twist

maintainer edeustua · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the official project domain (twist.com), which is a standard practice for distributing Electron apps; the host is not whitelisted but is legitimate and expected for this software, and no code is built from untrusted sources.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the official project domain (twist.com), which is a standard practice for distributing Electron apps; the host is not whitelisted but is legitimate and expected for this software, and no code is built from untrusted sources.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:11 "https://downloads.twist.com/linux/Twist-${pkgver}.AppImage"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1#    Maintainer: J. Emiliano Deustua <edeustua@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=twist
    
      4pkgver=1.0.8
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Twist is an async messaging app that makes collaboration easy from anywhere by using threads to organize your conversations."
    
      7url="https://twist.com/"
    
      8arch=("x86_64")
    
      9license=("Private")
    
      10source=(
    
      11  "https://downloads.twist.com/linux/Twist-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      12)
    
      13sha256sums=(
    
      14  "03e9dd1bada5108b2c7ad17e53566c68b0ffd2328d08b5d34d0cc72c5795b3e9"
    
      15)
    
      16options=(
    
      17  "!strip"
    
      18  "libtool"
    
      19  "staticlibs"
    
      20)
    
      21
    
      22prepare() {
    
      23  echo "Building twist.desktop"
    
      24  chmod +x Twist-${pkgver}.AppImage
    
      25  ./Twist-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract
    
      26  cd squashfs-root
    
      27
    
      28  sed -i 's/AppRun/env APPDIR=\/opt\/twist \/opt\/twist\/AppRun/g' twist.desktop
    
      29}
    
      30            
    
      31package() {
    
      32  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/opt
    
      33  cp -r squashfs-root ${pkgdir}/opt/twist
    
      34  chmod -R u=rwX,go=rX ${pkgdir}/opt/twist
    
      35  install -D -m 644 squashfs-root/twist.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/twist.desktop
    
      36  install -D -m 644 squashfs-root/twist.png ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/twist.png
    
      37}
    
      38

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2