---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/psyclaw/v/0.30.22"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/psyclaw/v/0.30.22.md"
package: "psyclaw"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "psyclaw@0.30.22 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "0.30.22"
---

# psyclaw@0.30.22 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 0.30.22
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The inspected excerpts show no concrete attack, but they do not cover the required bundled runtime source set needed to establish a clean verdict. Further source review is needed to resolve that coverage gap.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 48.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-23T06:36:36.140Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-23T06:42:56.607Z
- **Download time:** 2568 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1312 ms
- **AI review time:** 376586 ms
- **Total time:** 380467 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:** No concrete attack was identified in the inspected excerpts, but the review did not resolve the required bundled runtime paths.

- **Trigger:** No malicious trigger was established in the inspected excerpts.

- **Impact:** No concrete attack impact was established; the incomplete source coverage prevents a clean assessment.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-23T06:42:56.607Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The reviewed launcher invokes a local rebranding script, and the reviewed package-manager methods handle command results; broader runtime behavior remains unassessed.

- **Rationale:** The inspected excerpts show no concrete attack, but they do not cover the required bundled runtime source set needed to establish a clean verdict. Further source review is needed to resolve that coverage gap.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 48.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The manifest’s scripts include a prepublish build; the inspected excerpt does not establish an install hook., Plugin setup checks that a recommendation is installable and has a source reference before proceeding., The inspected launcher starts the rebranding script with shell execution disabled., The inspected dependency methods report command failures and exit status.

- **Evidence against:** The required clean-review paths include a broad bundled runtime set that was not fully inspected, so a clean verdict is not established.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to psyclaw@0.30.22.

- Review the evidence and your use of psyclaw@0.30.22 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/apps/panel/observability.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/dist/apps/panel/observability.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L39: async function loadEsm(url) {
L40: return import(url);
L41: }
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Low: Telemetry
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/windows/x64/fd.exe
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/vendor/windows/x64/fd.exe>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/windows/x64/fd.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 4104192
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** vendor/ars/tools/release-discipline/scripts/sync-toolkit.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/vendor/ars/tools/release-discipline/scripts/sync-toolkit.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = vendor/ars/tools/release-discipline/scripts/sync-toolkit.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 5474
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** vendor/ars/scripts/adapters/tests/conftest.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/vendor/ars/scripts/adapters/tests/conftest.py>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = [redacted].py
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 2553
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/tui/app.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/dist/src/tui/app.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

### 15. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/psyclaw@0.30.22/dist/src/chat.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 = psyclaw@0.30.19
matchedIdentity = npm:cHN5Y2xhdw:0.30.19
similarity = 0.892
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 9
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @earendil-works/pi-ai 0.84.4 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent 0.84.4 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-tui 0.84.4 (Dependency)
- @sentry/node ^10.73.0 (Dependency)
- ink ^7.1.1 (Dependency)
- posthog-node ^5.51.7 (Dependency)
- react ^19.2.8 (Dependency)
- typebox 1.3.7 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** psyclaw
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.30.22
- **License:** CC-BY-NC-4.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-23T06:28:07.927Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-22T18:09:31.591Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T05:46:53.999Z
- **Known versions:** 46
- **Latest version:** 0.31.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A standalone, evidence-grounded social-science research agent with research contracts, evidence gates, and recoverable workflows
- **Maintainers:** exekiel
- **Keywords:** ai, agent, research, social-science, evidence, pi
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 1572
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 35,217,350 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/psyclaw/v/0.30.22>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Exekiel179/psyclaw>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Exekiel179/psyclaw#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Exekiel179/psyclaw/issues>)
