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Zen crashes at startup with Cannot find module node:async_hooks; upgrade to Node 16+

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What a coding agent needs to know about Aikido Security here: Zen crashes at startup with Cannot find module node:async_hooks; upgrade to Node 16+.

The node: module prefix requires Node 14.18+ (and Zen targets Node 16+). The reporter was on an old Node where node:async_hooks did not exist, so the firewall's context storage module failed at require time. Fix: run on Node 16 or newer (a maintainer verified node:16-alpine in Docker works). If you see Cannot find module 'node:...' from any instrumenting library, your Node is too old for the node: prefix, upgrade Node before debugging anything else.

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