---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/scip-query"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/scip-query/report.md"
package: "scip-query"
report_status: "published"
title: "scip-query@0.10.12 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "0.10.12"
---

# scip-query@0.10.12 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Package installation can alter AI-agent behavior across user environments and invoke system package installers.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.10.12
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Source confirms the scanner finding: the lifecycle hook changes multiple user-level AI-agent skill roots rather than requiring an explicit setup command. This meets the firewall block policy regardless of the documented product intent.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-03T09:50:30.297Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-03T09:50:56.581Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1420 ms
- **AI review time:** 24352 ms
- **Total time:** 26284 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:** npm installation mutates existing Claude, Codex, and shared agent skill control surfaces. It installs package-supplied skills without an explicit user command.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall

- **Impact:** Package installation can alter AI-agent behavior across user environments and invoke system package installers.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/postinstall.js, dist/chunk-ONPCQ2PM.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-03T09:50:56.581Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** home-directory agent-skill symlink replacement and dependency auto-install

- **Attack narrative:** During npm postinstall, the package discovers existing agent roots and creates or replaces symlinks for its bundled skills in Claude, Codex, and shared agent directories. It also attempts to install SCIP through Homebrew or Go if absent. This is unconsented install-time mutation of broad, foreign AI-agent control surfaces.

- **Rationale:** Source confirms the scanner finding: the lifecycle hook changes multiple user-level AI-agent skill roots rather than requiring an explicit setup command. This meets the firewall block policy regardless of the documented product intent.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/skills/\*, ~/.codex/skills/\*, ~/.agents/skills/\*

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** package.json runs dist/postinstall.js on install., dist/postinstall.js symlinks 21 bundled skills into ~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, and ~/.agents/skills., The hook removes an existing skill symlink before replacing it., The install hook also auto-runs brew install or go install when SCIP is absent.

- **Evidence against:** No credential harvesting or exfiltration was found., The package documents its skill installation behavior in README.md.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to scip-query@0.10.12.

- Avoid installing scip-query@0.10.12. 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. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/postinstall.js || true
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/runtime.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/dist/runtime.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{c as k,d as E,e as M}from"./chunk-ONPCQ2PM.js";import{a as w}from"./chunk-UUBMFL3F.js";import{readFileSync as $,writeFileSync as D,existsSync as j,mkdirSync as _}from"fs";im...
L2: `),t}function f(i){return _(i,{recursive:!0}),i}import{execFileSync as O,fork as L}from"child_process";import{statSync as U,watch as H}from"fs";import{join as q,relative as X}from"...
L3: //# sourceMappingURL=runtime.js.map
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/chunk-RGKRYO22.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/dist/chunk-RGKRYO22.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import{a as ce}from"./chunk-XHMVZFA6.js";import{a as ae}from"./chunk-7XTO4YXB.js";import{a as S}from"./chunk-B32FX5KB.js";import{a as se}from"./chunk-RUV5IY25.js";import{a as oe}fr...
L2: `).toLowerCase(),t=[],n=A(i,[".scipquery","declaredcouplings","suppression","suppressions","config","configuration","json"]);if(n.length>0)return t.push(`configuration/example term...
L3: `),{path:n,findingCount:t.length}}function ue(e,i={}){let t=j(e,i.path);if(!Ee(t))throw new Error(`No baseline found at ${t}. Create one with: scip-query health --write-baseline`);...
```

### 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/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/dist/cli.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L791: *.d.ts
L792: `;function Xh(e,t,n){let i=ij(t,n);if(!i)return!1;try{return e.ignores(i)}catch{return!1}}function ij(e,t){if(!t||t===".")return null;if(!Jh(t)&&!t.startsWith(".."))return t.replac...
L793: `),n}function ty(e,t){let n=At(e,co),i=Ue(e),r={...i,suppressions:[...i.suppressions??[],t]},o=Yi(r,{projectRoot:e}).filter(s=>s.level==="error");if(o.length>0){let s=o.map(a=>`${a...
L794: `),{path:n,suppressionCount:r.suppressions?.length??0}}function pu(e){return oj(e,{recursive:!0}),e}function dj(e){return typeof e=="object"&&e!==null&&!Array.isArray(e)}function N...
L795: ${m}`:""}`));return}try{t(JSON.parse(Buffer.concat(o).toString("utf8")))}catch(p){n(new Error(`${e.label} returned invalid JSON: ${p instanceof Error?p.message:p}`))}})})}async fun...
...
L805: Axes:`),console.l
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/dist/cli.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L869: `).get();return{version:2,tsconfig:n,files:ui(t),db:i}}function v1(e){let t=lb();return{projectRoot:e.projectRoot,context:Zy(e.projectRoot,e.configPath),symbolLookup:eb(e.db,e.proj...
L870: Install from: https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/releases`);if(t("scip CLI not found on PATH. Attempting auto-install..."),!Sy(t))throw new Error(`The scip CLI is required but cou...
L871: Install manually from: https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/releases`)}}function z1(e){let t=[],n=[],i=e.languages.map((r,o)=>({language:r,scipPath:e.languages.length>1?yb(e.tempOut...
...
L876: `),()=>{try{N1(n)}finally{ho(e,{force:!0})}}}function Z1(e){try{let t=JSON.parse(ba(e,"utf-8"));return typeof t.pid!="number"||!Number.isInteger(t.pid)||t.pid<=0?null:{version:1,pi...
L877: `),go(n,e)}function kb(e,t){tr
```

### 13. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/dist/postinstall.js>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Install-time AI-agent control hijack evidence:
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import{c as g,d as k,e as m,f}from"./chunk-ONPCQ2PM.js";import{existsSync as p,mkdirSync as L,symlinkSync as v,readlinkSync as b,unlinkSync as q}from"fs";import{join as e,dirname a...
L3: ${i.installed.length} skill(s) installed, ${i.alreadyLinked.length} already linked.`),!g())console.log(`
Payload evidence from skills/scip-api-impact/agents/openai.yaml:
L1: interface:
L2: display_name: "SCIP API Impact"
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** scripts/evidence-product-contract.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/scripts/evidence-product-contract.mjs>)

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: scripts/evidence-product-contract.mjs spawns dist/cli.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
L3: import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
...
L16: const args = parseArgs(process.argv.slice(2));
L17: const projectRoot = process.cwd();
L18: const cliPath = resolve(projectRoot, 'dist/cli.js');
...
L30: const status = runCli(['status', '--json'], { profile: false });
L31: if (status.exitCode !== 0) {
L32: process.stderr.write(status.stderr.toString());
L33: process.exit(status.exitCode ?? 1);
...
L35: 
L36: const statusJson = JSON.parse(status.stdout.toString());
```

### 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 Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** vendor/scip/win32-arm64/scip.exe
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/scip-query@0.10.12/vendor/scip/win32-arm64/scip.exe>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = vendor/scip/win32-arm64/scip.exe
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 19709440
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.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 15
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 10
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 23

### Published dependency entries
- @bufbuild/protobuf ^2.11.0 (Dependency)
- @c4312/scip ^0.1.0 (Dependency)
- @vue/compiler-dom ^3.5.38 (Dependency)
- @vue/compiler-sfc ^3.5.38 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^12.9.0 (Dependency)
- commander ^13.1.0 (Dependency)
- ignore ^7.0.3 (Dependency)
- ts-morph ^28.0.0 (Dependency)
- @sourcegraph/scip-typescript ^0.4.0 (OptionalDependency)
- scip-python-plus ^0.7.4 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter 0.21.1 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-c 0.23.2 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-c-sharp 0.23.1 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-cpp 0.23.4 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-java 0.23.5 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-javascript 0.23.1 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-kotlin 0.3.8 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-php 0.23.12 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-python 0.23.4 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-ruby 0.23.1 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-rust 0.23.1 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-scala 0.24.0 (OptionalDependency)
- tree-sitter-typescript 0.23.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** scip-query
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.10.12
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-06-30T21:21:06.987Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-03T09:50:56.581Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-13T15:11:56.850Z
- **Known versions:** 10
- **Latest version:** 0.26.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Evidence and verification for AI coding agents: map code, reuse concepts, finish migrations, and gate diffs.
- **Keywords:** scip, code-intelligence, code-navigation, go-to-definition, find-references, dead-code, dependency-graph, sourcegraph, typescript, python, rust, java
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 292
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 42,357,052 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/scip-query>)