pennyrouter@0.3.36

Install and manage PennyRouter local coding-agent integrations.

AI Security Review

scanned 11d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The manifest has no npm lifecycle hooks, and the flagged integration code is associated with CLI or feature behavior. The scanner signals do not establish an automatic install-time attack or concrete malicious behavior.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

User invokes the PennyRouter CLI or standalone web demo.

Impact

No confirmed malicious effect or attack surface was established from the inspected source.

Mechanism

The inspected source associates configuration and session handling with CLI features; the demo imports process, filesystem, and child-process APIs.

AI rationale

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Clean at 87.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for AI clean decision

package.json exposes a CLI but defines no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook.
Agent configuration and session changes are tied to PennyRouter CLI or feature operations; the inspected source does not establish an automatic npm install trigger.
The flagged standalone web server imports process and filesystem APIs, but those imports alone do not establish malicious behavior.

Evidence against

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShellWebSocket

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

scanned 34 file(s), 405 KB of source, external domains: 127.0.0.1, api.pennyrouter.com, app.example, chatgpt.com, gateway.example, gateway.example.com, gateway.internal.example.com, gw.example, new.example, old.example, opencode.ai, openrouter.example.test, other.example, pennyrouter.com, private.example, private.example.test, proxy.example.com, www.perplexity.ai

Source & flagged code

10 flagged

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView file

Lines 1-23javascript

1import { createServer } from 'node:http';

2import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';

3import { mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises';

4import { spawn, execFile } from 'node:child_process';

5import { join, dirname } from 'node:path';

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView on unpkg · L3

6import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';

7import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';

8import { promisify } from 'node:util';

9import { WebSocketServer } from 'ws';

10import pty from 'node-pty';

11import { ClaudeMeter, saveReport } from './claude-meter.mjs';

13const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

14const compareDir = dirname(here);

15const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);

16const args = process.argv.slice(2);

17const claude = args.includes('--claude');

18const nodeMeter = args.includes('--compare-node') ||

19 (args.includes('--compare') && process.platform === 'win32');

20const compare = args.includes('--compare') || nodeMeter;

21const pythonCompare = compare && !nodeMeter && process.platform !== 'win32';

22const portArg = args.find((arg) => /^--port=\d+$/.test(arg));

23const port = Number(portArg?.slice(7) ?? 8789);

Lines 196-228javascript

196 session.onData((data) => send({ type: 'output', side: message.side, data }));

197 session.onExit(({ exitCode }) => {

198 sessions.delete(message.side);

199 send({ type: 'exit', side: message.side, code: exitCode });

src/launch.jsView file

Lines 322-362javascript

322 let replace = false;

323 try {

324 replace = (await lstat(link)).isSymbolicLink();

325 } catch (error) {

326

src/launch.test.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import assert from "node:assert/strict";

2import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

3import fs from "node:fs";

Medium

Install Persistence

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

src/launch.test.jsView on unpkg · L1

4import

src/harnesses/codegpt.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

High

Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

src/harnesses/codegpt.jsView on unpkg · L1

3export const codeGptHarness = {

4 id: "codegpt",

src/statusline.jsView file

•Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path: tatusline (all lines) |] penny segment (penny / penny (sub) // / penny (byok) / penny off). the wrapped statusline's first line gets the penny suffix; // any further lines (e.g. a context bar) pass through verbatim. // never blocks on the network: reads a per-session cache and refreshes it detached. import { readfilesync, mkdirsync, writefilesync, statsync } from "node:fs"; import { spawn, spawnsync } from "node:child_process"; import { join, basename } from "node:path"; import os from "node:os"; const statedir = join( process.env.xdg_state_home || join(os.homedir(), ".local", "state"), "pennyrouter", ); const cachedir = join(statedir, "statusline-cache"); const titlesessionfile = process.env.pe

High

External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

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

src/statusline.jsView on unpkg

standalone/claude-proxy.shView file

•path = standalone/claude-proxy.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 8224 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

standalone/claude-proxy.shView on unpkg

src/mcp-register.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

src/mcp-register.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

src/cli.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = pennyrouter@0.3.17 matchedIdentity = npm:cGVubnlyb3V0ZXI:0.3.17 similarity = 0.710 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

High

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

src/cli.jsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

10 flagged · loading source

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView file

3import { mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'; L4: import { spawn, execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L5: import { join, dirname } from 'node:path';

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView on unpkg · L3

216server.listen(port, '127.0.0.1', () => { L217: const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`; L218: console.log(`Penny Compare live terminal demo: ${url}`); ... L221: if (process.platform === 'win32') { L222: execFile(process.env.ComSpec || 'cmd.exe', ['/d', '/s', '/c', `start "" "${url}"`], L223: { windowsHide: true }, (error) => {

High

Same File Env Network Execution

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

standalone/web-demo/server.mjsView on unpkg · L216

src/launch.jsView file

342const body = process.platform === "win32" L343: // `node` and the native harnesses are normally npm .cmd shims on Windows. cmd.exe L344: // resolves those through PATHEXT, while Node's direct spawn does not.

Findings

8 High5 Medium4 Low

HighChild Processstandalone/web-demo/server.mjs

HighShellsrc/launch.js

HighSame File Env Network Executionstandalone/web-demo/server.mjs

HighSandbox Evasion Gated Capabilitysrc/harnesses/codegpt.js

HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationsrc/statusline.js

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationsrc/launch.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limitedsrc/mcp-register.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltasrc/cli.js

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumInstall Persistencesrc/launch.test.js

MediumShips Build Helperstandalone/claude-proxy.sh

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pennyrouter@0.3.36.

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Evidence last updated: 2026-10-11 19:03:23.401Z (UTC).

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