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Windows App Development CLI and BuildTools utilities for Node.js native addon development

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MIT
License
Yes
Install Scripts
Missing
Provenance

Supply chain provenance

Status for the latest visible version.

No SLSA provenance npm registry signatures No source commit

Without SLSA provenance there is no cryptographic link between this tarball and the public source ā€” the axios compromise (March 2026) relied on exactly this gap.

Maintainers

microsoft1esmicrosoft-oss-releases

Keywords

windowssdkbuildtoolsnugetcppwinrtwindows-app-sdknative-addontypescript

Accepted risks

Findings the reviewer chose to accept rather than block on.

SourceRuleReasonAccepted byWhen
install-scripts install-script:postinstall AI (install-scripts): Postinstall only prints a welcome message; no network calls or code execution risk. ai
npm-metadata bundled-binaries AI (npm-metadata): libSkiaSharp.dll is a well-known Skia graphics library; expected for a Windows native addon development tool from Microsoft. ai

Versions (showing 1 of 1)

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0.3.1 0 / 8

v0.3.1

3 findings
HIGH Package has 'postinstall' script install-scripts

Script: node -e "console.log('\\nšŸŽ‰ Windows App Development CLI installed successfully!\\n\\nGet started with: npx winapp --help\\n')"

HIGH Bundled binary files (2) npm-metadata

Package contains compiled binaries that could be backdoors: ā€¢ bin/win-arm64/libSkiaSharp.dll ā€¢ bin/win-x64/libSkiaSharp.dll

LOW No provenance attestation provenance

Package was published without Sigstore provenance. Only ~12% of npm packages have provenance, so this is common but not ideal.