diff --git a/review-enrichment/src/analyzers/install-scripts.ts b/review-enrichment/src/analyzers/install-scripts.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcc3d7b37b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/review-enrichment/src/analyzers/install-scripts.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+// Install-script & lifecycle-hook auditor (brainstorm #2). For each npm dependency a PR adds/upgrades, fetches the
+// registry packument and flags ones that ship preinstall/install/postinstall scripts — the #1 npm-malware execution
+// vector (a script runs on `npm install`, before any code review of the package's source). The shipped CVE scan
+// misses this entirely; the no-checkout reviewer can't fetch a packument. Public-safe output: package@version + the
+// hook names + publish date (NOT the script body, to keep the brief compact and non-executable).
+import type { EnrichRequest, InstallScriptFinding } from "../types.js";
+import { extractDependencyChanges } from "./dependency-scan.js";
+
+const INSTALL_HOOKS = ["preinstall", "install", "postinstall"];
+
+/** Analyzer entrypoint: changed npm deps → registry packument → only the versions that run install scripts. */
+export async function scanInstallScripts(
+  req: EnrichRequest,
+  fetchImpl: typeof fetch = fetch,
+): Promise<InstallScriptFinding[]> {
+  const findings: InstallScriptFinding[] = [];
+  for (const change of extractDependencyChanges(req.files ?? [])) {
+    if (change.ecosystem !== "npm") continue;
+    // Scoped packages (@scope/name) encode only the slash in the registry path; the @ stays literal.
+    const response = await fetchImpl(
+      `https://registry.npmjs.org/${change.package.replace("/", "%2F")}`,
+    );
+    if (!response.ok) continue;
+    const data = (await response.json()) as {
+      versions?: Record<string, { scripts?: Record<string, string> }>;
+      time?: Record<string, string>;
+    };
+    const scripts = data.versions?.[change.to]?.scripts ?? {};
+    const hooks = INSTALL_HOOKS.filter(
+      (hook) => typeof scripts[hook] === "string",
+    );
+    if (hooks.length) {
+      findings.push({
+        package: change.package,
+        version: change.to,
+        hooks,
+        publishedAt: data.time?.[change.to] ?? null,
+      });
+    }
+  }
+  return findings;
+}
diff --git a/review-enrichment/src/brief.ts b/review-enrichment/src/brief.ts
index 52cb0275d5..ec39f2bd7e 100644
--- a/review-enrichment/src/brief.ts
+++ b/review-enrichment/src/brief.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import type {
 import { scanDependencies } from "./analyzers/dependency-scan.js";
 import { scanSecrets } from "./analyzers/secret-scan.js";
 import { scanLicenses } from "./analyzers/license-check.js";
+import { scanInstallScripts } from "./analyzers/install-scripts.js";
 import { renderBrief } from "./render.js";
 
 type AnalyzerFn = (req: EnrichRequest) => Promise<unknown>;
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ const ANALYZERS: Record<keyof BriefFindings, AnalyzerFn> = {
   dependency: (req) => scanDependencies(req),
   secret: (req) => scanSecrets(req),
   license: (req) => scanLicenses(req),
+  installScript: (req) => scanInstallScripts(req),
 };
 
 function withTimeout<T>(promise: Promise<T>, ms: number): Promise<T> {
diff --git a/review-enrichment/src/render.ts b/review-enrichment/src/render.ts
index ca1ba1dccd..90682a6ca0 100644
--- a/review-enrichment/src/render.ts
+++ b/review-enrichment/src/render.ts
@@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ export function renderBrief(
     }
   }
 
+  const installScripts = findings.installScript ?? [];
+  if (installScripts.length) {
+    lines.push(
+      "### Dependency install scripts (supply-chain risk — review before merging)",
+    );
+    for (const dep of installScripts) {
+      const when = dep.publishedAt
+        ? ` (published ${dep.publishedAt.slice(0, 10)})`
+        : "";
+      lines.push(
+        `- \`${dep.package}@${dep.version}\` runs ${dep.hooks.join("/")} on install${when}`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
   if (!lines.length) return { promptSection: "", systemSuffix: "" };
 
   const header =
diff --git a/review-enrichment/src/types.ts b/review-enrichment/src/types.ts
index 6656bb30ab..9cad867382 100644
--- a/review-enrichment/src/types.ts
+++ b/review-enrichment/src/types.ts
@@ -59,11 +59,20 @@ export interface LicenseFinding {
   classification: "copyleft" | "unknown";
 }
 
+/** A newly-added/upgraded npm dependency version that runs install lifecycle scripts (supply-chain risk). */
+export interface InstallScriptFinding {
+  package: string;
+  version: string;
+  hooks: string[];
+  publishedAt: string | null;
+}
+
 /** Structured analyzer output. Each analyzer fills its own key; more land as analyzers ship (#1477/#1478). */
 export interface BriefFindings {
   dependency?: DependencyFinding[];
   secret?: SecretFinding[];
   license?: LicenseFinding[];
+  installScript?: InstallScriptFinding[];
 }
 
 export type AnalyzerStatus = "ok" | "degraded" | "skipped";
diff --git a/review-enrichment/test/enrichment.test.ts b/review-enrichment/test/enrichment.test.ts
index e15094faae..29587e951a 100644
--- a/review-enrichment/test/enrichment.test.ts
+++ b/review-enrichment/test/enrichment.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ import { renderBrief } from "../dist/render.js";
 import { buildBrief } from "../dist/brief.js";
 import { scanPatch, scanSecrets } from "../dist/analyzers/secret-scan.js";
 import { scanLicenses } from "../dist/analyzers/license-check.js";
+import { scanInstallScripts } from "../dist/analyzers/install-scripts.js";
+
+const npmFetch =
+  (scripts, time = {}) =>
+  async () => ({
+    ok: true,
+    json: async () => ({ versions: { "1.0.0": { scripts } }, time }),
+  });
 
 const licFetch =
   (licenses, ok = true) =>
@@ -317,3 +325,79 @@ test("buildBrief: license analyzer runs alongside the others", async () => {
     globalThis.fetch = realFetch;
   }
 });
+
+test("scanInstallScripts: flags npm deps with install hooks, skips clean + non-npm + non-ok", async () => {
+  const flagged = await scanInstallScripts(
+    pkgPatch("evil"),
+    npmFetch(
+      { postinstall: "node steal.js" },
+      { "1.0.0": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z" },
+    ),
+  );
+  assert.equal(flagged.length, 1);
+  assert.deepEqual(flagged[0].hooks, ["postinstall"]);
+  assert.equal(flagged[0].publishedAt, "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z");
+  const clean = await scanInstallScripts(
+    pkgPatch("good"),
+    npmFetch({ test: "jest" }),
+  );
+  assert.equal(clean.length, 0);
+  const py = await scanInstallScripts(
+    {
+      repoFullName: "o/r",
+      prNumber: 1,
+      files: [{ path: "requirements.txt", patch: "+evil==1.0.0" }],
+    },
+    npmFetch({ postinstall: "x" }),
+  );
+  assert.equal(py.length, 0);
+  const fail = await scanInstallScripts(pkgPatch("x"), async () => ({
+    ok: false,
+    json: async () => ({}),
+  }));
+  assert.equal(fail.length, 0);
+});
+
+test("renderBrief: renders the install-script block", () => {
+  const r = renderBrief({
+    installScript: [
+      {
+        package: "evil",
+        version: "1.0.0",
+        hooks: ["preinstall", "postinstall"],
+        publishedAt: "2026-06-01T00:00:00Z",
+      },
+    ],
+  });
+  assert.match(r.promptSection, /install scripts \(supply-chain risk/);
+  assert.match(
+    r.promptSection,
+    /`evil@1.0.0` runs preinstall\/postinstall on install \(published 2026-06-01\)/,
+  );
+});
+
+test("buildBrief: install-script analyzer runs alongside the others", async () => {
+  const realFetch = globalThis.fetch;
+  globalThis.fetch = async (url) => {
+    const u = String(url);
+    if (u.includes("registry.npmjs.org"))
+      return {
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({
+          versions: { "1.0.0": { scripts: { postinstall: "x" } } },
+          time: {},
+        }),
+      };
+    if (u.includes("deps.dev"))
+      return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ licenses: ["MIT"] }) };
+    return { ok: true, json: async () => ({ vulns: [] }) };
+  };
+  try {
+    const brief = await buildBrief(pkgPatch("evil"));
+    assert.equal(brief.analyzerStatus.installScript, "ok");
+    assert.equal(brief.findings.installScript.length, 1);
+    assert.match(brief.promptSection, /supply-chain risk/);
+  } finally {
+    globalThis.fetch = realFetch;
+  }
+});