---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.2.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.2.1.md"
package: "tokenusage-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "tokenusage-cli@0.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.2.1"
---

# tokenusage-cli@0.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.2.1
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged persistence and configuration changes are tied to the explicit init workflow, while the credential flow inspected sends Claude credentials to Anthropic for usage data. The manifest has no install hook, and the reported agent-configuration pointer is a local cache write.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-30T02:03:58.167Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-30T02:04:44.616Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7541 ms
- **AI review time:** 38647 ms
- **Total time:** 46449 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 attack was identified. The package collects token usage, configures integrations during explicit setup, and can schedule syncs through init.

- **Trigger:** User runs the CLI; integration setup and scheduled-task registration occur through init.

- **Impact:** Expected token-usage collection and local integration setup; no concrete malicious behavior found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-30T02:04:44.616Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Reads provider credentials to request usage data from their corresponding services and stores local configuration and cache files.

- **Rationale:** The flagged persistence and configuration changes are tied to the explicit init workflow, while the credential flow inspected sends Claude credentials to Anthropic for usage data. The manifest has no install hook, and the reported agent-configuration pointer is a local cache write.

- **Files touched:** ~/.tokenusage/cache/claude-categorizer/\*.json, tracker configuration and integration settings configured by init

- **Network endpoints:** api.anthropic.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest exposes a CLI and sets only a prepublishOnly test script; it declares no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook., The init command writes tracker configuration and sets up integrations as part of an explicit user command., On Windows, init can register an hourly sync task; the source documents the --no-task option and pause/resume controls., Claude usage code reads a Claude OAuth token and sends it as a bearer token to api.anthropic.com, the credential's own service., The categorizer writes a bounded local cache under ~/.tokenusage/cache/claude-categorizer/.

- **Evidence against:** The OpenClaw hook setup is a callable integration routine; the inspected CLI startup does not invoke it automatically., The scanner’s agent-configuration pointer resolves to a local categorizer cache write, not an AI-agent settings mutation.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to tokenusage-cli@0.2.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of tokenusage-cli@0.2.1 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/claude-categorizer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.2.1/src/lib/claude-categorizer.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L335: function defaultClaudeProjectsDir() {
L336: return path.join(os.homedir(), ".claude", "projects");
L337: }
...
L512: try {
L513: obj = JSON.parse(line);
L514: } catch (_e) {
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/scheduled-task.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.2.1/src/lib/scheduled-task.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: // on Interactive tasks), which runs `node <cli.js> sync` fully hidden and
L8: // propagates the exit code via WScript.Quit. The CLI logs to a rolling
L9: // <trackerDir>/logs/sync.log itself (autoLog sink), so the registration no
...
L15: //
L16: // Everything here is best-effort: a missing schtasks or an access error must
L17: // never fail init/pause/resume — the pause flag alone already stops syncs.
L18: 
L19: const { execFileSync } = require("node:child_process");
L20: const fs = require("node:fs");
...
L26: function isWindows() {
L27: return process.platform === "win32";
L28: }
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/openclaw-hook.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.2.1/src/lib/openclaw-hook.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
const os = require("node:os");
const path = require("node:path");
const fs = require("node:fs/promises");
const fssync = require("node:fs");
const { runopenclawcli } = require("./openclaw-cli");

const openclaw_hook_name = "tokenusage-openclaw-sync";
const openclaw_hook_dirname = "openclaw-hook";

function resolveopenclawhookpaths({ home = os.homedir(), trackerdir, env = process.env } = {}) {
  if (!trackerdir) throw new error("trackerdir is required");

  const openclawconfigpath =
    normalizestring(env.openclaw_config_path) || path.join(home, ".openclaw", "openclaw.json");

  const openclawhome =
    normalizestring(env.tokenusage_openclaw_home) ||
    normalizestring(env.op
```

### 9. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/scheduled-task.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.2.1/src/lib/scheduled-task.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.main -> src/cli.js -> src/commands/init.js -> src/lib/scheduled-task.js
L7: // on Interactive tasks), which runs `node <cli.js> sync` fully hidden and
L8: // propagates the exit code via WScript.Quit. The CLI logs to a rolling
L9: // <trackerDir>/logs/sync.log itself (autoLog sink), so the registration no
...
L15: //
L16: // Everything here is best-effort: a missing schtasks or an access error must
L17: // never fail init/pause/resume — the pause flag alone already stops syncs.
L18: 
L19: const { execFileSync } = require("node:child_process");
L20: const fs = require("node:fs");
...
L26: function isWindows() {
L27: return process.platform === "win32";
L28: }
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/qoder-limits.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.2.1/src/lib/qoder-limits.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 6
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 6

### Published dependency entries
- @journeyapps/wa-sqlite 2.0.7 (Dependency)
- @mongodb-js/zstd ^2.0.1 (Dependency)
- @sentry/node ^11.8.0 (Dependency)
- smol-toml ^1.9.0 (Dependency)
- undici 8.12.2 (Dependency)
- yauzl ^3.4.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tokenusage-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.2.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-28T01:36:50.470Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-27T01:49:23.918Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T15:07:32.923Z
- **Known versions:** 14
- **Latest version:** 0.4.5
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Self-hosted AI coding token usage collector for token-usage (forked from TokenTracker, MIT).
- **Author:** baiwumm
- **Maintainers:** baiwumm
- **Keywords:** token-usage, token, usage, claude, codex, self-hosted, ai
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 131
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,516,799 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.2.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/baiwumm/token-usage>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/baiwumm/token-usage/tree/main/packages/cli#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/baiwumm/token-usage/issues>)
