---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-maestro-flow"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-maestro-flow/v/0.22.0.md"
package: "pi-maestro-flow"
report_status: "published"
title: "pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.22.0"
---

# pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0 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:** 0.22.0
- **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. npm postinstall alters Pi/Maestro configuration to enable this package's workflows and two companion extensions. No confirmed data theft, remote payload retrieval, or stealth persistence was found in the inspected paths.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 88.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-21T04:30:27.176Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-21T04:31:21.302Z
- **Download time:** 768 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6761 ms
- **AI review time:** 46592 ms
- **Total time:** 54126 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:** npm postinstall alters Pi/Maestro configuration to enable this package's workflows and two companion extensions. No confirmed data theft, remote payload retrieval, or stealth persistence was found in the inspected paths.

- **Trigger:** npm installation of pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0

- **Impact:** Adds a Pi keybinding, package registrations, and Maestro workflow resources under user-home configuration directories.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/configure-keybindings.mjs, scripts/install-workflows.mjs, scripts/register-companion-packages.mjs, src/tools/web-access/credential-source.ts, src/mcpx-bridge.ts, .pi/skills/team-swarm/scripts/test\_aco.py

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-21T04:31:21.302Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** first-party Pi/Maestro extension and workflow setup

- **Rationale:** The package has an install-time AI-agent configuration surface, warranting a warning under the lifecycle policy. Inspection found bounded, package-aligned setup rather than malicious behavior.

- **Files touched:** ~/.pi/agent/keybindings.json, ~/.pi/agent/settings.json, ~/.pi/agent/pi-maestro-flow-companions.json, ~/.maestro/workflows, ~/.maestro/arch-kb

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 88.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** postinstall runs three setup scripts., Install changes Pi keybindings and registers companion extensions., Install invokes the Maestro CLI and can copy workflows into ~/.maestro.

- **Evidence against:** Companion registration is limited to pi-maestro-teammate and pi-cockpit and preserves unowned overrides., No credential collection or network exfiltration is present in inspected install scripts., Credential command execution is only for an explicitly configured credential source and uses a restricted environment.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0 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-maestro-flow@0.22.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/configure-keybindings.mjs && node scripts/install-workflows.mjs && node scripts/register-companion-packages.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/configure-keybindings.mjs && node scripts/install-workflows.mjs && node scripts/register-companion-packages.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-workflows.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/scripts/install-workflows.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
L6: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L7:
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/tools/web-access/credential-source.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/src/tools/web-access/credential-source.ts>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L3: 
L4: const execAsync = promisify(exec);
L5: const COMMAND_TIMEOUT_MS = 5_000;
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/simulate-272k-stuck.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/scripts/simulate-272k-stuck.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L24: const AM = process.env.AM_MODULE ?? join(ROOT, "src/compaction/auto-compaction.ts");
L25: const { createMidTurnAutoCompaction, estimateContextTokens, endsWithCompleteToolResultBatch } = await import(pathToFileURL(AM).href);
L26: const { deriveCompactionThreshold } = await import(pathToFileURL(join(dirname(AM), "compaction-threshold.ts")).href);
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/tools/browser/manager.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/src/tools/browser/manager.ts>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L1: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
...
L37: export interface BrowserRunOutput {
L38: displays: Array<{ type: "text"; text: string } | { type: "image"; data: string; mimeType: string }>;
L39: returnValue: unknown;
...
L357: const data = await source.screenshot({ type: "png", ...(source === page ? { fullPage: options?.fullPage } : {}) }) as Uint8Array;
L358: const buffer = Buffer.from(data);
L359: const destination = options?.save
...
L461: // and a leftover browser from a crashed session can be detected and reused.
L462: const BROWSER_PROFILE_BASE = process.env.PI_BROWSER_PROFILES_DIR ?? path.join(os.homedir(), ".pi", "browser-profiles");
L463: 
...
L490: if (!port) return undefined;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** src/mcpx-bridge.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/src/mcpx-bridge.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L15: import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L16: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L17: import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, renameSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L18: import { isIP } from "node:net";
L19: import { homedir } from "node:os";
...
L21: 
L22: const bridgeDisabled = () => process.env.PI_MCPX_BRIDGE === "0";
L23: const registeredPaths = new Set<string>();
```

### 12. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** src/mcpx-bridge.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/src/mcpx-bridge.ts>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L15: import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
L16: import { spawn, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L17: import { existsSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, renameSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
L18: import { isIP } from "node:net";
L19: import { homedir } from "node:os";
...
L21: 
L22: const bridgeDisabled = () => process.env.PI_MCPX_BRIDGE === "0";
L23: const registeredPaths = new Set<string>();
...
L46: // controls and the startup bridge find it here without PATH changes.
L47: const homeBin = join(homedir(), ".mcpx", "bin", process.platform === "win32" ? "mcpx.exe" : "mcpx");
L48: if (existsSync(homeBin)) { cachedMcpx = homeBin; return homeBin; }
...
L54: if (probe.status === 0) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** optional/skills/scholar-thesis-docx/scripts/audit\_docx\_ooxml.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/optional/skills/scholar-thesis-docx/scripts/audit_docx_ooxml.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = optional/skills/scholar-thesis-docx/scripts/audit_docx_ooxml.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 18004
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 16. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** .pi/skills/team-swarm/scripts/test\_aco.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/.pi/skills/team-swarm/scripts/test_aco.py>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = .pi/skills/team-swarm/scripts/test_aco.py
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 19256
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 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. Medium: Remote Tarball Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/package.json>)

Package manifest contains a dependency pinned to a remote tarball URL.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
Remote tarball dependency specs: @konbakuyomu/smart-search@https://github.[redacted].tar.gz
```

### 19. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 20. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 21. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/mcpx-bridge.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/pi-maestro-flow@0.22.0/src/mcpx-bridge.ts>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = pi-maestro-flow@0.21.6
matchedIdentity = npm:cGktbWFlc3Ryby1mbG93:0.21.6
similarity = 0.850
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
- **Dependencies:** 21
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 27

### Published dependency entries
- @ff-labs/fff-node 0.10.1 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps 1.7.4 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.30.0 (Dependency)
- @mozilla/readability ^0.6.0 (Dependency)
- @types/turndown ^5.0.6 (Dependency)
- cross-spawn 7.0.6 (Dependency)
- linkedom ^0.18.13 (Dependency)
- maestro-flow 0.5.79 (Dependency)
- open 10.2.0 (Dependency)
- p-limit ^7.3.1 (Dependency)
- pi-cockpit 0.17.0 (Dependency)
- pi-maestro-backend-core \* (Dependency)
- pi-maestro-settings-core 0.2.0 (Dependency)
- pi-maestro-teammate 2.0.0 (Dependency)
- promise.try ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- proper-lockfile 4.1.2 (Dependency)
- puppeteer-core 24.31.0 (Dependency)
- recheck 4.5.0 (Dependency)
- turndown ^7.2.4 (Dependency)
- unpdf ^1.8.0 (Dependency)
- zod 3.25.76 (Dependency)
- @konbakuyomu/smart-search https://github.com/konbakuyomu/smartsearch/archive/667c465d0f6ea16a423f03c434f94e21505d3595.tar.gz (OptionalDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-agent-core \* (PeerDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-ai \* (PeerDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent \* (PeerDependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-tui \* (PeerDependency)
- typebox \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** pi-maestro-flow
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.22.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-20T16:02:43.672Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-12T14:48:16.766Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T17:13:23.611Z
- **Known versions:** 27
- **Latest version:** 0.31.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** All-in-one multi-agent orchestration for the Pi coding agent — parallel teammate dispatch, goals, plans, knowledge system, MCP/LSP/browser, and cockpit visualization in a single install
- **Maintainers:** dyw1234
- **Keywords:** pi-package, pi, pi-coding-agent, maestro, agents, explore, delegate, moa, workflow, orchestration, swarm, aco
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 657
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,546,452 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/pi-maestro-flow/v/0.22.0>)
