---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.67"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.67.md"
package: "tracist"
report_status: "published"
title: "tracist@0.0.67 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.0.67"
---

# tracist@0.0.67 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:** 0.0.67
- **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:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-09T20:18:25.482Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-09T20:19:53.531Z
- **Download time:** 756 ms
- **Static scan time:** 783 ms
- **AI review time:** 86510 ms
- **Total time:** 88049 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A normal foreground stream connects to Tracist and, unless upload-only mode is selected, accepts queued prompts, filesystem requests, and file-save jobs. It can launch or steer local AI coding agents in session workspaces.

- **Trigger:** User runs \`npx tracist\` or \`tracist upload\`; persistence additionally requires \`tracist install\`.

- **Impact:** A compromised or abusive Tracist account/service can cause local AI agents to act on workspace content and retrieve or modify files in associated working directories.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-09T20:19:53.531Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Authenticated remote agent control plus workspace read/write and transcript upload

- **Rationale:** No install-time malicious chain is present, but the default runtime grants the remote service substantial AI-agent and workspace control. This is a dangerous capability warranting a warning rather than a publish block.

- **Files touched:** ~/.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/cli/auth/validate-socket

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** scripts/capture-resume-multiturn.js accepts server-queued prompts and dispatches them to local AI agents., The default streaming mode permits server filesystem list/search/read and queued file writes within a session working directory., bin/tracist.js can install a persistent user daemon, but only via explicit \`tracist install\`., Installed daemons automatically fetch \`tracist@latest\` and replace their private runtime.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no preinstall/install/postinstall hook; prepare only builds runtime files., README.md discloses transcript upload, queued agent work, and explicit daemon installation., Filesystem operations validate paths beneath the supplied working-directory root., Network defaults to the package-aligned tracist.dev service and uses authenticated tokens.

## 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@0.0.67/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@0.0.67/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@0.0.67/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"));
...
L35: const home = os.homedir();
L36: const configBase = process.env.TRACIST_CONFIG_DIR || (process.platform === "win32" ? process.env.APPDATA || path.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming") : process.platform === "darwin" ? ...
L37: 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@0.0.67/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
L5143: try {
L5144: const zipairOrigin = String(process.env.ZIPAIR_ORIGIN || "http://127.0.0.1:1653").replace(/\/+$/, "");
L5145: const response = spawnSync("curl", [
L5146: "-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@0.0.67/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");
...
L79: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L80: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L81: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L219: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L220: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L221: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L255: }
L256: 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@0.0.67/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");
...
L79: function transcriptImageDimensions(bytes, type) {
L80: const buffer = Buffer.isBuffer(bytes) ? bytes : Buffer.from(bytes || []);
L81: if (type === "image/png" && buffer.length >= 24 && buffer.subarray(1, 4).toString() === "PNG") {
...
L219: if (rootResult.status !== 0) return null;
L220: const repositoryRoot = String(rootResult.stdout || "").trim();
L221: if (!repositoryRoot) return null;
...
L255: }
L256: 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@0.0.67/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"));
...
L35: const home = os.homedir();
L36: const configBase = process.env.TRACIST_CONFIG_DIR || (process.platform === "win32" ? process.env.APPDATA || path.join(home, "AppData", "Roaming") : process.platform === "darwin" ? ...
L37:
```

### 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.

### 17. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** bin/tracist.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tracist@0.0.67/bin/tracist.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 = 0.733
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

## 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:** 0.0.67
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T20:05:51.291Z
- **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:** 600,429 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tracist/v/0.0.67>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist>)
- [Homepage](<https://tracist.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/antimatter15/tracist/issues>)