---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/peaks-loop"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/peaks-loop/v/4.0.53.md"
package: "peaks-loop"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "peaks-loop@4.0.53 npm security report"
verdict: "unknown"
version: "4.0.53"
---

# peaks-loop@4.0.53 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 26 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Unknown
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 4.0.53
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis completed at 97.0% confidence. No malicious behavior was detected; 26 low-signal pattern(s) were surfaced and cleared.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Unknown
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-17T08:36:43.439Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-17T08:36:51.130Z
- **Download time:** 1516 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6174 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 7691 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to peaks-loop@4.0.53.

- Review the evidence and your use of peaks-loop@4.0.53 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node ./scripts/install-skills.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/shared/process.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/shared/process.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L2: export async function execCommand(command, args, options) {
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/test-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/test-commands.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L110: * A Windows `.cmd`/`.bat` shim cannot be spawned directly (spawn → EINVAL).
L111: * The obvious fix, `spawn(shim, argv, { shell: true })`, re-splits argv inside
L112: * cmd.exe: a pattern `tests/a b/x.test.ts` arrives as THREE args (measured).
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/governance-classify-contract-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/governance-classify-contract-commands.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L151: try {
L152: const { execFileSync } = require('node:child_process');
L153: stdout = execFileSync('git', ['diff', '--shortstat', 'HEAD'], {
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/code/job-shape-decision.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/services/code/job-shape-decision.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L92: try {
L93: parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
L94: }
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 10. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-skills.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/scripts/install-skills.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { closeSync, constants, existsSync, fchmodSync, fstatSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readFileSync, readlinkSync, realpathSync, readdirSync, renameSync, symlinkSync, un...
L3: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
...
L281: fchmodSync(fd, 0o600);
L282: writeFileSync(fd, content, 'utf8');
L283: const writeFd = fd;
...
L310: fchmodSync(fd, 0o600);
L311: writeFileSync(fd, content, 'utf8');
L312: const writeFd = fd;
...
L358: * cannot import the TS service at runtime. The dispatch:
L359: *   - Look for `.claude`, `.trae`, `.codex`, `.cursor`, `.qoder`,
L360: *     `.tongyi-lingma` in the project root in that insertion order
```

### 11. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/hooks-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/hooks-commands.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
}
    if (dryrun) {
        return { copied: true, source, target };
    }
    mkdirsync(dirname(target), { recursive: true });
    copyfilesync(source, target);
    return { copied: true, source, target };
}
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/hooks-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/hooks-commands.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
function readondiskdenyentries(settings) {
    const permissions = settings.permissions;
    if (!permissions || typeof permissions !== 'object' || array.isarray(permissions))
        return [];
    const deny = permissions.deny;
    if (!array.isarray(deny))
        return [];
    return deny.filter((d) => typeof d === 'string');
}
```

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/playwright-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/playwright-commands.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: * The CLI does NOT bundle `playwright-mcp`; it shells out to
L28: * `npx playwright-mcp@latest` (G22 / NG3). peaks-loop is the lifecycle
L29: * orchestrator, not the install medium.
...
L31: import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
L32: import { spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L33: import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync, unlinkSync } from 'node:fs';
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 17. 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.

### 18. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** bin/peaks.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/bin/peaks.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 = 33
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/cron-scheduler-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/cron-scheduler-commands.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/cron-scheduler-commands.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/dispatch/dispatch-record-writer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/services/dispatch/dispatch-record-writer.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/services/dispatch/dispatch-record-writer.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/web/daemon-supervisor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/services/web/daemon-supervisor.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/services/web/daemon-supervisor.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/best-practice-scan-command.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/best-practice-scan-command.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/best-practice-scan-command.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/lease-metrics-commands.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/cli/commands/lease-metrics-commands.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/cli/commands/lease-metrics-commands.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/scan/orphan-service.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/services/scan/orphan-service.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/services/scan/orphan-service.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/peaks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/bin/peaks.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = bin/peaks.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/services/prd/best-practice-auto-trigger.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/peaks-loop@4.0.53/dist/services/prd/best-practice-auto-trigger.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = peaks-loop@4.0.46
matchedPath = dist/services/prd/best-practice-auto-trigger.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGVha3MtbG9vcA:4.0.46
similarity = 0.792
shingleOverlap = 38
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublish
- **Dependencies:** 13
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 18
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 13

### Published dependency entries
- @alibaba-group/open-code-review ^1.8.9 (Dependency)
- @colbymchenry/codegraph 0.7.10 (Dependency)
- @upstash/context7-mcp ^4.0.2 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.11.1 (Dependency)
- commander ^12.1.0 (Dependency)
- fzf ^0.5.2 (Dependency)
- peaks-loop-internal-runtime 0.0.38 (Dependency)
- peaks-loop-mut 0.1.51 (Dependency)
- peaks-loop-shared 0.0.87 (Dependency)
- peaks-loop-shared-channel 0.0.55 (Dependency)
- picomatch 4.0.4 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** peaks-loop
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.0.53
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-17T08:35:50.664Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T02:20:01.082Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-18T16:10:02.893Z
- **Known versions:** 52
- **Latest version:** 4.0.54
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Loop Engineering CLI — workflow primitive / loop guards / evaluators / slice orchestration
- **Author:** SquabbyZ
- **Maintainers:** freedom0.0, peaks1992
- **Keywords:** peaks-loop, loop-engineering, ai-orchestration, ai-coding-agent, ai-programmer, multi-agent, claude-code, codex, z-code, cursor, trae, tongyi-lingma
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 1770
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,552,276 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/peaks-loop/v/4.0.53>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/SquabbyZ/peaks-loop>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/SquabbyZ/peaks-loop/issues>)