---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/1.1.122.md"
package: "pi-harness-runtime"
report_status: "published"
title: "pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.1.122"
---

# pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 1.1.122
- **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.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. The install hook installs a package-owned Herdr clipboard plugin into the user's agent configuration, where it starts a detached clipboard bridge.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 92.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T14:44:08.168Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T14:45:21.381Z
- **Download time:** 1037 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2968 ms
- **AI review time:** 69206 ms
- **Total time:** 73213 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:** The install hook installs a package-owned Herdr clipboard plugin into the user's agent configuration, where it starts a detached clipboard bridge.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall, followed by Herdr plugin startup.

- **Impact:** Adds persistent clipboard integration to the user's Herdr setup without a separate setup step.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/copy-plugins.js, .pi/plugins/herdr-clipboard/herdr-plugin.toml

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T14:45:21.381Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook recursively copies the bundled plugin into the Herdr plugin directory; the plugin manifest starts a tmux bridge command.

- **Rationale:** The npm postinstall hook performs automatic setup of a package-owned Herdr extension that starts a clipboard bridge. This supports a warning for agent extension lifecycle risk, but the inspected code does not establish a malicious attack.

- **Files touched:** ~/.config/herdr/plugins, ~/.config/herdr/config.toml, ~/.pi-harness-runtime/cookies

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 92.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The npm postinstall hook creates a cookie directory, copies plugins, and may create a Herdr configuration file., The postinstall copy script recursively copies package-owned plugins into the user's Herdr plugin directory., The copied clipboard plugin declares a detached startup command that launches a tmux clipboard bridge., The quota scraper reads Codex authentication data and targets OpenAI's authentication and usage services.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected quota scraper targets the intended OpenAI services; this excerpt does not show forwarding credentials to an unrelated recipient., The Herdr plugin is package-owned clipboard integration, and its startup behavior is visible in the plugin manifest.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122.

- Review the evidence and your use of pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122 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/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = mkdir -p ~/.pi-harness-runtime/cookies && node scripts/copy-plugins.js && ([ -f ~/.config/herdr/config.toml ] || mkdir -p ~/.config/herdr && cp config.toml.example ~/.config/herdr/...
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/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 && node scripts/copy-plugins.js && ([ -f ~/.config/herdr/config.toml ] || mkdir -p ~/.config/herdr && cp config.toml.example ~/.config/herdr/...
```

### 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** harness/langchain/daemon.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/harness/langchain/daemon.ts>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L36: } from "node:fs";
L37: import { execSync } from "node:child_process";
L38: import { join } from "node:path";
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** harness/langchain/daemon.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/harness/langchain/daemon.ts>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L766: const { promisify } = await import("node:util");
L767: const execAsync = promisify(exec);
L768:
```

### 7. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** harness/e2e/playwright-runner.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/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);
```

### 8. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** harness/langchain/cron-cli.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/harness/langchain/cron-cli.ts>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L34: try {
L35: const { getHerdrWorkspace } = require("../../packages/event-bus/src/herdr-bus.js");
L36: return getHerdrWorkspace();
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 11. 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@1.1.122/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";
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 13. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** harness/e2e/auto-test-loop.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/harness/e2e/auto-test-loop.ts>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L493: try {
L494: execSync("npm install", { cwd: projectRoot, stdio: "ignore" });
L495: return { fixed: true, description: "Ran npm install" };
L496: } catch {
L497: return { fixed: false, description: "npm install failed" };
L498: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. 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@1.1.122/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]
```

### 17. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** .pi/plugins/herdr-clipboard/tmux-watch.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/.pi/plugins/herdr-clipboard/tmux-watch.sh>)

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = .pi/plugins/herdr-clipboard/tmux-watch.sh
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 1169
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 18. 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.

### 19. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** harness/langchain/checkpointer.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/harness/langchain/checkpointer.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_trace_path_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/auth/dist/minimax-browser-auth.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/auth/dist/minimax-browser-auth.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 = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/auth/dist/minimax-browser-auth.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/auth/src/minimax-browser-auth.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/auth/src/minimax-browser-auth.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/auth/src/minimax-browser-auth.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/clipboard/dist/src/gist-relay.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/clipboard/dist/src/gist-relay.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 = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = [redacted]-relay.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/clipboard/src/gist-relay.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/clipboard/src/gist-relay.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/clipboard/src/gist-relay.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/codex-adapter/dist/executor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/codex-adapter/dist/executor.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 = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/codex-adapter/dist/executor.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/codex-adapter/src/executor.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/codex-adapter/src/executor.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/codex-adapter/src/executor.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 26. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/generic-web-plugin/dist/analyzer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/generic-web-plugin/dist/analyzer.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 = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/generic-web-plugin/dist/analyzer.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/generic-web-plugin/src/analyzer.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/generic-web-plugin/src/analyzer.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/generic-web-plugin/src/analyzer.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/code-review/dist/engine.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/code-review/dist/engine.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 = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/code-review/dist/engine.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 29. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** packages/code-review/src/engine.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-harness-runtime@1.1.122/packages/code-review/src/engine.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = pi-harness-runtime@1.1.30
matchedPath = packages/code-review/src/engine.ts
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktaGFybmVzcy1ydW50aW1l:1.1.30
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 9
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 14

### Published dependency entries
- @langchain/core ^1.2.9 (Dependency)
- @langchain/langgraph ^1.4.13 (Dependency)
- @langchain/langgraph-checkpoint ^1.1.5 (Dependency)
- @langchain/openai ^1.5.10 (Dependency)
- @qdrant/js-client-rest ^1.19.0 (Dependency)
- chokidar ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- deepagents ^1.10.5 (Dependency)
- langchain ^1.5.10 (Dependency)
- pi-mcp-adapter 3.3.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.5.4 (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:** 1.1.122
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-30T06:29:35.354Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T07:55:24.416Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-09T05:41:26.566Z
- **Known versions:** 64
- **Latest version:** 1.1.155
- **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:** 2574
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,872,906 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/1.1.122>)
- [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>)
