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@indigoai-us/hq-cli@5.345.156

HQ by Indigo management CLI — modules and cloud sync

AI Security Review

scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The source shows a first-party post-sync operation that changes global Codex instructions using synced agent content, with a default-on local opt-out. This is a guarded agent configuration capability that warrants a warning; the inspected authentication requests target Cognito, and the fast-scaffold match is a feature-flag membership check.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review

Trigger

A sync completes for an agent identity while HQ_AGENT_CODEX_MATERIALIZE is not set to exactly 0.

Impact

Synced agent content can influence later Codex runs on that machine; no confirmed attack was established.

Mechanism

The runner gathers synced agent profile and capability content and materializes it in the Codex home instructions file.

AI rationale

Evidence

.lpm-dependency-evidence-c19b0c5b-7595-4b03-8075-7ae8d0ebbb97/1/npm-linux/dist/bin/sync-runner.js.lpm-dependency-evidence-c19b0c5b-7595-4b03-8075-7ae8d0ebbb97/1/npm-linux/dist/agent-codex-instructions.js~/.codex/AGENTS.md

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 88.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

package.json declares the CLI entry points and a postinstall hook for installing its hook engine.
After sync, the cloud runner invokes Codex instruction materialization for agent identities when the local opt-out is not set to exactly 0.
The materializer gathers synced agent profile and capability content and writes it to the global Codex instructions file.
The inspected authentication code sends machine authentication requests to the Cognito service endpoint.
The flagged fast-scaffold operation resolves to a fixed set membership check for default-on feature flags.

Evidence against

The post-sync write is limited to agent identities, skips empty overlays, and can be disabled with HQ_AGENT_CODEX_MATERIALIZE=0. This leaves a default-on global instruction change, but the inspected source does not establish malicious content or an unconsented install-time mutation.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystem

Source & flagged code

29 flagged

package.jsonView file

Lines 25-65json

25 "scripts/install-hook-engine.mjs",

26 "scripts/hook-engine-manifest.mjs"

27 ],

28 "scripts": {

29 "build": "node scripts/generate-dsn.mjs && node scripts/build-flag-registry-worker.mjs && tsc && node scripts/generate-command-catalog.mjs --check && node scripts/copy-schemas.mjs && node scripts/chmod-bins.mjs && node scripts/bundle-sync-runner.mjs",

30 "prepublishOnly": "npm run build",

31 "pretypecheck": "node scripts/generate-dsn.mjs && node scripts/build-flag-registry-worker.mjs",

32 "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit && tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.typetest.json",

33 "gen:scan-golden": "node scripts/generate-scan-packages-table.mjs > src/utils/__fixtures__/scan-packages.generated-block.sh",

34 "gen:command-catalog": "tsc && node scripts/generate-command-catalog.mjs",

35 "lint": "eslint .",

36 "pretest": "node scripts/generate-dsn.mjs && node scripts/build-flag-registry-worker.mjs",

37 "test": "vitest run",

38 "gen:hq-mcp-tools": "node scripts/generate-hq-mcp-tools.mjs",

39 "test:db": "vitest run src/lib/db test/commands/db.test.ts test/commands/db-tenant-isolation.test.ts",

40 "test:e2e": "vitest run --config vitest.e2e.config.ts",

41 "coverage": "vitest run --coverage --coverage.reporter=text-summary --coverage.reporter=json-summary",

42 "check:lanes-module-cycles": "node scripts/check-lanes-module-cycles.mjs",

43 "vitest": "vitest",

44 "clean": "rm -rf dist",

45 "postinstall": "node scripts/install-hook-engine.mjs || node -e \"process.exit(0)\"",

Critical

Red Install Lifecycle Script

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

package.jsonView on unpkg · L45

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg · L45

46 "prepare": "husky || true",

47 "check:no-hermes": "bash scripts/check-no-hermes.sh",

48 "prepack": "node scripts/hook-engine-manifest.mjs",

49 "postpublish": "node scripts/hook-engine-manifest.mjs restore"

50 },

51 "dependencies": {

52 "@aws-sdk/client-iot-data-plane": "^3.1096.0",

53 "@aws-sdk/client-s3": "^3.1049.0",

54 "@aws-sdk/dsql-signer": "^3.1146.0",

55 "@indigoai-us/hq-cloud": "~6.18.91",

56 "@indigoai-us/hq-flags-client": "^0.1.2",

57 "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "1.29.0",

58 "@sentry/node": "^10.49.0",

59 "@tobilu/qmd": "2.5.3",

60 "ajv": "^8.20.0",

61 "better-sqlite3": "^12.11.1",

62 "chalk": "^5.3.0",

63 "commander": "^12.1.0",

64 "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",

65 "mqtt": "5.15.2",

dist/startup-registration.jsView file

Lines 1-38javascript

1/**

2 * The command-registration recovery seam for the "install tree torn out from

3 * under a starting `hq`" condition (Sentry HQ-CLI-1G/1H/1J/1K).

4 *

5 * `runCli` registers commands as its last step before `program.parseAsync()` —

6 * the lazy command import or `import("./register-all.js")` and everything those

7 * pull in. That is the ONE place a module-resolution failure is provably safe to

8 * recover from: it is inside hq-cli's own graph, it runs before `parseAsync` and

9 * before the preAction hook, so no command action, telemetry, or stdin read has

dist/utils/staged-install.jsView file

Lines 316-346javascript

316 if (result.status !== 0)

317 return null;

318 const lines = (result.stdout ?? "").trim().

dist/utils/update-command-supervisor.cjsView file

Lines 1-22javascript

1"use strict";

3const { spawn: nativeSpawn } = require("node:child_process");

4const fs = require("node:fs");

dist/lib/daemon/sync-runner.jsView file

Lines 1-22javascript

1/** Local status and resource controls shared by the daemon and its sync runner. */

2import * as crypto from "node:crypto";

3import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

4import * as fs

dist/lib/mesh/live/daemon/install.jsView file

Lines 1-27javascript

1/**

2 * User-level service install for hq mesh daemon.

3 *

4 * - macOS: LaunchAgent ai.getindigo.hq-mesh-daemon

5 * - Linux: systemd user unit hq-mesh-daemon.service

6 * (documented fallback: root-owned unit running as ec2-user)

7 * - Windows: per-user Scheduled Task ai.getindigo.hq-mesh-daemon registered

8 * from a rendered task XML via schtasks.exe (no native dependencies)

9 *

10 * The unit embeds the hq binary resolved at install time. Logs go to

dist/commands/core-job-probe-native.jsView file

Lines 109-149javascript

109export function hasProbeCommand(name, env, platform = process.platform, existsSync = (candidate) => { try {

110 return

dist/lib/capacity/collectors/claude-oauth.jsView file

6* or the credentials JSON under ~/.claude/ on Linux). GETs L7: * https://api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/usage with the oauth-2025-04-20 beta L8: * header. This module does not invoke the claude CLI except ... L31: */ L32: import { execFile, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L33: import * as crypto from "node:crypto"; ... L81: } L82: export function defaultClaudeCredentialsPath(home = os.homedir()) { L83: return path.join(home, ".claude", ".credentials.json"); ... L279: retryAfter = response.headers?.get("retry-after") ?? null; L280: text = status === 200 ? await response.text() : ""; L281: }

Critical

Credential Exfiltration

Source appears to send environment or credential material to an external endpoint.

dist/lib/capacity/collectors/claude-oauth.jsView on unpkg · L6

dist/lib/lanes/machine-identity.jsView file

11*/ L12: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L13: import * as os from "node:os"; L14: export const IMDS_HOST = "169.254.169.254"; L15: export const IMDS_TOKEN_URL = `http://${IMDS_HOST}/latest/api/token`; L16: export const IMDS_INSTANCE_ID_URL = `http://${IMDS_HOST}/latest/meta-data/instance-id`; ... L30: return null; L31: const body = (result.stdout ?? "").trim(); L32: return body.length > 0 ? body : null; ... L34: catch (err) { L35: process.stderr.write(`hq lanes: IMDS request failed for ${url}: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}\n`); L36: return null;

High

Cloud Metadata Access

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

dist/lib/lanes/machine-identity.jsView on unpkg · L11

assets/lanes-hooks/hq-lanes-drain.shView file

•path = assets/lanes-hooks/hq-lanes-drain.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 620 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

assets/lanes-hooks/hq-lanes-drain.shView on unpkg

assets/scaffold/.claude/hooks/validate-policy-frontmatter.shView file

•path = assets/scaffold/.claude/hooks/validate-policy-frontmatter.sh kind = payload_in_excluded_dir sizeBytes = 21475 magicHex = [redacted]

High

Payload In Excluded Dir

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

assets/scaffold/.claude/hooks/validate-policy-frontmatter.shView on unpkg

dist/hq-cloud-sync-runner/bin/sync-runner.jsView file

•path = dist/hq-cloud-sync-runner/bin/sync-runner.js kind = oversized_source_file sizeBytes = 6220500 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Oversized Source File

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

dist/hq-cloud-sync-runner/bin/sync-runner.jsView on unpkg

•path = dist/hq-cloud-sync-runner/bin/sync-runner.js kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint sizeBytes = 6220500 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Oversized Cli Entrypoint

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

dist/hq-cloud-sync-runner/bin/sync-runner.jsView on unpkg

assets/scaffold/core/scripts/lib/codex-output-schema.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 52

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

assets/scaffold/core/scripts/lib/codex-output-schema.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/lib/lanes/outpost-worktree-pruner.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @indigoai-us/hq-cli@5.345.145 matchedPath = dist/lib/lanes/outpost-worktree-pruner.js matchedIdentity = npm:QGluZGlnb2FpLXVzL2hxLWNsaQ:5.345.145 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High