---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.6.md"
package: "silt-design-mode"
report_status: "published"
title: "silt-design-mode@0.1.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.6"
---

# silt-design-mode@0.1.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. A dependency changes instructions loaded by coding agents in the consumer project without an explicit user command.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.1.6
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. Installation silently mutates the consuming repository's AI-agent instruction surface. It adds an AGENTS.md block and may create Claude/Cursor/Codex agent skill files.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T08:53:08.769Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T08:54:43.072Z
- **Download time:** 253 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1588 ms
- **AI review time:** 92460 ms
- **Total time:** 94303 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation silently mutates the consuming repository's AI-agent instruction surface. It adds an AGENTS.md block and may create Claude/Cursor/Codex agent skill files.

- **Trigger:** npm install executes the postinstall hook.

- **Impact:** A dependency changes instructions loaded by coding agents in the consumer project without an explicit user command.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/postinstall.mjs, bin/skill-install.mjs, skill/AGENTS-BLOCK.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-24T08:54:43.072Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall-driven AI-agent configuration injection

- **Attack narrative:** On npm installation, the package uses INIT\_CWD to target the consumer project and calls installSkill. That function always splices or creates AGENTS.md, then writes agent-specific skill files for detected agent directories. If none are detected but ~/.claude exists, it creates Claude project skills anyway. These files are loaded as coding-agent instructions and are introduced without an explicit setup command.

- **Rationale:** The package performs unconsented postinstall mutation of a consumer repository's broad AI-agent control surface. Project and home-directory guards reduce scope but do not make this install-time behavior consensual.

- **Files touched:** AGENTS.md, .claude/skills/silt-design-mode/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/silt-setup/SKILL.md, .claude/skills/silt/SKILL.md, .claude/commands/silt-send.md, .cursor/rules/silt-design-mode.mdc, .agents/skills/silt-design-mode/SKILL.md

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall on installation., Postinstall invokes an installer against npm's consumer project directory., Installer unconditionally writes or splices project AGENTS.md and creates agent skill files., With no project agent marker, a global ~/.claude presence triggers creation of Claude project skills.

- **Evidence against:** Writes are limited to directories resembling projects and exclude the home directory., Existing skill files are normally left unchanged.

## 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@0.1.6/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@0.1.6/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: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.6/bin/cli.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L129: const { from, call } = VERBS[cmd];
L130: const mod = await import(from);
L131: try {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 7. High: Entrypoint Build Divergence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/silt-design-mode@0.1.6/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
L42: */
L43: import { execFileSync, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
L44: import { randomUUID } from 'node:crypto';
L45: import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, unlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
L46: import { createServer } from 'node:http';
L47: import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
...
L64: *  that port and fail if it is taken; a stated port is a decision, not a hint. */
L65: const EXPLICIT_PORT = process.env.DM_PORT ?? argOf('--port');
L66: const HOST = '127.0.0.1'; // loopback only — this must never listen on a network interface
...
L75: /**
L76: * THE ONE-SHOT VERBS, as data: which module holds each, and which function
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. 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@0.1.6/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:
L74: * a coin-flip bug. It was the test harness: the same prompt returns empty on ~1 of 3 runs
L75: * with the skills split, with the content in CLAUDE.md instead, and with no skill present
L76: * at all — so headless `-p` intermittently ends a turn with no text here regardless. The
...
L97: *
L98: * CLAUDE CODE ONLY, on purpose. `.claude/commands/<name>.md` is a project-scoped slash
L99: * command named by its filename. Cursor's and Codex's equivalents differ, and guessing a
...
L105: const COMMANDS = [
L106: { file: 'SEND-COMMAND.md', marker: '.claude', at: '.claude/commands/silt-send.md' },
L107: ];
...
L120: * sk[redacted] 53% (the skill was never invoked in 56% of cases), skills plus an
L121: * explicit instruction
```

### 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. 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.

### 13. 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
- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 3
- **Development dependencies:** 14
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @babel/parser ^8.0.4 (Dependency)
- magicast ^0.5.4 (Dependency)
- next \>=14 (PeerDependency)
- react \>=18 (PeerDependency)
- react-dom \>=18 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** silt-design-mode
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.6
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T08:47:35.359Z
- **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 in your source. Works standalone; Silt canvases are optional.
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.18.0 || \>=24.11.0
- **Artifact files:** 98
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 867,261 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/silt-design-mode/v/0.1.6>)
- [Homepage](<https://silt.app/>)