---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/thalamus/v/1.5.59"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/thalamus/v/1.5.59.md"
package: "thalamus"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "thalamus@1.5.59 npm security report"
verdict: "manual_review"
version: "1.5.59"
---

# thalamus@1.5.59 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 26 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Manual Review
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** Unknown
- **Selected version:** 1.5.59
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **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: manual review; recommendation: manual review. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged agent-related source excerpts show Claude transcript and memory-setting inspection, not an agent configuration mutation. The postinstall hook extracts an opaque binary archive; because its contents cannot be verified and clean citation coverage is unavailable for that binary, the package requires manual review.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Manual Review
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 78.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T07:21:50.758Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T07:22:44.688Z
- **Download time:** 7169 ms
- **Static scan time:** 12759 ms
- **AI review time:** 34001 ms
- **Total time:** 53930 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:** No confirmed attack was identified in the inspected source. A postinstall hook extracts a bundled binary archive whose contents remain unverified.

- **Trigger:** Package installation triggers the postinstall script.

- **Impact:** The archive’s behavior cannot be determined from the inspected source, so malicious execution is neither established nor ruled out.

- **Evidence paths:** scripts/unpack-tools.cjs, tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T07:22:44.688Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The script extracts the platform-specific tools archive into tools/unpacked and sets executable permissions on extracted files.

- **Rationale:** The flagged agent-related source excerpts show Claude transcript and memory-setting inspection, not an agent configuration mutation. The postinstall hook extracts an opaque binary archive; because its contents cannot be verified and clean citation coverage is unavailable for that binary, the package requires manual review.

- **Files touched:** tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz, tools/unpacked

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Manual Review

- **Confidence:** 78.0%

- **Recommended action:** manual\_review

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **AI review observations:** The four flagged locations concern Claude project transcript paths or read Claude memory settings; the inspected excerpts show no agent configuration write., The manifest runs a postinstall script that unpacks bundled platform tools., The unpacker extracts an archive into tools/unpacked; the archive’s executable contents could not be assessed from source.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to thalamus@1.5.59.

- Review the evidence and your use of thalamus@1.5.59 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/unpack-tools.cjs
```

### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/thalamus-mcp.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/bin/thalamus-mcp.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: import { spawn } from 'child_process';
L4: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
```

### 5. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1756: 
L1757: const execAsync = util.promisify(child_process.exec);
L1758: const pathModule = path$1;
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/terminalBackend.pty-ubBkY1IC.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/terminalBackend.pty-ubBkY1IC.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: var node_fs = require('node:fs');
L4: var os = require('node:os');
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/index-dXSn2MXU.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index-dXSn2MXU.mjs>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import { randomUUID, randomBytes, createCipheriv, createHmac, createHash } from 'node:crypto';
L4: import { l as logger, c as configuration, b as canTreeKill, p as packageJson, d as projectPath, r as readSettings, e as readCredentials, f as [redacted]...
L5: import { spawn, execSync as execSync$1 } from 'child_process';
L6: import { constants, readFileSync, renameSync, linkSync, unlinkSync, statSync, readlinkSync, readdirSync, writeFileSync, existsSync, promises, mkdirSync, lstatSync, openSync, fstatS...
...
L10: import crossSpawn from 'cross-spawn';
L11: import axios from 'axios';
L12: import fs__default from 'fs/promises';
...
L473: }
L474: if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
L475: logger.debug("[caffeinate] Not on macOS, skipping caffeinate");
...
L951: return {
L952: PWD: process.
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs>)

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.
dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs:
var readline = require('node:readline');
rpcHandlerManager.registerHandler("writeFile", async (data) => {
await fs$1.writeFile(resolvedPath, buffer);
node_fs.writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(rollup.toState(Date.now())));
await fs$2.writeFile(tmpFile, JSON.stringify(updated, null, 2));
await fs$2.writeFile(configuration.privateKeyFile, JSON.stringify({
await fs$2.writeFile(configuration.privateKeyFile, JSON.stringify({
node_fs.writeFileSync(configuration.daemonStateFile, JSON.stringify(state, null, 2), "utf-8");
```

### 12. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: var axios = require('axios');
L4: var chalk = require('chalk');
...
L6: var node_fs = require('node:fs');
L7: var node_child_process = require('node:child_process');
L8: var os = require('node:os');
...
L150: "tools/licenses",
L151: "package.json"
L152: ];
...
L173: "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "1.17.3",
L174: "@stablelib/base64": "^2.0.1",
L175: "@stablelib/hex": "^2.0.1",
```

### 13. Critical: Encrypted Payload Temp Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs>)

Source decrypts an embedded payload, writes it to disk, and executes it through a child process.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
context = ] ?? 0;\n    if (va > vb) return 1;\n    if (va < vb) return -1;\n  }\n  return 0;\n}\nfunction isCacheUsable(cached, currentVersion, now) {\n  if (!cached) return false;\n  if (now - cached.checkedAt >= CACHE_TTL_MS) return false;\n  if (compareSemver(currentVersion, cached.latestVersion) > 0) return false;\n  return true;\n}\nfunction readCache() {\n  try {\n    const raw = node_fs.readFileSync(CACHE_FILE, "utf-8");\n    return JSON.parse(raw);\n  } catch {\n    return null;\n  }\n}\nfunction writeCache(cache) {\n  try {\n    node_fs.writeFileSync(CACHE_FILE, JSON.stringify(cache), "utf-8");\n  } catch {\n  }\n}\nasync function fetchLatestVersion() {\n  try {\n    const response = await axios.get(\n      `https://registry.npmjs.org/${NPM_PACKAGE_NAME}/latest`,\n      { timeout:
```

### 14. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs>)

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: dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs spawns dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L6: var api = require('./api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs');
L7: var child_process = require('child_process');
L8: var node_fs = require('node:fs');
...
L12: var crossSpawn = require('cross-spawn');
L13: var axios = require('axios');
L14: var fs$1 = require('fs/promises');
...
L66: try {
L67: const marker = JSON.parse(markerContent);
L68: if (Number.isFinite(marker.writtenAt) && now - marker.writtenAt <= DAEMON_RESTART_MARKER_FRESHNESS_MS && Array.isArray(marker.pids) && marker.pids.includes(pid)) {
...
L493: }
L494: if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
L495: api.logger.debug("[caffeinate] Not on macOS, skipping caffeinate");
```

### 15. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.cjs -> dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
Reachable file contains a blocking source-risk pattern.
```

### 16. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.main -> dist/index.cjs -> dist/index-CcNr7SWu.cjs
L6: var api = require('./api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs');
L7: var child_process = require('child_process');
L8: var node_fs = require('node:fs');
...
L12: var crossSpawn = require('cross-spawn');
L13: var axios = require('axios');
L14: var fs$1 = require('fs/promises');
...
L66: try {
L67: const marker = JSON.parse(markerContent);
L68: if (Number.isFinite(marker.writtenAt) && now - marker.writtenAt <= DAEMON_RESTART_MARKER_FRESHNESS_MS && Array.isArray(marker.pids) && marker.pids.includes(pid)) {
...
L493: }
L494: if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
L495: api.logger.debug("[caffeinate] Not on macOS, skipping caffeinate");
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 19. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 11425536
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 20. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = tools/archives/difftastic-arm64-linux.tar.gz
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 11425536
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 21. 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.

### 22. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/lib.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = claudeputer@1.1.41
matchedPath = dist/lib.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2xhdWRlcHV0ZXI:1.1.41
similarity = 0.875
shingleOverlap = 42
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

### 23. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/lib.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/lib.mjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = claudeputer@1.1.41
matchedPath = dist/lib.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2xhdWRlcHV0ZXI:1.1.41
similarity = 0.875
shingleOverlap = 35
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

### 24. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index.mjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = claudeputer@1.1.41
matchedPath = dist/index.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2xhdWRlcHV0ZXI:1.1.41
similarity = 0.775
shingleOverlap = 31
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

### 25. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/index.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = claudeputer@1.1.41
matchedPath = dist/index.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:Y2xhdWRlcHV0ZXI:1.1.41
similarity = 0.700
shingleOverlap = 28
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

### 26. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/thalamus@1.5.59/dist/api-Cq3V4oM0.cjs>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = thalamus@1.5.44
matchedIdentity = npm:dGhhbGFtdXM:1.5.44
similarity = 0.630
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 28
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 13
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 28

### Published dependency entries
- @anthropic-ai/sdk 0.65.0 (Dependency)
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.17.3 (Dependency)
- @stablelib/base64 ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- @stablelib/hex ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- @types/cross-spawn ^6.0.6 (Dependency)
- @types/ps-list ^6.2.1 (Dependency)
- @types/react ^19.1.9 (Dependency)
- @xterm/addon-serialize 0.13.0 (Dependency)
- @xterm/headless 5.5.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- chalk ^5.4.1 (Dependency)
- cross-spawn ^7.0.6 (Dependency)
- expo-server-sdk ^3.15.0 (Dependency)
- fastify ^5.5.0 (Dependency)
- fastify-type-provider-zod 4.0.2 (Dependency)
- ink ^6.1.0 (Dependency)
- libsodium-wrappers-sumo 0.8.4 (Dependency)
- node-pty ^1.1.0 (Dependency)
- open ^10.2.0 (Dependency)
- privacy-kit 0.0.25 (Dependency)
- ps-list ^8.1.1 (Dependency)
- react ^19.1.1 (Dependency)
- sharp ^0.34.5 (Dependency)
- socket.io-client ^4.8.1 (Dependency)
- tar ^7.4.3 (Dependency)
- tweetnacl ^1.0.3 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.9.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.8 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** thalamus
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.5.59
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-08T23:51:04.008Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-05T01:28:35.526Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-01T10:32:41.424Z
- **Known versions:** 63
- **Latest version:** 1.5.108
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Mobile and Web client for Claude Code
- **Author:** Jayce Rushton
- **Maintainers:** not\_jayce
- **Artifact files:** 51
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 104,140,556 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/thalamus/v/1.5.59>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/et-ai-labs/Thalamus-CLI>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/et-ai-labs/Thalamus-CLI/issues>)
