---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.237"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.237.md"
package: "osborn"
report_status: "published"
title: "osborn@0.9.237 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.9.237"
---

# osborn@0.9.237 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:** 0.9.237
- **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 published package is a user-started voice coding agent with no npm install lifecycle and no self-install chain. Local Claude path usage, including the commented skill reader, is package-aligned and does not show a concrete exfiltration or hijack path.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-27T15:42:56.345Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-27T15:45:04.777Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 709 ms
- **AI review time:** 127214 ms
- **Total time:** 128432 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 import-time attack was identified. Local Claude directory reads and the Fly workspace symlink run only after the user starts a CLI.

- **Trigger:** User invocation of the osborn or osborn-recall binaries.

- **Impact:** No unconsented credential theft, remote payload execution, or agent control-surface mutation was established from the inspected entrypoints.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-27T15:45:04.777Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The running agent reads the local Claude session, skill, and credential files, and on Fly may link an existing /workspace/.claude directory into the home directory.

- **Rationale:** The published package is a user-started voice coding agent with no npm install lifecycle and no self-install chain. Local Claude path usage, including the commented skill reader, is package-aligned and does not show a concrete exfiltration or hijack path.

### 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 has no preinstall, install, or postinstall script. Scripts are dev, start, build, and prepublishOnly, and the bins osborn and osborn-recall run only when the user launches them., Claude home paths are used after the agent starts to read local credentials, skills, projects, and session files. The flagged skill loader in dist/claude-llm.js is a commented-out dead function and is not wired into execution., bin/recall.js creates a home .claude symlink only when the user runs the CLI and /workspace/.claude already exists and the home path is not /workspace.

- **Evidence against:** Dependencies do not include a runtime self-dependency on osborn, and no install-time network, eval, or foreign agent-config writer was found., The OpenRouter fallback assigns the caller OPENROUTER\_API\_KEY to Anthropic env vars aimed at openrouter.ai only when Claude and Anthropic credentials are absent.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to osborn@0.9.237.

- Review the evidence and your use of osborn@0.9.237 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@0.9.237/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@0.9.237/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@0.9.237/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
L2564: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2565: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2566: let out = '';
...
L2573: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2574: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2575: env: { ...process.env },
L2576: 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@0.9.237/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import 'dotenv/config';
L3: // Then hydrate volume-persisted user secrets into process.env, BEFORE any
L4: // module that reads its keys at load time (recall-client's RECALL_REGION const,
...
L16: setMaxListeners(50);
L17: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L18: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L20: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L21: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L22: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L24: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L25: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L26: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.m
```

### 11. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.237/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2564: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2565: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2566: let out = '';
L2567: p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { out += d.toString(); });
L2568: p.on('close', () => res(out.trim()));
...
L2573: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2574: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2575: env: { ...process.env },
...
L2577: });
L2578: install.stdout?.on('data', (d) => process.stdout.write(d));
L2579: 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@0.9.237/dist/index.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import 'dotenv/config';
L3: // Then hydrate volume-persisted user secrets into process.env, BEFORE any
L4: // module that reads its keys at load time (recall-client's RECALL_REGION const,
...
L16: setMaxListeners(50);
L17: import { createServer, request as httpRequest } from 'http';
L18: import { existsSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, cpSync, rmSync, statSync, utimesSync, createWriteStream } from 'node:fs';
...
L20: import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
L21: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L22: import { randomUUID, randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
...
L24: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
L25: // 0.9.71: createRequire for resolving package.json versions inside ESM
L26: const __sdkVersionRequire = createRequire(import.m
```

### 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@0.9.237/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@0.9.237/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/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/osborn@0.9.237/dist/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 = osborn@0.9.236
matchedIdentity = npm:b3Nib3Ju:0.9.236
similarity = 0.972
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:** 27
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 27

### 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)
- 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:** 0.9.237
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-27T15:41:11.103Z
- **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:** 100
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,261,223 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.237>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn/issues>)
