registry / AI-agent capability abuse / orquesta-agent / 0.2.240

orquesta-agent@0.2.240

Local agent for Orquesta - connects your VM to the Orquesta dashboard

AI Security Review

scanned 2mo ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The package implements an authenticated remote AI-agent management capability with automatic instruction writes and project artifact uploads. Its lifecycle scripts do not perform the harmful behavior, so the source supports a warning for dangerous capability rather than a malware block.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

The user starts the agent with a valid token or runs its connected daemon.

Impact

A service-side project operator can influence local AI-agent instructions and receive CLAUDE.md plus generated artifacts from the connected working directory.

Mechanism

Remote skill synchronization, AI-agent hook integration, and project artifact upload.

AI rationale

Evidence

dist/index.jsdist/supabase.jsdist/executor.jsdist/daemon.jsdist/init.js.claude/skills/*CLAUDE.md.claude/CLAUDE.md

Network endpoints1

getorquesta.com

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 91.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The connected agent uploads the project CLAUDE.md and then fetches server-provided skills during startup.
Server-provided skill content is written into the project .claude directory and can append or replace CLAUDE.md.
Successful agent runs automatically scan and upload recently created documents and media to the service.
The daemon can force-install newer global releases, including through passwordless sudo.

Evidence against

Install hooks only print status messages and enforce the Node version.
Hook configuration is performed by the explicit init command, not by an install hook.
Network actions require a supplied agent token and use the package service endpoint.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShellWebSocket

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

Source & flagged code

27 flagged

package.jsonView file

Lines 1-38json

2 "name": "orquesta-agent",

3 "version": "0.2.240",

4 "description": "Local agent for Orquesta - connects your VM to the Orquesta dashboard",

5 "type": "module",

6 "main": "dist/index.js",

7 "bin": {

8 "orquesta-agent": "./dist/index.js"

9 },

10 "scripts": {

11 "build": "tsc && cp -r src/ui/public dist/ui/",

12 "build:bundle": "npm run build && npx esbuild dist/index.js --bundle --platform=node --target=node20 --format=esm --outfile=bin/orquesta-agent.mjs --external:@homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch --banner:js=\"import{createRequire}from'module';const require=createRequire(import.meta.url);\" --minify",

13 "build:binary": "npm run build && bash scripts/build-binaries.sh",

14 "dev": "tsc --watch",

15 "start": "node dist/index.js",

16 "prepublishOnly": "npm run build:binary",

17 "preinstall": "node scripts/preinstall.js",

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg · L17

18 "postinstall": "node scripts/postinstall.js"

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg · L18

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg · L18

19 },

20 "keywords": [

21 "orquesta",

22 "agent",

23 "claude",

24 "ai",

25 "automation"

26 ],

27 "author": "Orquesta",

28 "license": "MIT",

29 "dependencies": {

30 "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.95.1",

31 "@homebridge/node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch": "^0.13.1",

32 "@types/cors": "^2.8.19",

33 "@types/express": "^5.0.6",

34 "chalk": "^5.3.0",

35 "commander": "^11.1.0",

36 "cors": "^2.8.6",

37 "express": "^5.2.1",

38 "orquesta-cli": "0.2.130",

dist/ui/onboarding.jsView file

Lines 1-33javascript

1// First-run onboarding: the guided welcome experience that opens on the user's

2// machine the first time the agent connects after install. It explains what the

3// agent is, the execution modes (LLM engine / permissions / sandbox) and the

4// localhost:8080 manager UI — and lets the user apply those settings live.

5//

6// Design: the agent process itself serves the welcome page (embedded UI server)

7// so the "Configure now" step can apply changes to the RUNNING agent with no

8// restart. We open the browser only when a local display is present; on headless

9// servers (VMs, customer boxes over SSH) we just print a prominent URL banner.

dist/index.jsView file

Lines 1-35javascript

1#!/usr/bin/env node

2// Node.js version check — must run before any imports that use fetch/etc.

3const [major] = process.versions.node.split('.').map(Number);

4if (major < 20) {

5 console.error(

dist/supabase.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import * as os from 'os';

2import { execSync } from 'child_process';

3import * as logger from './logger.js';

dist/sudosudo.jsView file

6* path) instead of letting the LLM interpret a privileged setup script. The L7: * installer URL is validated to be https://*.sudosudo.dev. This is how the L8: * Orquesta dashboard "activates" sudosudo on a box that already runs this agent — ... L10: */ L11: import { spawn } from 'child_process'; L12: const MARKER_RE = /<<ORQ_SUDOSUDO_INSTALL>>([\s\S]*?)<<\/ORQ_SUDOSUDO_INSTALL>>/; ... L17: try { L18: const spec = JSON.parse(m[1]); L19: if (typeof spec.install_url !== 'string' || !spec.install_url) ... L41: * Fetch + run the official sudosudo installer, streaming each output line to L42: * `onLine`. Resolves with the exit code. Rejects only if the URL is not a L43: * sudosudo.dev https URL or the process can't be spawned.

Critical

Download Execute

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

dist/sudosudo.jsView on unpkg · L6

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/sudosudo.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/sudosudo.jsView on unpkg

dist/init.jsView file

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. token: options.token, apiurl, }; fs.writefilesync(configpath, json.stringify(config, null, 2) + '\n'); console.log(' created .orquesta.json'); const gitignorepath = path.join(cwd, '.gitignore'); const entry = '.orquesta.json'; if (fs.existssync(gitignorepath)) { const content = fs.readfilesync(gitignorepath, 'utf8'); if (!content.includes(entry)) { fs.appendfilesync(gitignorepath, `\n# orquesta hook config (contains token)\n${entry}\n`); console.log(' added .orquesta.json to .gitignore'); } } else { fs.writefilesync(gitignorepath, `# orquesta hook co

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

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

dist/init.jsView on unpkg

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/init.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/init.jsView on unpkg

scripts/generate-manifest.shView file

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

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

scripts/generate-manifest.shView on unpkg

dist/ui/server.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/ui/server.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/ui/server.jsView on unpkg

dist/browser.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/browser.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/browser.jsView on unpkg

dist/sandbox.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/sandbox.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/sandbox.jsView on unpkg

scripts/build-binaries.shView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = scripts/build-binaries.sh matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

scripts/build-binaries.shView on unpkg

dist/daemon.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/daemon.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/daemon.jsView on unpkg

dist/coordination.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.239 matchedPath = dist/coordination.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.239 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/coordination.jsView on unpkg

dist/executor.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.238 matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.238 similarity = 0.828 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/executor.jsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

27 flagged · loading source

package.jsonView file

•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg

•scripts.preinstall = node scripts/preinstall.js

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg

•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg

dist/ui/onboarding.jsView file

Findings

4 Critical20 High8 Medium5 Low

CriticalHardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltrationdist/supabase.js

CriticalDownload Executedist/sudosudo.js

CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/supabase.js

CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/executor.js

HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json

HighChild Processdist/ui/onboarding.js

HighShell

HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/supabase.js

HighCredential Exfiltrationdist/index.js

HighEntrypoint Foreign Package Code Overwritedist/index.js

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/init.js

High

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to orquesta-agent@0.2.240.

See all versions of orquesta-agent for other recorded verdicts.

Review the evidence and your use of orquesta-agent@0.2.240 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.

Evidence last updated: 2026-08-30 00:49:17.770Z (UTC).

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