registry / AI-agent control-surface risk / visual-ai-editor
visual-ai-editor
AI-powered visual HTML editor with selection tools, design-system enforcement, and surgical source patching. Works with any OpenAI-compatible LLM provider, including local ones like Ollama.
This report shows the evidence for visual-ai-editor@1.6.6. 1 of 17 known versions is blocked or flagged. The newest version, 2.3.3, is flagged. See all versions.
AI Security Review
scanned 3mo ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe source confirms unconsented postinstall mutation of the consuming project's shared AI-agent instruction file. Under the firewall policy this concrete control-surface write requires blocking despite the payload being transparent and package-related.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
npm install of visual-ai-editor@1.6.6 with lifecycle scripts enabled.
Impact
Subsequent AI coding agents may consume package-authored instructions from the project's shared AGENTS.md.
Mechanism
postinstall writes a package-controlled AI-agent instruction file into the consumer project root.
Policy narrative
Installation executes scripts/postinstall.js, which resolves INIT_CWD or cwd as the consumer project and calls installAgentsMd. That function writes docs/AGENTS.md to the project root, appends its block to an existing AGENTS.md, or replaces a prior package block. AGENTS.md is a shared instruction surface for AI coding agents, so this is an unconsented install-time mutation of a foreign, broad AI-agent control surface.
AI rationale
The source confirms unconsented postinstall mutation of the consuming project's shared AI-agent instruction file. Under the firewall policy this concrete control-surface write requires blocking despite the payload being transparent and package-related.
Evidence
package.jsonscripts/postinstall.jslib/agents-md.jsdocs/AGENTS.md<consumer-project>/AGENTS.md
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI identified this as a dangerous AI-agent capability at 97.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for policy risk
- package.json runs scripts/postinstall.js on install.
- scripts/postinstall.js invokes installAgentsMd for the consumer project root.
- lib/agents-md.js creates, appends to, or replaces blocks in <projectRoot>/AGENTS.md.
- docs/AGENTS.md supplies instructions intended for any AI coding agent reading the consumer-root control file.
Evidence against
- The AGENTS.md payload is readable, delimited, and describes the package rather than hiding an exfiltration payload.
- No install-time network request, credential collection, shell execution, or binary loading was found.
- Provider network calls occur only when the user starts the editor and submits an edit.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
HighEntropyStringsMinifiedUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
5 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.js
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkgdemo/.envView file
1patternName = blocked_file
severity = critical
matchedText = demo/.env
redactedSecretContext =
secretLikeLines = 1
L1: AI_API_KEY=<redacted:56 token-like>
Critical
Findings
1 Critical3 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalCritical Secretdemo/.env
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighEntrypoint Build Divergenceserver/index.js
HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltabin/cli.js
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to visual-ai-editor@1.6.6.
The versions list below shows the verdict for each recorded version.
- Avoid installing visual-ai-editor@1.6.6. 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.
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Versions
17 known versions2.3.3latestSuspiciousAgent extension lifecycle riskWarnPublishedAug 11, 2026, 12:39 PM2.3.2SuspiciousAgent extension lifecycle riskWarnPublishedAug 5, 2026, 4:27 PM2.3.1SuspiciousAgent extension lifecycle riskWarnPublishedAug 5, 2026, 3:22 PM2.3.0SuspiciousAgent extension lifecycle riskWarnPublishedAug 5, 2026, 3:00 PM