---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-harness-runtime/v/1.1.134.md"
package: "pi-harness-runtime"
report_status: "published"
title: "pi-harness-runtime@1.1.134 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.1.134"
---

# pi-harness-runtime@1.1.134 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:** 1.1.134
- **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 npm postinstall hook installs package-owned plugins into the user's Herdr plugin directory and creates a Herdr configuration file if absent. This is first-party agent extension setup and supports a warning, with no confirmed malicious attack established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T14:45:40.935Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T14:47:22.120Z
- **Download time:** 1520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3323 ms
- **AI review time:** 96340 ms
- **Total time:** 101185 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 npm postinstall hook installs package-owned plugins into the user's Herdr plugin directory and creates a Herdr configuration file if absent. This is first-party agent extension setup and supports a warning, with no confirmed malicious attack established.

- **Trigger:** Installing the npm package runs its postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** Package plugins become available to Herdr after installation; source inspection did not establish credential theft, destructive behavior, or remote payload execution.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-08T14:47:22.120Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook runs a script that recursively copies the package's .pi/plugins entries into ~/.config/herdr/plugins and creates ~/.config/herdr/config.toml when absent.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook performs automatic first-party Herdr plugin setup, which is warning-level agent extension lifecycle behavior under the review policy. Inspected quota code targets OpenAI's own OAuth and usage services, and the similarity hints do not independently demonstrate an attack.

- **Files touched:** package.json, scripts/copy-plugins.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The postinstall hook automatically runs a script that copies plugins and creates a Herdr configuration file when absent., The script copies package plugins into the user's Herdr plugin directory, which is first-party agent extension setup and warrants a warning under the install-control policy., The ChatGPT quota scraper reads the Codex auth file and targets OpenAI's OAuth and ChatGPT usage endpoints., The extension checks for the Codex auth file before starting its automatic quota fetch.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected quota-fetch locations point to the credential's intended OpenAI service endpoints., The flagged source files inspected implement quota scraping, code execution sandboxing, web-project analysis, and code review; the scanner similarity labels alone do not establish malicious behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pi-harness-runtime@1.1.134.

- Review the evidence and your use of pi-harness-runtime@1.1.134 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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/.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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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@1.1.134/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:** 1.1.134
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-02T08:48:25.868Z
- **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:** 7,885,421 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/1.1.134>)
- [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>)
