---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenoptimiser/v/0.1.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenoptimiser/v/0.1.0.md"
package: "tokenoptimiser"
report_status: "published"
title: "tokenoptimiser@0.1.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.1.0"
---

# tokenoptimiser@0.1.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 13 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier
- **Selected version:** 0.1.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

npm postinstall fetches a remote executable/runtime payload, installs it under ~/.tokenoptimiser, and executes its installer. The shipped source then obscures the installed engine's original branding, leaving its behavior unavailable for source review.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T04:26:17.480Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T04:27:45.187Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 287 ms
- **AI review time:** 86910 ms
- **Total time:** 87707 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** npm postinstall fetches a remote executable/runtime payload, installs it under ~/.tokenoptimiser, and executes its installer. The shipped source then obscures the installed engine's original branding, leaving its behavior unavailable for source review.

- **Trigger:** npm install (postinstall); later explicit \`tokenoptimiser connect \<agent\>\` commands.

- **Impact:** An unreviewable native/Python engine is installed and can later proxy supported AI-agent sessions.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/envscrub.py, lib/runtime-manifest.json, bin/tokenoptimiser.js, lib/paths.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-11T04:27:45.187Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** verified remote wheel staging, installation, execution, and branding scrubbing

- **Rationale:** This is a deliberate install-time staged payload carrier with concealment behavior, but the inspected source does not establish a concrete malicious payload, exfiltration chain, or unconsented broad agent-control mutation. Warn rather than block.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/envscrub.py, lib/runtime-manifest.json, ~/.tokenoptimiser/bin/uv, ~/.tokenoptimiser/venv, ~/.tokenoptimiser/runtime.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.11.32/, https://pkg.tokenoptimiser.io/files/0.31.0-r2/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs scripts/postinstall.js automatically., scripts/postinstall.js downloads and installs a remote Python wheel during install., scripts/envscrub.py rewrites installed dependencies to hide and rename the upstream engine brand., bin/tokenoptimiser.js invokes the hidden engine and can route AI-agent sessions through it.

- **Evidence against:** Downloaded uv and wheel artifacts are HTTPS-only and SHA-256 pinned in lib/runtime-manifest.json., No source-confirmed credential harvesting, prompt/file exfiltration, eval, or shell-command injection was found., Agent configuration changes are initiated by explicit \`connect\` commands; Codex setup includes cleanup.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenoptimiser@0.1.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenoptimiser@0.1.0/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 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: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** lib/license.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenoptimiser@0.1.0/lib/license.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: const fs = require("fs");
L6: const http = require("http");
L7: const https = require("https");
...
L11: const { CONFIG, SAVINGS_EVENTS } = require("./paths");
L12: const { version } = require("../package.json");
L13: 
...
L24: const DEVICE_ID_RE = /^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._:-]{7,127}$/;
L25: const BASE64URL_RE = /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/;
L26: 
...
L64: function apiBaseUrl() {
L65: const raw = process.env.TOKENOPTIMISER_API_URL || DEFAULT_API;
L66: let url;
```

### 8. High: Install Named Payload File
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenoptimiser@0.1.0/scripts/postinstall.js>)

Install-named source file stages remote content through filesystem writes and execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: const fs = require("node:fs");
L6: const https = require("node:https");
L7: const path = require("node:path");
L8: const { pipeline } = require("node:stream/promises");
L9: const { spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L10: const paths = require("../lib/paths");
...
L13: 
L14: const PKG_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "..");
L15: const STATE_FILE = path.join(paths.HOME, "runtime.json");
...
L21: function log(message) {
L22: process.stdout.write(`[tokenoptimiser] ${message}\n`);
L23: }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/envscrub.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenoptimiser@0.1.0/scripts/envscrub.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = scripts/envscrub.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 4149
magicHex = [redacted]
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tokenoptimiser
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T21:51:29.532Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-11T04:27:28.352Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T04:53:20.745Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.1.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Cut your AI coding-agent token usage 60-90%. One command, no code changes.
- **Maintainers:** lucex
- **Keywords:** claude-code, cursor, tokens, llm, cost, proxy, compression
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 17
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 103,752 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenoptimiser/v/0.1.0>)
- [Homepage](<https://tokenoptimiser.io/>)