URL || 'https://getorquesta.com';
L672: {
...
L684: try {
L685: execSync(`git checkout ${subCfg.branch} 2>/dev/null || git checkout -b ${subCfg.branch}`, { cwd: execDir, stdio: 'pipe' });
L686: logger.info(`[sub-agent:${subCfg.name}] Checked out branch: ${subCfg.branch}`);
```

### 14. High: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/dist/index.js>)

Source combines credential-like environment material and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L15: const nodeBin = process.execPath.slice(0, process.execPath.lastIndexOf('/'));
L16: const home = process.env.HOME || '/root';
L17: const extraPaths = [
...
L34: import { createSocketIOConnection, createExecutionChannel, setupSocketIOListeners, } from './socketio-transport.js';
L35: import { execSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
L36: import { execute, evaluate, cancel, cancelAll, hasRunningProcesses, checkClaudeAuth, configureAuth, gitClone, gitPull, setPermissionMode, setSandboxConfig, setSandboxAccess, setAge...
...
L41: import { runFirstRunOnboarding } from './ui/onboarding.js';
L42: // Read version — try package.json first, fall back to env (for binary builds)
L43: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L44: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L45: let VERSION
```

### 15. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/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: const nodeBin = process.execPath.slice(0, process.execPath.lastIndexOf('/'));
L16: const home = process.env.HOME || '/root';
L17: const extraPaths = [
...
L34: import { createSocketIOConnection, createExecutionChannel, setupSocketIOListeners, } from './socketio-transport.js';
L35: import { execSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
L36: import { execute, evaluate, cancel, cancelAll, hasRunningProcesses, checkClaudeAuth, configureAuth, gitClone, gitPull, setPermissionMode, setSandboxConfig, setSandboxAccess, setAge...
...
L41: import { runFirstRunOnboarding } from './ui/onboarding.js';
L42: // Read version — try package.json first, fall back to env (for binary builds)
L43: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L44: const
```

### 16. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/dist/index.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L993: try {
L994: const updateCmd = `npm install -g --force orquesta-agent@${version}`;
L995: logger.info(`Trying: ${updateCmd}`);
L996: execSync(updateCmd, { stdio: 'inherit' });
L997: updated = true;
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/generate-manifest.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/orquesta-agent@0.2.224/scripts/generate-manifest.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/generate-manifest.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2081
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 10

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.95.1 (Dependency)
- @homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch ^0.13.1 (Dependency)
- @types/cors ^2.8.19 (Dependency)
- @types/express ^5.0.6 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.3.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.6 (Dependency)
- express ^5.2.1 (Dependency)
- orquesta-cli 0.2.119 (Dependency)
- socket.io-client ^4.8.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** orquesta-agent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.224
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-13T17:16:58.267Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-12T01:49:59.083Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T22:28:51.218Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.2.239
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Local agent for Orquesta - connects your VM to the Orquesta dashboard
- **Author:** Orquesta
- **Maintainers:** opcastil
- **Keywords:** orquesta, agent, claude, ai, automation
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 110
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,196,403 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/orquesta-agent/v/0.2.224>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/orquesta/orquesta-agent>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/orquesta/orquesta-agent#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/orquesta/orquesta-agent/issues>)
