---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/shakers-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/shakers-cli/report.md"
package: "shakers-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "shakers-cli@0.23.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.23.0"
---

# shakers-cli@0.23.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Telemetry warning (can be blocked)
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Telemetry
- **Selected version:** 0.23.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **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.

No malicious credential redirection or install-time behavior was identified. However, the default runtime audit sends hostname and OS username with command metadata when unauthenticated, which makes this undisclosed identifying telemetry suspicious.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T08:17:13.100Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T08:19:42.692Z
- **Download time:** 769 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9535 ms
- **AI review time:** 139287 ms
- **Total time:** 149592 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:** Default runtime command auditing sends identifying device details with command metadata when no valid Shakers session is present.

- **Trigger:** Ordinary CLI startup, unless SHAKERS\_CLI\_NO\_AUDIT=1 is set.

- **Impact:** The service can associate CLI activity with a local account name and machine hostname, even when the user has not signed in.

- **Evidence paths:** bin/shakers.js, bin/command-audit-worker.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T08:19:42.692Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** A detached worker posts the command, scrubbed arguments, CLI version and timestamp to the Shakers certifications service; without a valid session it adds the OS username and hostname.

- **Rationale:** No malicious credential redirection or install-time behavior was identified. However, the default runtime audit sends hostname and OS username with command metadata when unauthenticated, which makes this undisclosed identifying telemetry suspicious.

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.certifications.shakersworks.com/api/v1/cli/command-log

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for warning:** The CLI starts command auditing during ordinary startup; auditing is disabled only by setting SHAKERS\_CLI\_NO\_AUDIT=1., Audit records include the command, scrubbed arguments, CLI version and timestamp., When no valid session token is available, the record also includes the OS username and hostname., Records are posted to the package’s Shakers certifications service; shakers-cli maps to the production profile, whose base is https://api.certifications.shakersworks.com/api/v1., The manifest declares a CLI binary and no lifecycle scripts.

- **Evidence against:** The audit sends to the package’s own service, and authenticated requests use the user’s Shakers session token., The separate superadmin password flow requires running that command and prompts for the password; its endpoint derives from the configured ingest service., Audit arguments are scrubbed, and the code removes one-time login codes before logging.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to shakers-cli@0.23.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of shakers-cli@0.23.0 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.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/shakers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/shakers.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: "use strict";
L36: var import_child_process = require("child_process");
L37: function langFromLocaleString(raw) {
```

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/shakers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/shakers.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: var __hasOwnProp = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty;
L8: var __commonJS = (cb, mod) => function __require() {
L9: try {
```

### 3. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** bin/shakers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/shakers.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: "use strict";
L36: var import_child_process = require("child_process");
L37: function langFromLocaleString(raw) {
...
L52: function langFromAppleLanguages() {
L53: if (process.platform !== "darwin") return null;
L54: try {
...
L57: stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"]
L58: }).toString("utf8");
L59: const first = out.replace(/[()]/g, "").split(",")[0].replace(/["\s]/g, "");
...
L83: }
L84: function detectLangCode(env = process.env, sys = {}) {
L85: const appleLanguages = sys.appleLanguages || langFromAppleLanguages;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/shakers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/shakers.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17445: return {
L17446: linkedin: uniq((t.match(/(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:[a-z]{2,3}\.)?linkedin\.com\/in\/[A-Za-z0-9_%-]+/gi) || []).map((u) => `https://www.${u.replace(/^https?:\/\//i, "").replace(/^(?:[a-z]{...
L17447: github: uniq((t.match(/(?:https?:\/\/)?github\.com\/[A-Za-z0-9-]+/gi) || []).map((u) => `https://${u.replace(/^https?:\/\//i, "")}`)),
...
L17451: }
L17452: function readCvText(input, { platform = process.platform, exec = import_child_process.execFileSync, env = process.env, talentName = null } = {}) {
L17453: const file = (0, import_env_paths.expandHome)(input, env);
```

### 8. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/shakers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/shakers.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.
bin/shakers.js:
{ type: "projectPath", path: ".claude" },
{ type: "homePath", path: ".claude" },
{ type: "vscodeExt", prefix: "saoudrizwan.claude-dev" }
{ type: "homePath", path: ".codex" },
return env.CODEX_HOME || require("path").join(getHomeDir(env), ".codex");
function writeFilePreservingMode(dest, buf, mode, overwrite) {
if (writeFilePreservingMode(dest, buf, st.mode & 511, isConfig)) brought.push(name);
fs.writeFileSync(marker, `${(/* @__PURE__ */ new Date()).toISOString()}
```

### 9. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** bin/mcpb.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shakers-cli@0.23.0/bin/mcpb.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: bin/mcpb.js spawns bin/mcp.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L313: function createMcpServer(options = {}) {
L314: const server = (0, import_mcp_protocol.createMcpServer)({ log: (line) => process.stderr.write(`${line}
L315: `), ...options });
...
L328: try {
L329: msg = JSON.parse(trimmed);
L330: } catch {
...
L398: "/Volumes",
L399: "/private",
L400: "/dev",
...
L722: };
L723: var LEGAL_BASE_URL = "https://www.shakersworks.com";
L724: var TERMS_PREFIXES = { es: "", en: "en/", pt: "pt/", it: "it/" };
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- @livekit/rtc-node 0.13.35 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** shakers-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.23.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T08:14:38.697Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-15T13:39:22.996Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T08:19:42.692Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.23.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Shakers AI usage & skills evaluator: a local-first CLI (\`shakers\` binary) plus a local MCP server. Commands: ai-usage (scan + classify your AI-tool setup, T0-T7), certify (certify Skills from your code), share (branded LinkedIn card).
- **Maintainers:** shakers
- **Keywords:** shakers, cli, ai-usage, ai, developer-tools, skills, certification
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,422,192 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

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