---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sdd-flow-kit/v/1.7.42"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sdd-flow-kit/v/1.7.42.md"
package: "sdd-flow-kit"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.7.42"
---

# sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 20 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 1.7.42
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 20 finding(s) at 97.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-18T12:30:30.579Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-18T12:30:35.693Z
- **Download time:** 503 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4610 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 5114 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 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/core/agentRemediateInvoke.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/agentRemediateInvoke.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: exports.agentRemediateHint = agentRemediateHint;
L10: const child_process_1 = require("child_process");
L11: const path_1 = __importDefault(require("path"));
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/prdInventoryGate.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/prdInventoryGate.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: */
L23: const path_1 = __importDefault(require("path"));
L24: const apiFieldCoverage_1 = require("./apiFieldCoverage");
```

### 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. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/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 code directly mutates a foreign AI-agent control surface:
L66: return "cursor";
L67: if (await exists(".claude"))
L68: return "claude-code";
L69: if (await exists(".codex"))
L70: return "codex";
Write operation from dist/core/fs.js:
L26: await promises_1.default.mkdir(path_1.default.dirname(filePath), { recursive: true });
L27: await promises_1.default.writeFile(filePath, content, "utf8");
L28: }
Foreign user/project scope from dist/postinstall.js:
L66: return "cursor";
L67: if (await exists(".claude"))
L68: return "claude-code";
L69: if (await exists(".codex"))
L70: return "codex";
```

### 12. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/opsxDelivery.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/opsxDelivery.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L187: const openspecOk = hasCommand("openspec") ||
L188: (0, child_process_1.spawnSync)("npx", ["openspec", "--version"], { stdio: "ignore", cwd: root }).status === 0;
L189: checks.push({
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 14. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/install-git-hooks.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/scripts/install-git-hooks.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/install-git-hooks.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 790
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 15. 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.

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/playwrightEnsure.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/playwrightEnsure.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 = sdd-flow-kit@1.7.40
matchedPath = dist/core/playwrightEnsure.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2RkLWZsb3cta2l0:1.7.40
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/apiLiveProbe.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/apiLiveProbe.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 = sdd-flow-kit@1.7.40
matchedPath = dist/core/apiLiveProbe.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2RkLWZsb3cta2l0:1.7.40
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/devPort.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/devPort.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 = sdd-flow-kit@1.7.40
matchedPath = dist/core/devPort.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2RkLWZsb3cta2l0:1.7.40
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/validateReviewSubagent.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/validateReviewSubagent.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 = sdd-flow-kit@1.7.40
matchedPath = [redacted].js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2RkLWZsb3cta2l0:1.7.40
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/core/acSourceTrace.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/sdd-flow-kit@1.7.42/dist/core/acSourceTrace.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 = sdd-flow-kit@1.7.40
matchedPath = dist/core/acSourceTrace.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2RkLWZsb3cta2l0:1.7.40
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** sdd-flow-kit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.7.42
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-18T12:28:24.465Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T05:27:36.120Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T07:34:54.683Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 1.7.43
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Cross-agent SDD automated development workflow kit with PRD layered architecture, task splitting, context compression, and pending confirmations.
- **Maintainers:** lixin5257xxx
- **Keywords:** sdd, software-design-description, workflow, automation, ai-agent, cursor, claude-code, task-splitting, context-compression, subagent, openspec
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.16.0
- **Artifact files:** 271
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,546,853 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sdd-flow-kit/v/1.7.42>)