@indigoai-us/hq-cli@5.345.86
HQ by Indigo management CLI — modules and cloud sync
AI Security Review
scanned 12d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe automatically triggered daemon service installation establishes a concrete persistence risk and warrants a warning. The inspected agent-integration locations do not show a separate control-surface attack.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
Installing the package through npm runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
A background service may be installed and run without a separate explicit daemon-install command.
Mechanism
The hook invokes the CLI’s daemon installer with an if-stale option; absent daemon state counts as stale, and the installer writes a user service unit and can activate it.
AI rationale
The automatically triggered daemon service installation establishes a concrete persistence risk and warrants a warning. The inspected agent-integration locations do not show a separate control-surface attack.
Evidence
package.jsonscripts/mesh-daemon-if-stale.mjsdist/lib/mesh/live/daemon/install.js
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Suspicious at 88.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.
Evidence for warning
- The postinstall hook automatically invokes the package’s mesh-daemon installer.
- The hook runs the CLI with an if-stale option; a missing daemon state is treated as stale, and the installer can write and activate a per-user service.
- The inspected agent-related locations show session state writes, settings reads, policy-file filtering, and credential-file existence checks; they do not establish a separate attack.
Evidence against
- The daemon updater skips reinstalling when its recorded version is current and no node-path problem exists.
- The inspected agent enrollment source describes an explicit enrollment flow using a one-time code; no automatic enrollment is shown in the reviewed excerpt.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsMinifiedUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
16 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/mesh-daemon-if-stale.mjs || true
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/mesh-daemon-if-stale.mjs || true
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkgdist/startup-registration.jsView file
18*/
L19: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L20: import { stringDerivedPackageRoot } from "./utils/hq-roots.js";
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
dist/startup-registration.jsView on unpkg · L18Findings
9 High9 Medium6 Low
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighChild Processdist/startup-registration.js
HighShelldist/utils/staged-install.js
HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/commands/rescue.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighCommand Output Exfiltrationdist/commands/rescue.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighCloud Metadata Accessdist/lib/lanes/machine-identity.js
HighTrigger Reachable Persistencedist/lib/mesh/live/daemon/install.js
HighPayload In Excluded Dirassets/scaffold/.claude/hooks/validate-policy-frontmatter.sh
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/commands/agent-enroll.js#virtual:normalized:round1
MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json
Affected versions and remediation
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