---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/triflux"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/triflux/v/10.55.1.md"
package: "triflux"
report_status: "published"
title: "triflux@10.55.1 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "10.55.1"
---

# triflux@10.55.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. The package can alter agent behavior and configure commands to run in agent sessions.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 10.55.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The postinstall hook activates setup that changes agent configuration without obtaining consent, matching the install-time control-surface policy. The observed writes support blocking even though the configuration is for Triflux features.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T03:50:01.934Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T03:50:47.600Z
- **Download time:** 1798 ms
- **Static scan time:** 2883 ms
- **AI review time:** 40983 ms
- **Total time:** 45666 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:** Installation automatically runs setup code that changes Claude settings and can add Codex hooks. These writes affect AI-agent configuration without a postinstall consent prompt.

- **Trigger:** Installing triflux through npm, which runs its postinstall script.

- **Impact:** The package can alter agent behavior and configure commands to run in agent sessions.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, scripts/setup.mjs, scripts/ensure-codex-hooks.mjs

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T03:50:47.600Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The setup flow applies status-line, agent-team, and remote-control settings and persists changes; it also writes managed Codex hooks when that setup path reaches the hook installer.

- **Attack narrative:** During npm postinstall, the package runs setup without an interactive consent prompt. The setup flow modifies Claude settings and can write Codex hook configuration, establishing an install-time AI-agent control-surface mutation.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook activates setup that changes agent configuration without obtaining consent, matching the install-time control-surface policy. The observed writes support blocking even though the configuration is for Triflux features.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/settings.json, ~/.codex/hooks.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** package.json runs scripts/setup.mjs automatically on postinstall., The installed package invokes runDeferred during postinstall; its setup flow does not require an interactive terminal., runDeferred reads and changes Claude settings through applyStatusLine, applyAgentTeams, and applyRemoteControl, then persists changes., The setup path also invokes Codex hook setup, which writes hooks.json when its managed hooks change., The source therefore establishes unconsented install-time changes to AI-agent configuration.

- **Evidence against:** The setup functions use package-owned Triflux integrations, and Codex hook installation is separately consent-gated in the interactive setup flow.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to triflux@10.55.1.

- Avoid installing triflux@10.55.1. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/setup.mjs
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tfx-live.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/bin/tfx-live.mjs>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: #!/usr/bin/env node
L2: import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
L3: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/triflux.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/bin/triflux.mjs>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1375: 
L1376: // ── psmux 기본 셸 자동 수정 (cmd.exe → PowerShell) ──
L1377: if (process.platform === "win32" && which("psmux")) {
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/triflux.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/bin/triflux.mjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2735: findFsmonitorDaemons,
L2736: } = await import("../hub/lib/process-utils.mjs");
L2737: if (fix) {
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** scripts/lib/install-retire.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/lib/install-retire.mjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L49: try {
L50: return new Set(JSON.parse(readFileSync(HISTORY_FILE, "utf8")));
L51: } catch {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 9. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/setup.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L8: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
L9: import { execFileSync, spawn } from "child_process";
L10: import {
...
L55: const PLUGIN_ROOT = dirname(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)));
L56: // home 해석은 scripts/lib/machine-profile.mjs 가 정본이다. Windows 의 os.homedir()
L57: // 가 process.env.HOME swap 을 무시해 fixture 격리한 자식 프로세스가 실제 홈을
L58: // 건드리던 문제(#193 회귀)까지 그 모듈이 담고 있다.
...
L71: function commandAvailableOnPath(command, { env = process.env, platform } = {}) {
L72: const selectedPlatform = platform || process.platform;
L73: if (command.includes("/") || command.includes("\\")) {
...
L220: if (["n", "no", "0"].includes(answer)) return false;
L221: output.write("  y 또는 n으로 입력하세요.\n");
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. Critical: Ai Agent Control Hijack
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/setup.mjs>)

Source creates an unconsented AI-agent control surface through install-time mutation or a default unauthenticated remote skill channel.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: // triflux 설치 및 업데이트 설정 스크립트
L4: // - tfx-route.sh를 ~/.claude/scripts/에 동기화
L5: // - hud-qos-status.mjs를 ~/.claude/hud/에 동기화
L6: // - skills/를 ~/.claude/skills/에 동기화
L7: 
...
L11: chmodSync,
L12: copyFileSync,
L13: cpSync,
L14: existsSync,
L15: mkdirSync,
L16: readdirSync,
...
L22: unlinkSync,
```

### 12. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/mcp-check.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/mcp-check.mjs>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
, config));
      }
    }
  }

                                 
  for (const mcpjson of scanpluginsmcpjson()) {
    for (const { name, config } of extractmcpservernames(mcpjson)) {
      if (!servermap.has(name)) {
        servermap.set(name, createserverrecord(name, "configured", config));
      }
    }
  }

                                                                   
  for (const settingsfile of ["settings.json", "settings.local.json"]) {
    const data = readjsonsafe(join(claude_dir, settingsfile));
    if (!data?.mcpservers) continue;
    for (const [name, config] of object.entries(data.mcpservers)) {
      if (typeof name !== "string" || !name.trim()) continue;
      if (!servermap.has(n
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/ensure-codex-hooks.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/ensure-codex-hooks.mjs>)

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.
nction mergehooksstate(content, entries, hookspath) {
  const managedkeys = new set(entries.map((entry) => entry.key));
                                                                                            
                                                                                             
                            
  if (hooksstateconverged(content, entries, hookspath)) {
    return content;
  }
  return appendstateblocks(
    stripmanagedstatelines(content, managedkeys, hookspath),
    entries,
  );
}
```

### 14. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** scripts/setup.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/setup.mjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.postinstall -> scripts/setup.mjs
L8: import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
L9: import { execFileSync, spawn } from "child_process";
L10: import {
...
L55: const PLUGIN_ROOT = dirname(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)));
L56: // home 해석은 scripts/lib/machine-profile.mjs 가 정본이다. Windows 의 os.homedir()
L57: // 가 process.env.HOME swap 을 무시해 fixture 격리한 자식 프로세스가 실제 홈을
L58: // 건드리던 문제(#193 회귀)까지 그 모듈이 담고 있다.
...
L71: function commandAvailableOnPath(command, { env = process.env, platform } = {}) {
L72: const selectedPlatform = platform || process.platform;
L73: if (command.includes("/") || command.includes("\\")) {
...
L220: if (["n", "no", "0"].includes(answer)) return false;
L221: output.write("  y 또는 n으로 입력하세요.\n");
```

### 15. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** bin/triflux.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/bin/triflux.mjs>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1389: if (pwsh) {
L1390: execSync(`psmux set-option -g default-shell "${pwsh}"`, {
L1391: timeout: 3000,
...
L1403: const cliChecks = [
L1404: { name: "codex", install: "npm i -g @openai/codex" },
L1405: {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 18. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/lib/codex-recovery.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/scripts/lib/codex-recovery.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/lib/codex-recovery.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 3399
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 19. 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.

### 20. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** hub/team/headless.mjs\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/triflux@10.55.1/hub/team/headless.mjs%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 = 4
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- @iarna/toml ^2.2.5 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** triflux
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 10.55.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-09T03:47:30.578Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T05:41:17.557Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-23T02:14:13.445Z
- **Known versions:** 50
- **Latest version:** 10.82.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** CLI-first multi-model orchestrator for Claude Code — route tasks to Codex, Antigravity, and Claude
- **Author:** tellang
- **Keywords:** claude-code, plugin, codex, antigravity, cli-routing, orchestration, multi-model, triflux, tfx
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22
- **Artifact files:** 178
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,566,419 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/triflux/v/10.55.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/tellang/triflux.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/tellang/triflux#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/tellang/triflux/issues>)