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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pantheon-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pantheon-cli/v/0.2.96.md"
package: "pantheon-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "pantheon-cli@0.2.96 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.2.96"
---

# pantheon-cli@0.2.96 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:** 0.2.96
- **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.

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-01T19:37:35.266Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-01T19:38:45.837Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5766 ms
- **AI review time:** 64294 ms
- **Total time:** 70571 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:** An explicit Pantheon connect command modifies AI-agent MCP and skill configuration, allowing a later MCP session to read local agent transcripts for handoff. No install-time trigger was found.

- **Trigger:** The user runs pantheon connect or configures the Pantheon MCP server.

- **Impact:** Conversation content and tool outputs from supported local agent sessions can be sent to the configured Pantheon vault when the handoff capability is used.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/pantheon.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-01T19:38:45.837Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** AI-agent configuration injection and local transcript collection

- **Rationale:** This is a real, user-invoked agent-control and transcript-handling capability rather than an install-time malware chain. The package has no lifecycle hook and no verified remote payload execution, so blocking publication is not justified.

- **Files touched:** ~/.cursor/mcp.json, ~/.claude.json, ~/.codex/config.toml, ~/.codex/sessions, ~/.agents/skills/pantheon, ~/.codex/skills/pantheon

- **Network endpoints:** www.pantheonvault.space

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The explicit connect flow installs MCP entries and agent assets into several AI-client configuration locations., The installed MCP server can scan and parse local Codex session rollout files, then select a transcript for handoff., Connecting pairs with the Pantheon service and sends a pairing code, hostname, and any previously stored machine credentials.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook., No remote-code execution was found; the reported dynamic Function use is bundled AJV validation code., Child-process use is limited to Git commands with fixed executable names and argument arrays.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pantheon-cli@0.2.96.

- Review the evidence and your use of pantheon-cli@0.2.96 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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/pantheon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pantheon-cli@0.2.96/dist/pantheon.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39849: } from "node:fs";
L39850: import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L39851: import { homedir as homedir2 } from "node:os";
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** dist/pantheon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pantheon-cli@0.2.96/dist/pantheon.mjs>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2953: sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L2954: const makeValidate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode);
L2955: const validate = makeValidate(this, this.scope.get());
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. Critical: Remote Asset Decode Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/pantheon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pantheon-cli@0.2.96/dist/pantheon.mjs>)

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1237: // validation function arguments
L1238: data: new codegen_1.Name("data"),
L1239: // data passed to validation function
...
L2264: id = normalizeId(id);
L2265: return resolver.resolve(baseId, id);
L2266: }
...
L3127: for (i2 = 0; i2 < input.length; i2++) {
L3128: code = input[i2].charCodeAt(0);
L3129: if (code === 48) {
...
L9033: * @type {-2|-1|0|1}
L9034: * @private
L9035: */
```

### 9. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/pantheon.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pantheon-cli@0.2.96/dist/pantheon.mjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/pantheon.mjs
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. 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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** pantheon-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.96
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-01T15:12:00.585Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T23:28:37.918Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T16:37:26.915Z
- **Known versions:** 43
- **Latest version:** 0.2.130
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Carry agent conscience between AI coding agents. Hand off a conversation in one agent, resume it in another.
- **Maintainers:** aframson
- **Keywords:** mcp, ai, agent, handoff, cursor, claude, codex
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 2
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,860,010 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pantheon-cli/v/0.2.96>)