Summary
elfmem v0.5.0 was classified as CRITICAL RISK with a risk score of 1143.5. Sigil detected 99 findings across 310 files, covering phases including provenance, network exfiltration, code patterns, obfuscation, install hooks. Review the findings below before installing this package.
Package description: Adaptive memory for LLM agents — adaptive decay, knowledge graph, zero infrastructure
v0.5.0
28 March 2026, 17:46 UTC
by Sigil Bot
Risk Score
1143.5
Findings
99
Files Scanned
310
Provenance
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install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
elfmem-0.5.0/site/search/search_index.json:1
{"config":{"lang":["en"],"separator":"[\\s\\-]+","pipeline":["stopWordFilter"],"fields":{"title":{"boost":1000.0},"text":{"boost":1.0},"tags":{"boost":1000000.0}}},"docs":[{"location":"","title":"elfmem","text":"<p>Adaptive memory for LLM agents. Knowledge that gets used survives. Knowledge that doesn't fades away. One file, zero infrastructure.</p>"},{"location":"#the-problem","title":"The problem","text":"<p>LLM agents are stateless by default. Every session starts from zero. Context windows fWhy was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
elfmem-0.5.0/site/search/search_index.json:1
{"config":{"lang":["en"],"separator":"[\\s\\-]+","pipeline":["stopWordFilter"],"fields":{"title":{"boost":1000.0},"text":{"boost":1.0},"tags":{"boost":1000000.0}}},"docs":[{"location":"","title":"elfmem","text":"<p>Adaptive memory for LLM agents. Knowledge that gets used survives. Knowledge that doesn't fades away. One file, zero infrastructure.</p>"},{"location":"#the-problem","title":"The problem","text":"<p>LLM agents are stateless by default. Every session starts from zero. Context windows fWhy was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
elfmem-0.5.0/site/search/search_index.json:1
{"config":{"lang":["en"],"separator":"[\\s\\-]+","pipeline":["stopWordFilter"],"fields":{"title":{"boost":1000.0},"text":{"boost":1.0},"tags":{"boost":1000000.0}}},"docs":[{"location":"","title":"elfmem","text":"<p>Adaptive memory for LLM agents. Knowledge that gets used survives. Knowledge that doesn't fades away. One file, zero infrastructure.</p>"},{"location":"#the-problem","title":"The problem","text":"<p>LLM agents are stateless by default. Every session starts from zero. Context windows fWhy was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
elfmem-0.5.0/site/search/search_index.json:1
{"config":{"lang":["en"],"separator":"[\\s\\-]+","pipeline":["stopWordFilter"],"fields":{"title":{"boost":1000.0},"text":{"boost":1.0},"tags":{"boost":1000000.0}}},"docs":[{"location":"","title":"elfmem","text":"<p>Adaptive memory for LLM agents. Knowledge that gets used survives. Knowledge that doesn't fades away. One file, zero infrastructure.</p>"},{"location":"#the-problem","title":"The problem","text":"<p>LLM agents are stateless by default. Every session starts from zero. Context windows fWhy was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
elfmem-0.5.0/src/elfmem/guide.py:391
"# Minimal: seeds 10 constitutional blocks only\n"
"elfmem_setup()\n"
"\n"Why was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
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