---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/0.10.21"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/0.10.21.md"
package: "pi-harness-runtime"
report_status: "published"
title: "pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.10.21"
---

# pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 15 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.10.21
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 15 finding(s) at 93.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-08T19:27:20.292Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-08T19:27:23.899Z
- **Download time:** 501 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3033 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 3607 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = mkdir -p ~/.pi-harness-runtime/cookies
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = mkdir -p ~/.pi-harness-runtime/cookies
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** harness/e2e/playwright-runner.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/harness/e2e/playwright-runner.ts>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L169: // eslint-disable-next-line no-eval
L170: return eval(String(cond)) as boolean; // eslint-disable-line
L171: }, condition);
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** packages/write-review/src/trigger.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/packages/write-review/src/trigger.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L67: function scanDir(dir: string): void {
L68: const { readdirSync, statSync } = require("fs");
L69: try {
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** packages/scheduler-adapter/dist/cron.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/packages/scheduler-adapter/dist/cron.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: *
L4: * Writes crontab entries for scheduled tasks.
L5: * Entries are managed via a marker block so unschedule() is clean.
L6: */
L7: import { execSync } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { writeFileSync, unlinkSync } from "node:fs";
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/scan-secrets.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/scripts/scan-secrets.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/scan-secrets.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1945
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

### 15. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** packages/todo-bd-sync/dist/src/extension.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@0.10.21/packages/todo-bd-sync/dist/src/extension.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 = pi-harness-runtime@0.10.26
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:0.10.26
similarity = 0.967
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- chokidar ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- deepagents ^1.10.5 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-ai \* (PeerDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent \* (PeerDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-tui \* (PeerDependency)
- typebox \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** pi-harness-runtime
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.10.21
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-08T19:24:31.538Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T07:55:24.416Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-16T14:12:36.597Z
- **Known versions:** 26
- **Latest version:** 1.1.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** \[BETA\] Codex-style /usage status + autonomous coding harness for pi. Not production ready — expect breaking changes.
- **Author:** MooCoding
- **Maintainers:** manotluijiu
- **Keywords:** pi-package, pi, pi-coding-agent, extension, usage, tokens, cost, codex
- **Artifact files:** 2138
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,928,722 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/0.10.21>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/ManotLuijiu/pi-harness-runtime>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/ManotLuijiu/pi-harness-runtime#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/ManotLuijiu/pi-harness-runtime/issues>)
