---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/skalpel/v/4.0.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/skalpel/v/4.0.6.md"
package: "skalpel"
report_status: "published"
title: "skalpel@4.0.6 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "4.0.6"
---

# skalpel@4.0.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 14 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 4.0.6
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 14 finding(s) at 72.0% 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:** 72.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-12T21:50:05.830Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-12T21:50:06.223Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 140 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 393 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/skalpel@4.0.6/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.mjs || true
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/skalpel@4.0.6/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node postinstall.mjs || true
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** login.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/skalpel@4.0.6/login.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L11: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L12:
```

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

Package source references shell execution.

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** login.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/skalpel@4.0.6/login.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: // skalpel login — Sign in with Google, fully through AWS (no localhost).
L3: //   this CLI → browser → Google → https://graph.skalpel.ai/oauth/callback (AWS) → we poll AWS for
L4: //   the token → save it. The server holds the client secret and does the code exchange; we only ever
...
L10: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L11: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L12: 
L13: const API = process.env.SKALPEL_API || "https://graph.skalpel.ai";
L14: const CLIENT_ID =
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** login.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/skalpel@4.0.6/login.mjs>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: // skalpel login — Sign in with Google, fully through AWS (no localhost).
L3: //   this CLI → browser → Google → https://graph.skalpel.ai/oauth/callback (AWS) → we poll AWS for
L4: //   the token → save it. The server holds the client secret and does the code exchange; we only ever
...
L10: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
L11: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L12: 
L13: const API = process.env.SKALPEL_API || "https://graph.skalpel.ai";
L14: const CLIENT_ID =
...
L25: X = "\x1b[0m";
L26: const isTTY = process.stdout.isTTY && !process.env.CI;
L27: 
...
L44: return join(
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 13. 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.

### 14. 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:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** skalpel
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4.0.6
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-07-12T21:45:40.381Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-03T15:20:09.286Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-26T19:13:28.919Z
- **Known versions:** 39
- **Latest version:** 4.0.54
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Behavioral graph for AI-assisted coding — learns how you work and steers Claude Code + Codex in real time.
- **Maintainers:** skalpel-ai, raahilg6
- **Keywords:** claude-code, codex, ai, productivity, behavioral-analytics
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 17
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 162,122 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/skalpel/v/4.0.6>)
- [Homepage](<https://skalpel.ai/>)