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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.247"
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package: "osborn"
report_status: "published"
title: "osborn@0.9.247 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.9.247"
---

# osborn@0.9.247 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.9.247
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected source establishes persistent global agent configuration changes through CLI use, which warrants a behavior-specific warning under the supplied policy. It does not establish malicious installation behavior or credential theft.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-30T12:22:23.261Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-30T12:24:27.706Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 761 ms
- **AI review time:** 123173 ms
- **Total time:** 124445 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:** CLI startup persistently changes global Claude settings. A frontend command can also install global skill instructions; these capabilities warrant a warning, but no confirmed malicious attack was established.

- **Trigger:** Launching osborn; sending a skill\_add command through the frontend.

- **Impact:** Changes affect Claude sessions beyond Osborn, extending retention and making added instructions available globally.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/cli.js, dist/index.js, dist/claude-llm.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-30T12:24:27.706Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Module initialization rewrites Claude settings, and the skill handler saves supplied content under the user's global Claude skills directory.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source establishes persistent global agent configuration changes through CLI use, which warrants a behavior-specific warning under the supplied policy. It does not establish malicious installation behavior or credential theft.

- **Files touched:** settings.json, SKILL.md

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** package.json has no npm installation lifecycle hooks., bin/cli.js launches dist/index.js, which imports dist/claude-llm.js., Importing dist/claude-llm.js changes global Claude settings without a separate consent check., The settings changes increase the compaction window and retain sessions for 3650 days., A frontend skill\_add command writes supplied instructions into global Claude skills.

- **Evidence against:** The behavior activates through the CLI rather than npm installation., Skill names are sanitized, and the skill write requires a specific frontend command., Inspected authentication fallback uses an OpenRouter key for OpenRouter rather than forwarding existing Claude credentials.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to osborn@0.9.247.

- Review the evidence and your use of osborn@0.9.247 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@0.9.247/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@0.9.247/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@0.9.247/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
L2575: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2576: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2577: let out = '';
...
L2584: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2585: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2586: env: { ...process.env },
L2587: 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@0.9.247/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@0.9.247/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2575: const which = await new Promise((res) => {
L2576: const p = spawn('which', ['code-server']);
L2577: let out = '';
L2578: p.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { out += d.toString(); });
L2579: p.on('close', () => res(out.trim()));
...
L2584: await new Promise((res, rej) => {
L2585: const install = spawn('sh', ['-c', 'curl -fsSL https://code-server.dev/install.sh | sh'], {
L2586: env: { ...process.env },
...
L2588: });
L2589: install.stdout?.on('data', (d) => process.stdout.write(d));
L2590: 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@0.9.247/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@0.9.247/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@0.9.247/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
```

## 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:** 0.9.247
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T11:56:43.343Z
- **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:** 2,282,530 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/osborn/v/0.9.247>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Erriccc/osborn/issues>)
