registry / recess-cli / 3.0.0
recess-cli@3.0.0
Safe Recess administration and family AI tools from the command line.
AI Security Review
scanned 14d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package's automatic postinstall mutates first-party agent skill directories, which warrants a lifecycle integration warning. The inspected behavior is package-owned skill setup; no concrete malicious chain was established.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Installing the package through npm runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
An unattended installation changes agent skill configuration and content for the current user's Codex and Claude homes.
Mechanism
The hook imports bundled setup code, which removes and recopies the package-owned skill directories and removes a superseded skill directory under the same agent skills roots.
AI rationale
The package's automatic postinstall mutates first-party agent skill directories, which warrants a lifecycle integration warning. The inspected behavior is package-owned skill setup; no concrete malicious chain was established.
Evidence
package.jsonscripts/postinstall.mjsdist/setup.js
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 97.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The manifest runs a postinstall script that invokes the bundled setup module.
- Postinstall imports setup and calls installSkill for published installs.
- Setup replaces skill directories under Codex and Claude configuration homes, and removes a superseded skill directory.
- The CLI also supports explicit skill setup, and the package-owned integration installs its own bundled skill.
- The reviewed app command writes project-level AGENTS.md and FORKS.md files in an app scaffold.
- Authentication sends device authorization requests to the configured Recess API origin.
Evidence against
- No source evidence inspected shows credential forwarding to an unrelated endpoint or remote payload execution.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
6 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.mjs
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkgdist/commands/onboarding.jsView file
564patternName = generic_password
severity = medium
line = 564
Medium
Secret Pattern
Package contains a possible secret pattern.
dist/commands/onboarding.jsView on unpkg · L564Findings
3 High6 Medium5 Low
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/auth.js
HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/cli.js
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
MediumSecret Patterndist/commands/onboarding.js
MediumDynamic Requirescripts/postinstall.mjs
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowNo License
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to recess-cli@3.0.0.
See all versions of recess-cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of recess-cli@3.0.0 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.
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