registry / AI-agent capability abuse / orquesta-agent / 0.2.251

orquesta-agent@0.2.251

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

AI Security Review

scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

Explicit init writes first-party Claude Code and Cursor hook commands into the consumer project, which is user-command agent control-surface mutation and warrants a warning. The npm lifecycle scripts only print banners, so this is not an unconsented install-time hijack.

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 runs orquesta-agent init with a token.

Impact

Later Claude Code and Cursor events in that project invoke this package's hook handler and report activity to the configured Orquesta API.

Mechanism

initProject validates the token, then writes merged hook commands into .claude/settings.json and .cursor/hooks.json in the working directory.

AI rationale

Evidence

dist/init.jsdist/index.jspackage.json.claude/settings.json.cursor/hooks.json.orquesta.json

Network endpoints1

getorquesta.com

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 72.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The init subcommand requires a caller-supplied token and then writes Claude Code and Cursor hook entries in the working directory.
Those hooks run this package for prompt submit, tool use, and stop events.
preinstall and postinstall only print a Node version check and a welcome banner.

Evidence against

Hook files are written from the explicit init command, not from package import or the install scripts.
The default API host is the vendor site https://getorquesta.com, and the token is passed in by the caller.
Dashboard credentials are fetched into the local agent for the user's project rather than copied from a local session cookie to an unrelated host.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShellWebSocket

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

Source & flagged code

24 flagged

package.jsonView file

Lines 1-38json

2 "name": "orquesta-agent",

3 "version": "0.2.251",

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 "@nut-tree-fork/nut-js": "4.2.6",

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

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

35 "chalk": "^5.3.0",

36 "commander": "^11.1.0",

37 "cors": "^2.8.6",

38 "express": "^5.2.1",

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@0.2.246 matchedPath = dist/sudosudo.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 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@0.2.246 matchedPath = dist/init.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 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/hook.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

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

dist/hook.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/ui/server.jsView file

•matchType = token_shingles matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.246 matchedPath = dist/ui/server.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 similarity = 1.000 shingleOverlap = 48 summary = source token shingles overlapped 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@0.2.246 matchedPath = dist/browser.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 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

scripts/build-binaries.shView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = orquesta-agent@0.2.246 matchedPath = scripts/build-binaries.sh matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 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@0.2.246 matchedPath = dist/daemon.js matchedIdentity = npm:b3JxdWVzdGEtYWdlbnQ:0.2.246 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

Source & flagged code

24 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

5 Critical16 High8 Medium5 Low

CriticalSame File Env Network Executiondist/index.js

CriticalHardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltrationdist/supabase.js

CriticalDownload Executedist/sudosudo.js

CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/index.js

CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/index.js

HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json

HighChild Processdist/ui/onboarding.js

HighShell

HighCredential Exfiltrationdist/index.js

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

HighTrigger Reachable Credential Exfiltrationdist/index.js

HighTrigger Reachable Persistence

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to orquesta-agent@0.2.251.

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

Review the evidence and your use of orquesta-agent@0.2.251 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: 2026-09-22 20:51:37.478Z (UTC).

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