---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.57"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.57.md"
package: "tracist"
report_status: "published"
title: "tracist@0.0.57 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.0.57"
---

# tracist@0.0.57 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as AI-agent capability risk** — Allowed by default with warning: agent-facing configuration or capability changes need review before use.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only AI-agent capability risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** AI-agent capability abuse
- **Selected version:** 0.0.57
- **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: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The source establishes a real remote AI-agent control capability with no per-prompt local confirmation, but it is activated through an explicit user command rather than an npm lifecycle hook. This warrants a warning rather than a publication block under the stated policy.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T11:49:11.076Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T11:50:23.345Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 686 ms
- **AI review time:** 71328 ms
- **Total time:** 72269 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:** An explicitly installed Tracist daemon maintains a WebSocket control channel to tracist.dev. Server-queued prompts can cause local AI agents, including Codex, to operate with unrestricted sandboxing and no approval.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`tracist install\` (or otherwise runs the streaming daemon) and authenticates.

- **Impact:** A compromised or abusive Tracist service/account could induce local file or command actions through the user's installed AI-agent tooling.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/tracist.js, scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js, tools/secret-redaction.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T11:50:23.345Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote queued-prompt dispatch into unrestricted local AI-agent sessions.

- **Rationale:** The source establishes a real remote AI-agent control capability with no per-prompt local confirmation, but it is activated through an explicit user command rather than an npm lifecycle hook. This warrants a warning rather than a publication block under the stated policy.

- **Files touched:** $HOME/.config/systemd/user/tracist.service, $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/dev.tracist.daemon.plist, $HOME/.local/share/tracist/runtime, $HOME/.local/state/tracist/transcript-streamer.json, $HOME/.local/state/tracist/queue-attachments/\<sessionId\>/\<messageId\>

- **Network endpoints:** https://tracist.dev, wss://tracist.dev/api/transcripts/machines/\<machineId\>/socket

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** \`scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js\` accepts server queue messages over an authenticated WebSocket., Queued messages are forwarded as prompts to local agent harnesses without a local approval step., \`WarmCodexHarness\` starts/resumes Codex with \`sandbox: "danger-full-access"\` and \`approvalPolicy: "never"\`., \`bin/tracist.js install\` explicitly creates a persistent user daemon that runs this streamer., Remote filesystem list/search/read requests are serviced for known local transcript sessions.

- **Evidence against:** No preinstall/install/postinstall hook; \`prepare\` only invokes esbuild., The CLI and README disclose transcript uploading and an explicit \`tracist install\` daemon command., Uploads use the package-aligned \`tracist.dev\` origin and bearer authentication., \`tools/secret-redaction.js\` redacts common credential patterns before transcript processing.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to tracist@0.0.57.

- Review the evidence and your use of tracist@0.0.57 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. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/bin/tracist.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: const readline = require("node:readline/promises");
L8: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L9: const WebSocket = require("ws");
```

### 4. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/bin/tracist.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: "use strict";
L3: const fs = require("node:fs");
L4: const crypto = require("node:crypto");
```

### 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:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/bin/tracist.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: const readline = require("node:readline/promises");
L8: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L9: const WebSocket = require("ws");
L10: const {
...
L19: const { formatCompactTimestamp: formatSessionActivityDate } = require("../shared/compact-timestamp.js");
L20: const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, "..");
L21: const pkg = require(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"));
L22: const uploader = require(path.join(packageRoot, "scripts", "capture-resume-multiturn.js"));
...
L45: const home = os.homedir();
L46: const configBase = process.env.TRACIST_CONFIG_DIR || (process.platform === "win32" ? process.env.APPDATA || path.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming") : process.platform === "darwin" ? ...
L47: const dataBase = process.env.TRACIST_DATA_DIR || (process.platform
```

### 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:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4894: try {
L4895: const zipairOrigin = String(process.env.ZIPAIR_ORIGIN || "http://127.0.0.1:1653").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L4896: const response = spawnSync("curl", [
L4897: "-fsS",
```

### 10. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const readline = require("node:readline");
L7: const net = require("node:net");
L8: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L9: const { inspectGitRepository } = require("../lib/git-repository.js");
...
L60: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L61: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L62: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L200: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L201: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L202: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L236: }
L237: function listWorkingDirectory({ root, relativePath = "", home = os.homedir() }) {
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const readline = require("node:readline");
L7: const net = require("node:net");
L8: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L9: const { inspectGitRepository } = require("../lib/git-repository.js");
...
L60: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L61: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L62: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L200: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L201: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L202: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L236: }
L237: function listWorkingDirectory({ root, relativePath = "", home = os.homedir() }) {
```

### 12. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.57/bin/tracist.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin/tracist.js
L7: const readline = require("node:readline/promises");
L8: const { spawn, spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L9: const WebSocket = require("ws");
L10: const {
...
L19: const { formatCompactTimestamp: formatSessionActivityDate } = require("../shared/compact-timestamp.js");
L20: const packageRoot = path.resolve(__dirname, "..");
L21: const pkg = require(path.join(packageRoot, "package.json"));
L22: const uploader = require(path.join(packageRoot, "scripts", "capture-resume-multiturn.js"));
...
L45: const home = os.homedir();
L46: const configBase = process.env.TRACIST_CONFIG_DIR || (process.platform === "win32" ? process.env.APPDATA || path.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming") : process.platform === "darwin" ? ...
L47:
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 15. 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.

### 16. 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:** prepare
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- ws ^8.21.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tracist
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.57
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T11:41:11.350Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T10:11:42.059Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-09T20:27:34.963Z
- **Known versions:** 31
- **Latest version:** 0.0.92
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Upload and continuously stream local AI coding transcripts to Tracist
- **Maintainers:** antimatter15
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 17
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 550,255 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.57>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist>)
- [Homepage](<https://tracist.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist/issues>)