psyclaw@0.31.5
A standalone, evidence-grounded social-science research agent with research contracts, evidence gates, and recoverable workflows
AI Security Review
scanned 2d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package's default error telemetry sends truncated, home-prefix-redacted local paths to its analytics services. This is disclosed and can be disabled, but the retained project paths make the runtime telemetry suspicious under the package review rules.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
CLI startup enables telemetry by default; an uncaught, non-expected CLI error triggers an error report.
Impact
Project directory names and structure may be disclosed to the package's analytics services, even though the telemetry notice says personal identity is excluded.
Mechanism
Error reports include `cwd` and, when available, `failed_path`. Home-directory prefixes are shortened to `~`, but the remaining project path is retained and sent to PostHog; Sentry also receives the exception and context.
AI rationale
The package's default error telemetry sends truncated, home-prefix-redacted local paths to its analytics services. This is disclosed and can be disabled, but the retained project paths make the runtime telemetry suspicious under the package review rules.
Evidence
dist/src/observability/preference.jsdist/src/cli.jsdist/src/observability/index.jsdist/src/observability/node-sdks.jsdist/src/observability/error-context.js~/.psyclaw/agent/psyclaw-settings.json
Network endpoints2
us.posthog.como4512050300911616.ingest.us.sentry.io
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 87.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- Telemetry is enabled by default, and CLI startup initializes it before dispatching commands.
- On CLI errors, the handler supplies the current working directory; error telemetry sends `cwd` and `failed_path` after replacing the home-directory prefix with `~` and truncating values to 240 characters. Project directory paths can therefore still be sent.
- The analytics endpoints are PsyClaw's configured PostHog and Sentry services.
- The notice describes anonymous usage and error telemetry, offers an opt-out, and says research content is excluded; the LLM analytics code omits prompts and completions.
Evidence against
- Telemetry can be disabled with `psyclaw telemetry off` or the `PSYCLAW_TELEMETRY=0` environment setting.
- LLM generation analytics are limited to usage and model metadata rather than prompts or completions.
- The package manifest declares `prepublishOnly`, but no install lifecycle hook.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVars
Source & flagged code
5 flaggeddist/apps/panel/observability.jsView file
39async function loadEsm(url) {
L40: return import(url);
L41: }
Medium
Dynamic Require
Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.
dist/apps/panel/observability.jsView on unpkg · L39vendor/windows/x64/fd.exeView file
•path = vendor/windows/x64/fd.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 4104192
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
vendor/ars/tools/release-discipline/scripts/sync-toolkit.shView file
Findings
2 High6 Medium6 Low
HighPayload In Excluded Dirvendor/ars/scripts/adapters/tests/conftest.py
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/src/tui/app.js#virtual:normalized:round1
MediumDynamic Requiredist/apps/panel/observability.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumShips Native Binaryvendor/windows/x64/fd.exe
MediumShips Build Helpervendor/ars/tools/release-discipline/scripts/sync-toolkit.sh
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowNon Install Lifecycle Scripts
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowTelemetry
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to psyclaw@0.31.5.
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