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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.218"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.218.md"
package: "osborn"
report_status: "published"
title: "osborn@0.9.218 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.9.218"
---

# osborn@0.9.218 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 18 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:** 0.9.218
- **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.

The package is a voice coding assistant whose Claude paths stay on the local machine and whose entrypoints run only when the user launches a bin. The scanner hit in claude-llm.js is commented-out skill-loading code, and there is no npm install hook or hidden export of credentials to an unrelated host.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-26T06:01:43.915Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-26T06:04:11.876Z
- **Download time:** 502 ms
- **Static scan time:** 842 ms
- **AI review time:** 146616 ms
- **Total time:** 147961 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 install-time or hidden attack surface was identified. Claude directory access is local session, skill, and credential handling for the voice coding assistant, and it runs only after the user starts a bin.

- **Trigger:** The user runs the osborn or osborn-recall command.

- **Impact:** No unconsented install mutation, credential theft, or remote payload execution was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-26T06:04:11.876Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The process reads local Claude session files and skills and talks to the configured voice and model services for the product.

- **Rationale:** The package is a voice coding assistant whose Claude paths stay on the local machine and whose entrypoints run only when the user launches a bin. The scanner hit in claude-llm.js is commented-out skill-loading code, and there is no npm install hook or hidden export of credentials to an unrelated host.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 86.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json publishes only the user-run bins osborn and osborn-recall and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook., The flagged Claude paths are local skill, credential, project, and session lookups for this voice coding assistant, and the claude-llm hit is a commented-out skill reader that is not executed., bin/recall.js creates a ~/.claude symlink only when the user runs osborn-recall and /workspace/.claude already exists., dist/session-access.js only computes local Claude session artifact paths and does not send them.

- **Evidence against:** Importing the Claude LLM module merges autoCompactWindow and cleanupPeriodDays into ~/.claude/settings.json so the assistant can use a large context window.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to osborn@0.9.218.

- Review the evidence and your use of osborn@0.9.218 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/recall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/bin/recall.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: 
L6: import { spawn } from 'child_process'
L7: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/jsonl-search.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/jsonl-search.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L34: // @vscode/ripgrep bundles the rg binary — this is our own dependency
L35: const { rgPath } = require('@vscode/ripgrep');
L36: if (rgPath && existsSync(rgPath))
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. Critical: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/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
L2453: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2454: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2455: let out = '';
...
L2462: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2463: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2464: env: { ...process.env },
L2465: stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
```

### 10. Critical: Credential Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/index.js>)

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12: setMaxListeners(50);
L13: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L14: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L16: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L17: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L18: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L20: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L21: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L22: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.meta.url);
...
L24: import { PassThrough } from 'node:stream';
L25: import { createGunzip } from 'node:zlib';
L26: // Resolve __dirname for this ESM module so we can find sibling files (e.g.
```

### 11. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2453: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2454: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2455: let out = '';
L2456: p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { out += d.toString(); });
L2457: p.on('close', () => res(out.trim()));
...
L2462: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2463: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2464: env: { ...process.env },
...
L2466: });
L2467: install.stdout?.on('data', (d) => process.stdout.write(d));
L2468: install.stderr?.on('data', (d) => process.stderr.write(d));
```

### 12. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/index.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L12: setMaxListeners(50);
L13: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L14: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L16: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L17: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L18: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L20: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L21: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L22: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.meta.url);
...
L24: import { PassThrough } from 'node:stream';
L25: import { createGunzip } from 'node:zlib';
L26: // Resolve __dirname for this ESM module so we can find sibling files (e.g.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** deploy.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/deploy.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = deploy.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 2309
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. 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.

### 17. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/session-access.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/session-access.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 = 1
```

### 18. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/claude-llm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.218/dist/claude-llm.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 = osborn@0.9.217
matchedIdentity = npm:b3Nib3Ju:0.9.217
similarity = 0.970
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 28
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 28

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk ^0.3.281 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.128.0 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-deepgram 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-fishaudio 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-livekit 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-openai 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-rime 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-silero 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/agents-plugin-soniox 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @livekit/rtc-node 0.13.35 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @smithery/api ^0.48.0 (Dependency)
- @types/diff ^8.0.0 (Dependency)
- @vscode/ripgrep ^1.17.1 (Dependency)
- @xenova/transformers ^2.17.2 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^13.0.3 (Dependency)
- diff ^8.0.4 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.0 (Dependency)
- http-proxy ^1.18.1 (Dependency)
- livekit-server-sdk ^2.15.0 (Dependency)
- minisearch ^7.2.0 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- sqlite-vec ^0.1.9 (Dependency)
- tsx ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.3.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** osborn
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.9.218
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-26T06:00:29.106Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T17:37:21.330Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T22:54:24.518Z
- **Known versions:** 87
- **Latest version:** 0.9.267
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Voice AI coding assistant - local agent that connects to Osborn frontend
- **Author:** Osborn Ojure
- **Maintainers:** erriccc
- **Keywords:** voice, ai, coding, assistant, claude, livekit
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 92
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,215,830 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.218>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn/issues>)
