---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.64"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.64.md"
package: "tracist"
report_status: "published"
title: "tracist@0.0.64 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.0.64"
---

# tracist@0.0.64 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:** 0.0.64
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Review flagged AI-agent configuration or capability changes. This remains warn-only unless evidence shows foreign-agent hijack through preinstall/install/postinstall, hidden persistence, exfiltration, remote code execution, or other concrete malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T20:04:06.755Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T20:05:23.143Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 752 ms
- **AI review time:** 75128 ms
- **Total time:** 76388 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** The explicitly invoked CLI scans local AI-agent transcript stores and streams their contents to Tracist. Its default daemon/streamer can also accept server-queued prompts and run local AI agents with elevated permission settings.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`tracist\`/\`tracist upload\`, or explicitly runs \`tracist install\` and leaves its daemon active.

- **Impact:** A compromised or malicious Tracist service/account could obtain transcript data and cause local agents to act in selected workspaces without normal Codex approvals.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T20:05:23.143Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Transcript exfiltration plus remotely queued AI-agent execution.

- **Rationale:** This is not malicious npm install behavior: there are no lifecycle hooks and daemon setup is an explicit command. However, the package provides a high-impact, remotely controlled agent-execution and transcript-upload capability that merits a warning.

- **Files touched:** ~/.codex/sessions, ~/.claude/projects, ~/.cursor/projects, ~/.config/tracist/credentials.json, ~/.local/share/tracist/runtime, ~/.local/state/tracist/transcript-streamer.json, ~/.config/systemd/user/tracist.service, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/dev.tracist.daemon.plist

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** \`scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js\` uploads discovered AI-agent transcript content to \`tracist.dev\`., Default streamer accepts server queue messages; \`--upload-only\` is the opt-out mode., Queued Codex sessions are resumed/created with \`sandbox: "danger-full-access"\` and \`approvalPolicy: "never"\`., Other queued agent invocations include permission-bypass flags., \`tracist install\` explicitly creates a persistent per-user daemon and copies a private runtime.

- **Evidence against:** \`package.json\` has no npm lifecycle scripts., Entrypoint actions occur only after an explicit CLI invocation; persistence requires \`tracist install\`., README discloses transcript upload, daemon installation, and queued-agent operation., \`tools/secret-redaction.js\` redacts known credential patterns before outbound transcript data.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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");
```

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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");
```

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 4. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 5. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. 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@0.0.64/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
L5058: try {
L5059: const zipairOrigin = String(process.env.ZIPAIR_ORIGIN || "http://127.0.0.1:1653").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L5060: const response = spawnSync("curl", [
L5061: "-fsS",
```

### 8. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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");
...
L72: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L73: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L74: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L212: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L213: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L214: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L248: }
L249: function listWorkingDirectory({ root, relativePath = "", home = os.homedir() }) {
```

### 9. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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");
...
L72: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L73: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L74: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L212: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L213: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L214: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L248: }
L249: function listWorkingDirectory({ root, relativePath = "", home = os.homedir() }) {
```

### 10. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/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:
```

### 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:** 95.0%

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

### 14. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.64/scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.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 = tracist@0.0.57
matchedIdentity = npm:dHJhY2lzdA:0.0.57
similarity = 0.800
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **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:** 0.0.64
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T18:44:18.740Z
- **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:** 569,723 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.64>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist>)
- [Homepage](<https://tracist.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist/issues>)