---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.3.md"
package: "silt-design-mode"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "silt-design-mode@0.1.3 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.3"
---

# silt-design-mode@0.1.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 16 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:** 0.1.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 16 finding(s) at 86.0% 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:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-17T16:50:48.165Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-17T16:50:49.650Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 973 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1485 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/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.mjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.mjs
```

### 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:** bin/silt-binary.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/bin/silt-binary.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L20: */
L21: import { execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L22: import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1186: */
L1187: const child = spawn(command, { shell: true, cwd: repoRoot, stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
L1188: let out = '';
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. High: Entrypoint Build Divergence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/bin/cli.mjs>)

Manifest entrypoint contains risky behavior absent from dist/build output.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest entrypoint (manifest.bin) carries capability families absent from dist/build output: environment+network, sensitive-file+network, execution+network
L35: */
L36: import { execFileSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L37: import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
L38: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L39: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
...
L41: 
L42: const PORT = Number(process.env.DM_PORT ?? argOf('--port') ?? 4747);
L43: const HOST = '127.0.0.1'; // loopback only — this must never listen on a network interface
...
L80: }
L81: process.exit(process.exitCode ?? 0);
L82: }
...
L110: try {
```

### 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:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/bin/cli.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L35: */
L36: import { execFileSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L37: import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
L38: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L39: import { createRequire } from 'node:module';
...
L41: 
L42: const PORT = Number(process.env.DM_PORT ?? argOf('--port') ?? 4747);
L43: const HOST = '127.0.0.1'; // loopback only — this must never listen on a network interface
```

### 12. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** bin/skill-install.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.3/bin/skill-install.mjs>)

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:
L63: * a coin-flip bug. It was the test harness: the same prompt returns empty on ~1 of 3 runs
L64: * with the skills split, with the content in CLAUDE.md instead, and with no skill present
L65: * at all — so headless `-p` intermittently ends a turn with no text here regardless. The
...
L85: *
L86: * CLAUDE CODE ONLY, on purpose. `.claude/commands/<name>.md` is a project-scoped slash
L87: * command named by its filename. Cursor's and Codex's equivalents differ, and guessing a
...
L93: const COMMANDS = [
L94: { file: 'SEND-COMMAND.md', marker: '.claude', at: '.claude/commands/silt-send.md' },
L95: ];
...
L115: agent: 'Claude Code',
L116: marker: '.claude',
L117: // a directory per skill, named by the skill's own slug
Wri
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 3
- **Development dependencies:** 15
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/parser \>=7 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=18 (PeerDependency)
- react-dom \>=18 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** silt-design-mode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.3
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-17T13:36:26.656Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-17T16:50:49.650Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T08:54:43.072Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.1.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Point at any element in a running UI, say what should change, and an agent makes the change. Standalone npm package AND the in-Silt canvas tool. Spec: docs/silt-design-mode/ at the repo root.
- **Maintainers:** liepenieks
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 84
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 602,880 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.3>)
- [Homepage](<https://silt.app/>)
