---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/replicas-engine"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/replicas-engine/v/0.1.959.md"
package: "replicas-engine"
report_status: "published"
title: "replicas-engine@0.1.959 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.959"
---

# replicas-engine@0.1.959 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:** 0.1.959
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. Runtime Cursor initialization installs package-owned hooks into agent configuration. This creates an agent extension setup risk, but no confirmed malicious attack was established.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-01T12:55:37.901Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-01T12:59:32.583Z
- **Download time:** 762 ms
- **Static scan time:** 10536 ms
- **AI review time:** 223383 ms
- **Total time:** 234682 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:** Runtime Cursor initialization installs package-owned hooks into agent configuration. This creates an agent extension setup risk, but no confirmed malicious attack was established.

- **Trigger:** Running the engine and initializing its Cursor manager.

- **Impact:** Subsequent Cursor tool use invokes package code for command protection and local pull-request notifications.

- **Evidence paths:** dist/src/index.js, dist/src/command-protection-hook.js, dist/src/post-tool-pr-hook.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-01T12:59:32.583Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Updates .cursor/hooks.json to register Replicas pre-tool and post-tool commands.

- **Rationale:** The source establishes automatic package-owned agent hook setup, warranting a warning under the agent integration policy. No npm install trigger or concrete malicious behavior supports blocking publication.

- **Files touched:** .cursor/hooks.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** Cursor manager initialization automatically installs Replicas agent hooks., The hook destination is .cursor/hooks.json under the configured home directory., The installer adds pre-tool and post-tool commands and saves the updated configuration., The installed hooks enforce command protection and notify the local engine about pull requests., package.json has no npm installation lifecycle hooks or runtime self-dependency.

- **Evidence against:** The hook behavior supports workspace agent management; no concrete malware behavior was identified., The flagged MCP configuration locations import agent settings; the active Pi adapter uses programmatic configuration that disables setup writes., The flagged credential operations manage credentials for their corresponding workspace agents.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to replicas-engine@0.1.959.

- Review the evidence and your use of replicas-engine@0.1.959 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chunk-CANEL3IU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/chunk-CANEL3IU.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: // src/utils/exec.ts
L9: import { exec, execFile } from "child_process";
L10: import { promisify } from "util";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chunk-CANEL3IU.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/chunk-CANEL3IU.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: import { promisify } from "util";
L11: var execAsync = promisify(exec);
L12: var execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
```

### 5. High: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L31230: if (this.opts.code.process) sourceCode = this.opts.code.process(sourceCode, sch);
L31231: const validate = new Function(`${names_1.default.self}`, `${names_1.default.scope}`, sourceCode)(this, this.scope.get());
L31232: this.scope.value(validateName, { ref: validate });
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import { createRequire as __createRequire } from 'node:module';
L3: const require = __createRequire(import.meta.url);
L4: import {
```

### 7. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L88: SUBPROCESS_MAX_BUFFER,
L89: execAsync,
L90: execFileAsync
...
L456: var B = (t, e) => {
L457: let { pathExt: r = process.env.PATHEXT || "" } = e, s = r.split(D.delimiter);
L458: if (s.indexOf("") !== -1) return true;
...
L508: X(p(), exports);
L509: var H = process.env._ISEXE_TEST_PLATFORM_ || process.platform;
L510: var b = H === "win32" ? O : E;
...
L532: // windows always checks the cwd first
L533: ...isWindows ? [process.cwd()] : [],
L534: ...(optPath || /* istanbul ignore next: very unusual */
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49106: function envKillSwitch(name) {
L49107: const value = process.env[name]?.trim().toLowerCase();
L49108: if (!value) return void 0;
...
L49119: // ../node_modules/.bun/pi-mcp-adapter@2.32.1+04b0d7b0bc944965/node_modules/pi-mcp-adapter/ui-session.ts
L49120: import { execFile as execFile6 } from "child_process";
L49121: import { randomUUID as randomUUID9 } from "crypto";
L49122: import net from "net";
L49123:
```

### 12. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/src/index.js:
import { mkdir, readFile, rename, unlink, writeFile } from "fs/promises";
async function atomicWriteFile(path7, data, options) {
await writeFile(tmpFile, data, { encoding: "utf-8", mode: options?.mode });
await atomicWriteFile(filePath, content, { mode: 384 });
await atomicWriteFile(helperPath, buildGitCredentialHelperScript(credentialsPath), { mode: 448 });
await atomicWriteFile(STATE_FILE, JSON.stringify(nextState, null, 2));
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
async fetchFreshCredentials(failureReason, failureKind = "rejected", failedCredential = ENGINE_ENV.REPLICAS_AGENT_CREDENTIALS.claude, allowedMeth
```

### 13. Critical: Remote Response Code Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Source passes code obtained from a remote response into a dynamic execution sink.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L88: SUBPROCESS_MAX_BUFFER,
L89: execAsync,
L90: execFileAsync
...
L456: var B = (t, e) => {
L457: let { pathExt: r = process.env.PATHEXT || "" } = e, s = r.split(D.delimiter);
L458: if (s.indexOf("") !== -1) return true;
...
L508: X(p(), exports);
L509: var H = process.env._ISEXE_TEST_PLATFORM_ || process.platform;
L510: var b = H === "win32" ? O : E;
...
L532: // windows always checks the cwd first
L533: ...isWindows ? [process.cwd()] : [],
L534: ...(optPath || /* istanbul ignore next: very unusual */
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/src/index.js spawns dist/src/chunk-BMC4R5IZ.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L88: SUBPROCESS_MAX_BUFFER,
L89: execAsync,
L90: execFileAsync
...
L456: var B = (t, e) => {
L457: let { pathExt: r = process.env.PATHEXT || "" } = e, s = r.split(D.delimiter);
L458: if (s.indexOf("") !== -1) return true;
...
L508: X(p(), exports);
L509: var H = process.env._ISEXE_TEST_PLATFORM_ || process.platform;
L510: var b = H === "win32" ? O : E;
...
L532: // windows always checks the cwd first
L533: ...isWindows ? [process.cwd()] : [],
L534: ...(optPath || /* istanbul ignore next: very unusual */
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source references telemetry or analytics APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/engine-watchdog.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/scripts/engine-watchdog.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/engine-watchdog.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3671
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. 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.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chunk-TFD6QK6J.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/chunk-TFD6QK6J.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 3
```

### 21. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chunk-BMC4R5IZ.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/chunk-BMC4R5IZ.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = replicas-engine@0.1.804
matchedPath = dist/src/chunk-BMC4R5IZ.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVwbGljYXMtZW5naW5l:0.1.804
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/gh.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/scripts/gh.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = replicas-engine@0.1.804
matchedPath = scripts/gh.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVwbGljYXMtZW5naW5l:0.1.804
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/chunk-UHBYG6JY.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/chunk-UHBYG6JY.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = replicas-engine@0.1.804
matchedPath = dist/src/chunk-UHBYG6JY.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVwbGljYXMtZW5naW5l:0.1.804
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 24. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/src/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/replicas-engine@0.1.959/dist/src/index.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 = replicas-engine@0.1.957
matchedIdentity = npm:cmVwbGljYXMtZW5naW5l:0.1.957
similarity = 0.786
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:** 25
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 26

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk 0.3.284 (Dependency)
- @anthropic-ai/sdk 0.128.0 (Dependency)
- @connectrpc/connect-node 1.7.0 (Dependency)
- @cursor/sdk 1.0.19 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-ai 0.85.0 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent 0.85.0 (Dependency)
- @earendil-works/pi-server 0.85.0 (Dependency)
- @hono/node-server ^1.19.5 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @opencode-ai/sdk 1.17.9 (Dependency)
- bash-language-server ^5.6.0 (Dependency)
- dockerfile-language-server-nodejs ^0.14.1 (Dependency)
- hono ^4.10.3 (Dependency)
- opencode-ai 1.17.9 (Dependency)
- pi-mcp-adapter 2.32.1 (Dependency)
- pyright ^1.1.413 (Dependency)
- typescript ^5.9.3 (Dependency)
- typescript-language-server ^4.4.1 (Dependency)
- undici 7.29.0 (Dependency)
- vscode-jsonrpc ^8.2.0 (Dependency)
- vscode-langservers-extracted ^4.10.0 (Dependency)
- ws 8.21.0 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.8.2 (Dependency)
- yaml-language-server ^1.19.2 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.0.0 (Dependency)
- node-pty 1.2.0-beta.15 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** replicas-engine
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.959
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-01T09:55:21.029Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:29:43.028Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T21:37:24.368Z
- **Known versions:** 281
- **Latest version:** 0.1.1029
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight API server for Replicas workspaces
- **Author:** Replicas
- **Maintainers:** replicas
- **Keywords:** replicas, workspace, api, hono
- **Artifact files:** 38
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,778,395 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/replicas-engine/v/0.1.959>)