---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.4.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.4.4.md"
package: "tokenusage-cli"
report_status: "published"
title: "tokenusage-cli@0.4.4 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.4.4"
---

# tokenusage-cli@0.4.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 0.4.4
- **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 manifest has no install-time hook that runs package code, and the reviewed credential flow uses Anthropic’s own usage endpoint. Scheduled sync and integration setup are tied to the user-run init workflow, consistent with the package’s stated purpose.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T07:20:40.316Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T07:22:20.272Z
- **Download time:** 514 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6960 ms
- **AI review time:** 92481 ms
- **Total time:** 99956 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 identified; the observed credential and scheduling behavior supports the package’s usage-collection purpose.

- **Trigger:** User-run CLI commands; setup and schedule registration occur through init.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact identified in the inspected paths.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-04T07:22:20.272Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The package queries provider usage APIs and can register hourly sync and selected tool integrations during setup.

- **Rationale:** The manifest has no install-time hook that runs package code, and the reviewed credential flow uses Anthropic’s own usage endpoint. Scheduled sync and integration setup are tied to the user-run init workflow, consistent with the package’s stated purpose.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/.credentials.json, ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest describes a self-hosted AI coding token usage collector; its only lifecycle script is prepublishOnly, which runs tests., The CLI dispatches a command only after parsing user-supplied arguments; init asks for confirmation in interactive mode., Claude usage lookup sends the Claude OAuth token as a bearer token to api.anthropic.com, Anthropic’s own usage endpoint., The hourly sync schedule is registered during init and runs the package’s scheduled sync command.

- **Evidence against:** The package can register persistent scheduled tasks and write AI-tool configuration, but these capabilities are part of the user-run setup flow., The code reads provider credentials to retrieve usage information; the inspected Claude token flow sends its token to Anthropic’s own service.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to tokenusage-cli@0.4.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of tokenusage-cli@0.4.4 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. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokenusage.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.4.4/bin/tokenusage.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: // ExperimentalWarning out of redirected sync logs.
L6: require('../src/lib/quiet-warnings').[redacted]();
L7:
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/claude-categorizer.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.4.4/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) {
```

### 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. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/scheduled-task.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.4.4/src/lib/scheduled-task.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: //   Windows   Task Scheduler task "TokenUsageSync"  → wscript + hidden VBS runner
L7: //   macOS     LaunchAgent com.token-usage.sync      → /bin/sh launcher script
L8: //   Linux     systemd --user timer token-usage-sync → /bin/sh launcher script
...
L18: // Windows specifics: the action launches the VBS wrapper (GUI subsystem → no
L19: // conhost flash), which runs node fully hidden and propagates the exit code.
L20: // The task definition is registered from XML (not `-SC HOURLY`) so it can carry
...
L22: // resumes collection immediately) and RestartOnFailure (retry a crashed pass)
L23: // — those three are the reason the upstream CLI shelled out to PowerShell.
L24: //
L25: // Everything here is best-effort: a missing schtasks/launchctl/systemctl or an
L26: // access error must nev
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. 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@0.4.4/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 { clientrypath } = require("./scheduled-task");
const { runtimereadymarkerpath } = require("./runtime-entry");

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", "ope
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/scheduled-task.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.4.4/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
L6: //   Windows   Task Scheduler task "TokenUsageSync"  → wscript + hidden VBS runner
L7: //   macOS     LaunchAgent com.token-usage.sync      → /bin/sh launcher script
L8: //   Linux     systemd --user timer token-usage-sync → /bin/sh launcher script
...
L18: // Windows specifics: the action launches the VBS wrapper (GUI subsystem → no
L19: // conhost flash), which runs node fully hidden and propagates the exit code.
L20: // The task definition is registered from XML (not `-SC HOURLY`) so it can carry
...
L22: // resumes collection immediately) and RestartOnFailure (retry a crashed pass)
L23: // — those three are the reason the upstream CLI shelled out to PowerShell.
L24:
```

### 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:** 75.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 14. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** src/lib/qoder-limits.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tokenusage-cli@0.4.4/src/lib/qoder-limits.js>)

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 = tokenusage-cli@0.4.3
matchedIdentity = npm:dG9rZW51c2FnZS1jbGk:0.4.3
similarity = 0.877
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @journeyapps/wa-sqlite 2.0.10 (Dependency)
- smol-toml ^1.9.1 (Dependency)
- undici 8.12.3 (Dependency)
- yauzl ^3.4.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tokenusage-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-04T06:45:02.161Z
- **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 the Token Usage dashboard.
- **Author:** baiwumm
- **Maintainers:** baiwumm
- **Keywords:** token-usage, token, usage, claude, codex, self-hosted, ai
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.19.0
- **Artifact files:** 115
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,314,973 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tokenusage-cli/v/0.4.4>)
- [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>)
