---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/virgil-cli"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/virgil-cli/report.md"
package: "virgil-cli"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "virgil-cli@0.1.8 npm security report"
verdict: "unknown"
version: "0.1.8"
---

# virgil-cli@0.1.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Unknown
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.1.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

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.

Static analysis completed at 93.0% confidence. No malicious behavior was detected; 16 low-signal pattern(s) were surfaced and cleared.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Unknown
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-07T23:30:58.744Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-07T23:30:59.866Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 601 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1122 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

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to virgil-cli@0.1.8.

- Review the evidence and your use of virgil-cli@0.1.8 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:** dist/tools/mutationFix.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/mutationFix.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import { join } from "node:path";
L7: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L8: import { resolvePath, errMessage } from "./util.js";
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools/mutationFix.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/mutationFix.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L123: return new Promise((resolve) => {
L124: const child = spawn(command, { cwd, shell: true, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"], detached: true });
L125: let out = "";
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools/bibRepair.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/bibRepair.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L264: * Measured 05.10.2026 on a file that itself contains regexes (judge.ts): opening the already-escaped
L265: * pattern dropped real metacharacters like `[^"]*` into it, the result was invalid, and the client threw\n * away 3 of 6 correct answers. The snippet is literal text, so escaping i...
L266: ? { body: { id: t.id, description: t.description, pattern: t.pattern, flags: t.flags, replacement: t.replacement, explanation: t.explanation } }
```

### 9. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools/bibRepair.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/bibRepair.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L264: * Measured 05.10.2026 on a file that itself contains regexes (judge.ts): opening the already-escaped
L265: * pattern dropped real metacharacters like `[^"]*` into it, the result was invalid, and the client threw\n * away 3 of 6 correct answers. The snippet is literal text, so escaping i...
L266: ? { body: { id: t.id, description: t.description, pattern: t.pattern, flags: t.flags, replacement: t.replacement, explanation: t.explanation } }
```

### 10. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/setup.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: // Das Modell spricht nur; gefunden und behoben wird im Code (siehe fixroute.ts). Darum reicht ein kleines.
L5: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L6: import { mkdir, chmod, rm, stat } from "node:fs/promises";
...
L15: const PORT = 8089;
L16: const ENDPOINT = "http://127.0.0.1:" + PORT + "/v1/chat/completions";
L17: const HOME = join(os.homedir(), ".virgil");
L18: const BIN_DIR = join(HOME, "bin", "llama-" + BUILD);
...
L27: const a = os.arch();
L28: if (process.platform === "darwin")
L29: return { name: "llama-" + BUILD + "-bin-macos-" + (a === "arm64" ? "arm64" : "x64") + ".tar.gz", tar: true };
...
L110: if (stopped) {
L111: await new Promise((res) => out.end(res)); // keep what we have for the next attempt
```

### 11. High: Trigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools/bibRepair.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/bibRepair.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches command-output exfiltration behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
Trigger-reachable command-output exfiltration chain: scripts.dev -> dist/index.js -> dist/tools/index.js -> dist/tools/bibRepair.js
L264: * Measured 05.10.2026 on a file that itself contains regexes (judge.ts): opening the already-escaped
L265: * pattern dropped real metacharacters like `[^"]*` into it, the result was invalid, and the client threw\n * away 3 of 6 correct answers. The snippet is literal text, so escaping i...
L266: ? { body: { id: t.id, description: t.description, pattern: t.pattern, flags: t.flags, replacement: t.replacement, explanation: t.explanation } }
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

### 15. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/tools/bibRepair.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/tools/bibRepair.js%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 = 1
```

### 16. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/coderoute.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/virgil-cli@0.1.8/dist/coderoute.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 = virgil-cli@0.1.2
matchedIdentity = npm:dmlyZ2lsLWNsaQ:0.1.2
similarity = 0.375
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:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 2
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- picocolors ^1.1.1 (Dependency)
- puppeteer-core ^25.12.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** virgil-cli
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.8
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T23:29:35.238Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-25T21:31:44.323Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T13:54:24.058Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.1.8
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Virgil in your terminal — an AI agent that does real work on your machine. No account, no store, one command.
- **Maintainers:** virgilbynm
- **Keywords:** ai, agent, cli, terminal, virgil, assistant
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 44
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 328,196 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/virgil-cli>)
