---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/twzrd-x402-gate/v/0.5.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/twzrd-x402-gate/v/0.5.2.md"
package: "twzrd-x402-gate"
report_status: "published"
title: "twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.5.2"
---

# twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 10 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:** 0.5.2
- **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.

Source inspection shows a payment-safety library with user-invoked network and subprocess behavior aligned to its x402 trust-gate purpose, not install-time execution or covert data theft. The suspicious primitives are opt-in runtime/CLI paths with package-specific endpoints and no unconsented agent control-surface mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-10T08:18:33.818Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-10T08:19:35.032Z
- **Download time:** 253 ms
- **Static scan time:** 83 ms
- **AI review time:** 60877 ms
- **Total time:** 61214 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 confirmed malicious attack surface was established. Runtime behavior is an explicit x402 payment trust gate/CLI that calls package-aligned TWZRD endpoints and may invoke AgentCash only when the user runs the CLI.

- **Trigger:** User imports wrappers/hooks or runs twzrd-safe-fetch CLI

- **Impact:** Blocks or allows user-initiated x402 payments based on TWZRD policy; no exfiltration or persistence identified

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/twzrd-safe-fetch.js, dist/safe-fetch.js, dist/config.js, dist/policy.js, dist/merchant-card.js, dist/evaluate.js, dist/with-guard.js, dist/wrap-fetch.js, dist/mcp-hook.js, dist/x402-client-hook.js, dist/auto-gate.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-10T08:19:35.032Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** x402 payment preflight and optional paid trust check

- **Rationale:** Source inspection shows a payment-safety library with user-invoked network and subprocess behavior aligned to its x402 trust-gate purpose, not install-time execution or covert data theft. The suspicious primitives are opt-in runtime/CLI paths with package-specific endpoints and no unconsented agent control-surface mutation.

- **Network endpoints:** https://intel.twzrd.xyz, https://intel.twzrd.xyz/v1/intel/preflight, https://intel.twzrd.xyz/v1/intel/merchant\_card/{wallet}, https://intel.twzrd.xyz/v1/intel/quick/{sellerWallet}, https://intel.twzrd.xyz/v1/intel/trust/{payTo}

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** bin/twzrd-safe-fetch.js uses child\_process spawnSync only as a dev fallback when dist is absent, dist/safe-fetch.js can spawn npx agentcash@latest fetch after explicit CLI invocation and TWZRD approval, dist/evaluate.js optionally calls paid TWZRD quick/trust endpoints when caller supplies x402Fetch and opts in

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no install/preinstall/postinstall hooks; only prepublishOnly build hook, dist/config.js defaults network calls to package-aligned https://intel.twzrd.xyz and env overrides are TWZRD-specific, dist/policy.js posts payment metadata to /v1/intel/preflight for trust gating; no credential/env/file harvesting found, dist/with-guard.js, dist/wrap-fetch.js, dist/mcp-hook.js, and dist/x402-client-hook.js gate x402 payments before signing instead of mutating agent config, No file writes, persistence, broad AI-agent control-surface mutation, eval/vm, or native/binary loading found

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2.

- Review the evidence and your use of twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2 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/twzrd-safe-fetch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2/bin/twzrd-safe-fetch.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L16: if (existsSync(dist)) {
L17: await import(pathToFileURL(dist).href);
L18: } else if (existsSync(src)) {
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. 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.

### 10. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/safe-fetch.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.2/dist/safe-fetch.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 = twzrd-x402-gate@0.5.0
matchedIdentity = npm:dHd6cmQteDQwMi1nYXRl:0.5.0
similarity = 0.462
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:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 8
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @scure/base \>=1.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @solana/kit \>=5.1.0 (PeerDependency)
- @x402/core \>=2.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @x402/fetch \>=2.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- @x402/svm \>=2.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** twzrd-x402-gate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.5.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-10T08:16:33.592Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T04:30:20.907Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T23:44:24.546Z
- **Known versions:** 41
- **Latest version:** 0.16.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Buyer-side x402 trust gate. Run a free TWZRD preflight (ReadinessCard) before signing USDC to any x402 merchant, and autonomously escalate a \`warn\` to a $0.001 paid trust check that re-decides — blocking the spend on bad paid intel, no human in the loop.
- **Deprecated:** Security fixes: payment-verdict integrity issues fixed through 0.11.4 (see the 0.11.2, 0.11.3 and 0.11.4 changelogs). Upgrade to twzrd-x402-gate@0.11.4.
- **Maintainers:** twzrd1111
- **Keywords:** x402, twzrd, preflight, trust, readiness-card, solana, usdc, clawrouter, blockrun, agent, mcp
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 71
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 195,289 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/twzrd-x402-gate/v/0.5.2>)
- [Homepage](<https://intel.twzrd.xyz/>)
