---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/rainskills"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/rainskills/v/0.1.49.md"
package: "rainskills"
report_status: "published"
title: "rainskills@0.1.49 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.49"
---

# rainskills@0.1.49 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The vendor receives identifying host and deployment diagnostics without the user's informed consent.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.1.49
- **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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The explicitly invoked platform installer automatically transmits host and deployment details to the vendor's logging service without a consent prompt or opt-out. This is unauthorized data exfiltration, even though the npm package itself has no install lifecycle hook.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T06:30:57.944Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T06:31:42.209Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1107 ms
- **AI review time:** 42897 ms
- **Total time:** 44265 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 platform installer automatically sends host and cluster information to Rainbond logging endpoints without a consent prompt or opt-out.

- **Trigger:** A user runs \`rainskills platform install\`; the installer sends a startup message and may send more data on warnings or errors.

- **Impact:** The vendor receives identifying host and deployment diagnostics without the user's informed consent.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/rainskills.js, rainbond-platform-installer/assets/install-rainbond.sh

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T06:31:42.209Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The shell script collects \`uname -a\`, external IP, install identifiers and system details, then POSTs them to \`log.rainbond.com\`.

- **Attack narrative:** Running \`rainskills platform install\` launches the bundled installer. It derives an identifier from \`uname -a\`, then automatically sends a startup event containing raw OS information, external IP, install identifiers and method to \`log.rainbond.com\`. Warnings, errors and failure diagnostics can send additional host, Docker and cluster details. The inspected installer provides no consent prompt or telemetry opt-out for these uploads.

- **Rationale:** The explicitly invoked platform installer automatically transmits host and deployment details to the vendor's logging service without a consent prompt or opt-out. This is unauthorized data exfiltration, even though the npm package itself has no install lifecycle hook.

- **Files touched:** rainbond-platform-installer/assets/install-rainbond.sh

- **Network endpoints:** https://log.rainbond.com/dindlog, https://log.rainbond.com/logCollect

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The \`rainskills platform install\` command launches the bundled Rainbond installer., The installer reads \`uname -a\`, hashes it into a UUID, then sends a startup message automatically., That message includes raw OS information, external IP, UUID, install attempt ID and method, and is POSTed to \`https://log.rainbond.com/dindlog\`., Installer failure diagnostics can also send external IP, OS and architecture, kernel version, Docker information, and cluster details to \`https://log.rainbond.com/logCollect\`., No consent prompt or telemetry opt-out was found for these installer uploads.

- **Evidence against:** The package has no npm lifecycle scripts, so the uploads are not triggered merely by installing the npm package., The SSH key setup finding is behind an explicit \`rainskills ssh prepare\` command and requires an interactive SSH session.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to rainskills@0.1.49.

- Avoid installing rainskills@0.1.49. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** install.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/install.sh>)

Package contains a possible secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 2934
```

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/rainskills.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/bin/rainskills.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: const os = require("node:os");
L6: const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
L7: const { pathToFileURL } = require("node:url");
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/read-snapshot.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/bin/read-snapshot.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const SCOPES = new Set(["runtime", "app", "component", "delivery"]);
L4: const { classifyTool } = require("./tool-policy.js");
L5: const SENSITIVE_KEY = /(?:authorization|jwt|token|password|secret|credential|private[_-]?key|cookie|certificate|ssl)/i;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/runtime-smoke.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/bin/runtime-smoke.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L28: await new Promise((resolve) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", resolve));
L29: require("../rainbond-platform-installer/scripts/single-runtime.js").createSingleRuntimeStore({ home: probeHome }).write({ kind: "private", consoleOrigin: `http://127.0.0.1:${server...
L30: const bridge = path.join(home, ".rainbond/bin/rainskills-tools.js");
L31: const run = (args, input) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
L32: const child = spawn(process.execPath, [bridge, ...args, "--input", "-", "--skill-id", "rainbond-app-assistant"], {
L33: cwd: probeHome, env: { ...process.env, HOME: probeHome, USERPROFILE: probeHome, RAINSKILLS_TELEMETRY_DISABLED: "1", RAINSKILLS_CREDENTIAL_SOURCE: "", RAINBOND_URL: "", RAINBOND_JWT...
L34: });
```

### 9. Critical: Persistence Backdoor
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** rainbond-platform-installer/scripts/ssh-key-setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/rainbond-platform-installer/scripts/ssh-key-setup.js>)

Source writes persistence or remote-access backdoor material.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const path = require("node:path");
L7: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L8: const { createSecureStateStore } = require("./secure-state.js");
...
L11: 
L12: const REMOTE_AUTHORIZED_KEYS_SCRIPT = [
L13: "set -eu",
...
L65: 
L66: function assertSafeIdentityFile(filePath, { privateKey = false, platform = process.platform } = {}) {
L67: const info = fs.lstatSync(filePath);
...
L77: function ensureDefaultIdentity({
L78: home = os.homedir(),
L79: platform = process.platform,
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** rainbond-ai-assistant/scripts/validate\_ai\_engine\_output.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/rainbond-ai-assistant/scripts/validate_ai_engine_output.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = rainbond-ai-assistant/scripts/validate_ai_engine_output.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1341
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

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:** rainbond-platform-installer/scripts/windows-platform.js\#virtual:string-array:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/rainskills@0.1.49/rainbond-platform-installer/scripts/windows-platform.js%23virtual%3Astring-array%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
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- yaml 2.9.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** rainskills
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.49
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-10-29T05:46:12.775Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-06T19:03:24.751Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-30T06:31:47.023Z
- **Known versions:** 32
- **Latest version:** 0.1.50
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Agent Skills for deploying, troubleshooting, and verifying applications on Rainbond from Codex, Claude Code, and other AI coding agents
- **Keywords:** rainbond, ai-agent, agent-skills, deployment, application-delivery, self-hosted, kubernetes, devops, vibe-coding, codex, claude-code, pi-agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Supported OS:** darwin, linux, win32
- **Artifact files:** 388
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,336,394 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/rainskills/v/0.1.49>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/goodrain/rainskills.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://www.rainbond.com/rainskills>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/goodrain/rainskills/issues>)
