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AI Engineering Fluency

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Track your AI Engineering Fluency — daily and monthly token usage, cost estimates, and AI fluency insights in VS Code.

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

1 web service credentials found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

Overview issues5 vulnerabilities0 malware0 behaviors183 dependencies16 contributors1 versions117

Popularity

14.94k

Total Installs

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

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Problem

Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms expose programmable interfaces to their authenticated users. These web services enable action automation and secure exchange of information. For authorization, web service users provide a unique token that confirms their access rights. These tokens are considered secrets. They should never be included in a software release package, even if they are obfuscated by encryption on the client-side.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

3 packages

found in

Top 100

34 packages

found in

Top 1k

71 packages

found in

Top 10k

457 packages

in community

Next steps

You should securely store web service access tokens, and fully automate their management and periodic rotation.

If tokens were published unintentionally and the software has been made public, you should revoke exposed tokens and file a security incident.

Examples of service tokens that may have been detected include AWS, Facebook, JWT, SWT, Slack and others.

Problem

Software components are typically distributed in standardized packaging formats. Software packages are built from instructions written within package manifests that act as blueprints for package assembly. A package manifest declares the most important software properties, such as the package name, its authors and license, external dependencies, and various actions that may occur during the package lifecycle. Package managers are specialized tools used by developers to manage software components. Package managers read these manifests to deploy software components along with their dependencies. The premise of the package management system is that software components are isolated from each other, and that they rely on the package manager to provide their dependencies. However, it was detected that a software component includes code capable of accessing or modifying directories that are maintained exclusively by package managers. This is unusual as it resembles tactics used by threat actors that tamper with installed software components and inject malicious code into trusted execution paths.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1554 - Compromise Host Software Binary.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with sensitive parts of the runtime environment, often requiring privileged access to accomplish a task. Build pipeline configuration includes high-value information such as CI/CD platform secrets and tokens, pipeline definition files and runner configuration, build-time environment variables containing signing keys or deploy credentials, and artifact registry and package publishing credentials. That information is used by continuous integration and delivery systems. Attackers often abuse access to build pipeline configuration to harvest secrets from build environments, which can later be exfiltrated to attacker-controlled infrastructure and used to tamper with software releases or publish malicious artifacts under trusted identities. While the presence of code that accesses build pipeline configuration does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select software components should consider using functions that read build pipeline configuration. One example of acceptable use for such functions is release tooling that reads publishing credentials to push artifacts.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1072 - Software Deployment Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing service URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverage the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

622 packages

found in

Top 1k

4233 packages

found in

Top 10k

29.36k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. A port number is associated with a network address of a host, such as an IP address, and the type of network protocol used for communication. Within URLs, the ports are optional. Ports can be specified in a URL immediately following the domain name. Each network protocol, or schema, has a set of standard ports on which the service operates. This issue is raised when a mismatch between a network protocol and its expected port number is detected. While the presence of non-standard ports does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

560 packages

found in

Top 1k

2912 packages

found in

Top 10k

17.75k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider changing the port to one that is standard for the networking protocol.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for AI Engineering Fluency

What is AI Engineering Fluency?

Track your AI Engineering Fluency — daily and monthly token usage, cost estimates, and AI fluency insights in VS Code. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is AI Engineering Fluency malicious or is it safe to use?

The VS Code package AI Engineering Fluency was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is downloaded and used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details.

Is AI Engineering Fluency popular?

The VS Code package AI Engineering Fluency ranks among the top 10000 projects in this community. It has 15K recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure AI Engineering Fluency once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how AI Engineering Fluency behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a AI Engineering Fluency version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

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Popularity

14.94k

Total Installs

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

Top issues

See all issues

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

3 packages

found in

Top 100

34 packages

found in

Top 1k

71 packages

found in

Top 10k

457 packages

in community

Next steps

You should securely store web service access tokens, and fully automate their management and periodic rotation.

If tokens were published unintentionally and the software has been made public, you should revoke exposed tokens and file a security incident.

Examples of service tokens that may have been detected include AWS, Facebook, JWT, SWT, Slack and others.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1554 - Compromise Host Software Binary.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1072 - Software Deployment Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

622 packages

found in

Top 1k

4233 packages

found in

Top 10k

29.36k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. A port number is associated with a network address of a host, such as an IP address, and the type of network protocol used for communication. Within URLs, the ports are optional. Ports can be specified in a URL immediately following the domain name. Each network protocol, or schema, has a set of standard ports on which the service operates. This issue is raised when a mismatch between a network protocol and its expected port number is detected. While the presence of non-standard ports does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

560 packages

found in

Top 1k

2912 packages

found in

Top 10k

17.75k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider changing the port to one that is standard for the networking protocol.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

AI Engineering Fluency

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

Popularity

Top issues

SQ34304Detected presence of web service access tokens.Causes risk: web service credentials foundsecrets

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16129Detected presence of software components that can tamper with other installed software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16131Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive build pipeline configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17115Detected presence of files containing URLs that use non-standard ports.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from version control configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from infrastructure as code (IaC) provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from CI/CD configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from AI provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to version control configuration files.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Top vulnerabilities

FAQ for AI Engineering Fluency

What is AI Engineering Fluency?

Is AI Engineering Fluency malicious or is it safe to use?

Is AI Engineering Fluency popular?

How do I secure AI Engineering Fluency once it is in my app?

Did you know...

Popularity

Top issues

SQ34304Detected presence of web service access tokens.Causes risk: web service credentials foundsecrets

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16129Detected presence of software components that can tamper with other installed software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16131Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive build pipeline configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17115Detected presence of files containing URLs that use non-standard ports.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from version control configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from infrastructure as code (IaC) provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from CI/CD configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from AI provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to version control configuration files.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Top vulnerabilities