---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/warden-ai/v/0.7.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/warden-ai/v/0.7.0.md"
package: "warden-ai"
report_status: "published"
title: "warden-ai@0.7.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.7.0"
---

# warden-ai@0.7.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Persists Warden as an auto-approved tool across AI coding agents without user consent.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.7.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. On npm installation, the package silently invokes initialization in the consumer project. Initialization registers an MCP server, modifies broad third-party AI-agent configuration and rules files, and enables automatic approval for its tools.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-20T10:50:18.594Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-20T10:51:23.256Z
- **Download time:** 523 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3504 ms
- **AI review time:** 60634 ms
- **Total time:** 64662 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** On npm installation, the package silently invokes initialization in the consumer project. Initialization registers an MCP server, modifies broad third-party AI-agent configuration and rules files, and enables automatic approval for its tools.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall

- **Impact:** Persists Warden as an auto-approved tool across AI coding agents without user consent.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/postinstall.cjs, dist/cli.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-20T10:51:23.256Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** silent cross-agent MCP registration, rule injection, and approval-policy mutation

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package runs a hidden postinstall hook that executes \`warden init\` in the consumer’s current project. That initializer registers the package as an MCP server in numerous user and project AI-agent configurations, writes global instruction/rule files, and sets Warden tools to automatic approval in Codex and Cline. These changes affect foreign, broad agent control surfaces without an explicit user setup command.

- **Rationale:** The concrete install-time behavior is unconsented mutation of broad foreign AI-agent control surfaces, including auto-approval policy changes. This meets the blocking boundary even though no network exfiltration was identified.

- **Files touched:** bin/postinstall.cjs, dist/cli.js, $HOME/.claude.json, $HOME/.codex/config.toml, $HOME/.cursor/mcp.json, $HOME/.gemini/settings.json, .mcp.json, .cursor/mcp.json, .devin/config.json, .vscode/mcp.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs bin/postinstall.cjs on installation., postinstall silently executes \`warden init --skip-index\` in the installing project., init registers Warden across user and project AI-agent MCP configs., init enables automatic tool approval for Warden in Codex and Cline., init writes global rules into Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and other agent control files.

- **Evidence against:** No remote endpoint or credential-exfiltration path was found in inspected lifecycle and registration code., Malformed JSON configs are skipped rather than overwritten.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node bin/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/warden.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/bin/warden.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: // Compiled output not present — fall back to tsx for dev convenience.
L23: const { spawn } = await import("node:child_process");
L24: const src = resolve(here, "..", "src", "cli", "index.ts");
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** bin/warden.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/bin/warden.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L11: try {
L12: const mod = await import(pathToFileURL(cliPath).href);
L13: // dist/cli.js only auto-runs runCli() when it's the direct entry point.
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 11. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 72.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/dist/index.js>)

Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Cross-file remote execution chain: dist/index.js spawns dist/cli.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution.
L20: import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
L21: var getFilename, getDirname, __dirname;
L22: var init_esm_shims = __esm({
...
L612: init_guard();
L613: HEADER_RE = /^\s*(export\s+)?(async\s+)?(function|class|def|interface|type|enum|struct|impl|pub fn|fn|const|public|private|protected|static)\b.*$/;
L614: IMPORT_RE = /^\s*(import\s+|from\s+\S+\s+import\s+|export\s+.*\s+from\s+|use\s+\S+::|#include\s+|require\s*\()/;
...
L1949: function currentLevel() {
L1950: const env = (process.env.WARDEN_DEBUG ?? "").toLowerCase();
L1951: if (env === "1" || env === "true" || env === "debug") return LEVELS.debug;
...
L2040: try {
L2041: parsed = JSON.parse(trimmed);
L2042: } catc
```

### 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. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/bin/postinstall.cjs>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = warden-ai@0.6.1
matchedPath = bin/postinstall.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:d2FyZGVuLWFp:0.6.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/dist/cli.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = warden-ai@0.6.1
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:d2FyZGVuLWFp:0.6.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/dist/index.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = warden-ai@0.6.1
matchedPath = dist/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:d2FyZGVuLWFp:0.6.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** bin/warden.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/bin/warden.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = warden-ai@0.6.1
matchedPath = bin/warden.js
matchedIdentity = npm:d2FyZGVuLWFp:0.6.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/warden-ai@0.7.0/bin/postinstall.cjs>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 1da75682d90f2f56
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = warden-ai@0.6.1
matchedPath = bin/postinstall.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:d2FyZGVuLWFp:0.6.1
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 3
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 7
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 7
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 7

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk 1.29.0 (Dependency)
- @xenova/transformers 2.17.2 (Dependency)
- chalk 5.6.2 (Dependency)
- commander 15.0.0 (Dependency)
- tree-sitter-wasms ^0.1.13 (Dependency)
- web-tree-sitter ^0.22.6 (Dependency)
- zod 4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** warden-ai
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.7.0
- **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE
- **Version published:** 2026-08-20T08:50:09.043Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T10:23:36.984Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-20T10:51:23.256Z
- **Known versions:** 22
- **Latest version:** 0.7.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Verified context for AI coding agents. A local context layer that intelligently compresses, filters, indexes, and verifies AI coding-agent tool output. 32 MCP tools across 10 layers: code intelligence (tree-sitter, 30+ languages), context selection, tool
- **Author:** Rynaldo Stoltz
- **Keywords:** ai-agents, coding-agents, context, context-optimization, mcp, model-context-protocol, token-optimization, codebase-indexing, context-compression, agent-memory, semantic-search, trust-guard
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=22.5.0
- **Artifact files:** 128
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 3,719,603 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/warden-ai/v/0.7.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/rynald0cst0ltziam/Warden-AI.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/rynald0cst0ltziam/Warden-AI>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/rynald0cst0ltziam/Warden-AI/issues>)