# Plugin review — ai-psychosis (2026-06-20)

> Full-depth review (part of the marketplace-wide sweep; pilot was okr). Tooling: config-audit
> v5.4.0 scanners (from source) + llm-security posture assessor + structure/version checks.
> Read-only; this file is the only artifact.

## Verdict

**Grade B — trustworthy mechanics, editorially self-interested.** No code-execution, no network
egress, no credential access; the central privacy claim ("prompt text never written to disk") is
real and test-enforced (canary + matched-phrase assertions across the hook lifecycle). The concerns
are **content governance**, not technical exfiltration.

## Results by dimension

| Dimension | Result |
|-----------|--------|
| config-audit posture | **A** (Feature Coverage F 36 — expected) |
| config-audit plugin-health | 2 findings: "CLAUDE.md missing commands/hooks section" — **legitimate** (ships 1 command + a hook). |
| llm-security posture | **B** — see findings. Zero npm deps; no `child_process`/`eval`/network anywhere; prompt variable explicitly cleared (`prompt-analyzer.mjs:290`). |
| structure / hygiene | README ✓, CHANGELOG ✓, CLAUDE.md ✓, LICENSE ✓ |
| version consistency | **OK** (gate) |

## Findings

| ID | Severity | Location | Finding |
|----|----------|----------|---------|
| F-1 | **Medium** | `commands/interaction-report.md:382-391` | Layer-4 instructs Claude to append a verbatim, change-prohibited paragraph promoting an external commercial wellness program (Sadhguru "Miracle of Mind"), auto-triggered when `total flags >= 5 OR fatigue >= 2` — i.e. gated on the user's inferred emotional state, in a plugin marketed as "observation, not intervention." Opt-in (`layer4:false` default) and README-disclosed, which lowers severity. **This is the item to make an explicit accept/reject call on.** Recommend: gate/remove the promotion, or at least strip the emotional-state trigger + the "do not modify" lock. |
| F-3 | Low (misinformation) | `README.md:544-552`, `SKILL.md:51-108` | Research citations presented as load-bearing authority that cannot be verified (future-dated arXiv IDs, an "April 2026 Anthropic guidance" quoted verbatim); the report command itself admits its "5-scale" is paraphrased, not a real Anthropic metric. **Recommend:** verify-or-remove. |
| F-2 | Low | `skills/ai-psychosis/SKILL.md:3-13` | "MANDATORY OVERRIDE … takes precedence over being helpful" auto-loads every conversation. Content is benign/pro-safety; flagged because the *structural pattern* (a skill claiming blanket precedence) is what a malicious skill would use. Governance note. |
| F-5 | Low (defense-in-depth) | `lib.mjs:233,59` | `session_id`/`cwd` interpolated into state-file paths without validation. Harness-supplied (not user-controlled) → not currently exploitable. Cheap fix: allowlist `^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$` before path use. |

`/interaction-report` reading JSONL into context (F-4) is currently safe — records hold only a
tool-name enum + domain labels, no free text. Noted only as a future sink.

## Decisions

### F-1 — accepted as-is (operator decision, 2026-08-02)

**Accept.** Layer 4 ships unchanged: the `flags >= 5 OR fatigue >= 2` trigger, the verbatim
paragraph, and the "do not modify" lock all remain as written.

Rationale: Layer 4 is opt-in and off by default (`layer4: false`), the reference and its
commercial nature are disclosed in `README.md:102-119`, and the paragraph is framed as the
author's personal pointer rather than a claim about the user. The two distinct concerns the
finding bundles — (A) inferred emotional state gating served content, and (B) a publicly
distributed plugin carrying a named commercial endorsement — are both acknowledged and accepted
as known, disclosed risk. No behavioural change, so no version bump; the plugin stays at v1.2.1.

Established while making the call, and not previously recorded in this review:

- **Layer 4 is enforced by prompt text only.** `requireLayer(4)` is never called. `lib.mjs:85-96`
  handles `n === 3` and `n === 4`, but the only call sites in the repo are `requireLayer(2)` in
  the four hook scripts. The `layer4: true` config gate, the flag trigger, and the "do not modify"
  instruction are all directives inside `commands/interaction-report.md` that Claude self-enforces
  at report time. This follows from Layers 3/4 being slash-command-driven rather than hook-driven,
  and it does not change the accept — but "opt-in, off by default" is an instruction, not a code
  guarantee.
- **Scope correction:** `skills/ai-psychosis/SKILL.md` is *not* part of the F-1 surface (zero
  matches for `sadhguru|miracle of mind|layer4`). The surface is `commands/interaction-report.md:372-394`,
  `README.md:102-119`, and `lib.mjs:52,81,89`.
- **No test coverage:** `tests/` contains no Layer 4 assertions — neither the paragraph nor its
  gate is verified by the suite.

Still open from this review: F-3 (verify-or-remove the research citations), F-2, F-5.