---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/recess-cli/v/1.6.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/recess-cli/v/1.6.0.md"
package: "recess-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "recess-cli@1.6.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.6.0"
---

# recess-cli@1.6.0 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:** 1.6.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. Postinstall automatically installs this package's bundled Recess skill into Codex and Claude skill directories. No credential harvesting, remote payload execution, or broad agent-config mutation was confirmed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-13T05:25:05.931Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-13T05:25:58.167Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 581 ms
- **AI review time:** 51149 ms
- **Total time:** 52236 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Postinstall automatically installs this package's bundled Recess skill into Codex and Claude skill directories. No credential harvesting, remote payload execution, or broad agent-config mutation was confirmed.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall for a published tarball lacking src/

- **Impact:** An installed agent will discover and follow the Recess CLI skill without an explicit setup command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/setup.js, dist/skill-update.js, dist/config.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-13T05:25:58.167Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** copies package-owned skill files into named agent skill directories

- **Rationale:** This is a real unattended agent-extension lifecycle side effect, so it warrants a warning. Its scope is package-owned skills and the source includes containment/type checks for later explicit server updates; no malicious chain was confirmed.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/setup.js, skill/recess-cli, ~/.codex/skills/recess-cli, ~/.claude/skills/recess-cli, ~/.codex/skills/recess-admin, ~/.claude/skills/recess-admin

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** npm postinstall dynamically imports local setup code and invokes installSkill., InstallSkill writes a bundled skill into Codex and Claude skill directories during installation., The lifecycle copy removes only the package's legacy recess-admin skill directory.

- **Evidence against:** The postinstall path performs no network request; it imports only dist/setup.js., Runtime served-skill updates are limited to .md files and reject absolute or traversal paths., Network defaults target Recess API/SSO endpoints for this CLI's authenticated operations.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/recess-cli@1.6.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/recess-cli@1.6.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/recess-cli@1.6.0/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L30: 
L31: const { installSkill } = await import(setupModule);
L32: const destinations = await installSkill();
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 12. Medium: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/recess-cli@1.6.0/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

npm postinstall dynamically imports local setup code and invokes installSkill.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
async function main() {
  // Rule 2: a published tarball ships `dist/` and no `src/`; a checkout has
  // both. Only the former is a real end-user install.
  const isCheckout = fs.existsSync(path.resolve(here, "..", "src"));
  if (isCheckout || !fs.existsSync(setupModule)) return;

  const { installSkill } = await import(setupModule);
  const destinations = await installSkill();
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- openapi-fetch ^0.14.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** recess-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.6.0
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-12T22:15:27.874Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T18:55:21.740Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-04T08:15:05.354Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 2.6.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Safe Recess administration and family AI tools from the command line.
- **Maintainers:** kaelin
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 17
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 216,257 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/recess-cli/v/1.6.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/tryrecess/monolith>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/tryrecess/monolith#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/tryrecess/monolith/issues>)