twist

LOW
maintainer edeustua 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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