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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rajatpal96/tokentrail/v/1.0.13"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rajatpal96/tokentrail/v/1.0.13.md"
package: "@rajatpal96/tokentrail"
report_status: "published"
title: "@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.13"
---

# @rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Exposes agent reasoning snippets, tool metadata, project/session data, and supplied credentials to the package service.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.0.13
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Running the CLI starts persistent collection of local AI-agent transcripts and uploads derived content. Login also propagates credentials into agent/MCP configuration.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-24T09:03:45.951Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-24T09:05:54.755Z
- **Download time:** 759 ms
- **Static scan time:** 296 ms
- **AI review time:** 127748 ms
- **Total time:** 128804 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Running the CLI starts persistent collection of local AI-agent transcripts and uploads derived content. Login also propagates credentials into agent/MCP configuration.

- **Trigger:** Any tokentrail CLI invocation; login adds further agent configuration writes.

- **Impact:** Exposes agent reasoning snippets, tool metadata, project/session data, and supplied credentials to the package service.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, bin/tokentrail.js, src/hooks/index.ts

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-24T09:05:54.755Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** Detached transcript-harvesting daemon with remote event upload.

- **Attack narrative:** The manifest-exposed CLI starts a detached daemon before command handling. That daemon immediately scans, watches, and polls Claude transcript files, extracts thinking snippets and tool metadata, then batches them to the package-controlled TokenTrail endpoint. This collection occurs even for ordinary CLI use and persists after the invoking command ends. Login saves a supplied token and automatically propagates it into MCP and existing third-party agent configuration files.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete persistent collection and exfiltration of sensitive local AI-agent transcript content to a package-controlled endpoint, activated by normal CLI use without a separate opt-in collection action.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/projects/\*\*/\*.jsonl, ~/.tokentrail/daemon.pid, ~/.tokentrail/collector.db, ~/.gemini/config/mcp\_config.json, ~/.codex/config.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://api.tokentrail.xyz/v1/events/batch, https://api.tokentrail.xyz

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 97.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Every CLI invocation silently starts a detached daemon., Daemon watches and polls Claude project logs., It extracts agent thinking snippets and tool metadata., Collected records are POSTed to TokenTrail's default API., Login also auto-configures third-party agent/MCP settings.

- **Evidence against:** No npm install/postinstall lifecycle hook is present., The package labels this collection as observability and exposes explicit sync/connect commands.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokentrail.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13/bin/tokentrail.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L7: import http from 'http';
L8: import { exec, spawn } from 'child_process';
L9: import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package source references shell execution.

### 5. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 6. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 7. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokentrail.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13/bin/tokentrail.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L854: const port = server.address().port;
L855: const callbackUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/callback`;
L856: const dashboardUrl = process.env.TOKENTRAIL_DASHBOARD_URL || 'https://www.tokentrail.xyz';
L857: const authUrl = `${dashboardUrl}?cli_callback=${encodeURIComponent(callbackUrl)}&cli_state=${authState}`;
...
L863: const openCmd = process.platform === 'darwin' ? 'open' : process.platform === 'win32' ? 'start' : 'xdg-open';
L864: exec(`${openCmd} "${authUrl}"`, () => {});
L865:
```

### 9. Critical: Hardcoded Runtime Data Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokentrail.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13/bin/tokentrail.js>)

Source sends credentials or rich application records to a package-controlled external receiver enabled by default.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Source sends the broad process environment to a literal external destination.
L6: import readline from 'readline';
L7: import http from 'http';
L8: import { exec, spawn } from 'child_process';
L9: import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
L10: 
L11: const CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.tokentrail');
L12: const LEGACY_CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.agentpulse');
...
L31: const raw = fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf-8');
L32: existingConfig = JSON.parse(raw);
L33: backupPath = path.join(claudeDir, `config.backup.${Date.now()}.json`);
...
L37: 
L38: const endpoint = process.env.TOKENTRAIL_INGEST_URL || process.env.AGENTMETER_INGEST_URL || 'https://api.tokentrail.xyz/v1/events';
```

### 10. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokentrail.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13/bin/tokentrail.js>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
bin/tokentrail.js:
import readline from 'readline';
const claudeDir = path.join(this.homeDir, '.claude');
fs.writeFileSync(backupPath, raw);
fs.writeFileSync(configFile, JSON.stringify(updatedConfig, null, 2));
message: 'TokenTrail hook merged safely into ~/.claude/config.json',
fs.writeFileSync(configFile, JSON.stringify(config, null, 2));
const codexDir = path.join(this.homeDir, '.codex');
fs.writeFileSync(configFile, JSON.stringify(config, null, 2));
```

### 11. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** bin/tokentrail.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@rajatpal96/tokentrail@1.0.13/bin/tokentrail.js>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: import readline from 'readline';
L7: import http from 'http';
L8: import { exec, spawn } from 'child_process';
L9: import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
L10: 
L11: const CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.tokentrail');
L12: const LEGACY_CONFIG_DIR = path.join(os.homedir(), '.agentpulse');
...
L31: const raw = fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf-8');
L32: existingConfig = JSON.parse(raw);
L33: backupPath = path.join(claudeDir, `config.backup.${Date.now()}.json`);
...
L37: 
L38: const endpoint = process.env.TOKENTRAIL_INGEST_URL || process.env.AGENTMETER_INGEST_URL || 'https://api.tokentrail.xyz/v1/events';
```

### 12. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 13. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 14. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- better-sqlite3 ^9.6.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @rajatpal96/tokentrail
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.13
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T08:59:15.969Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-23T23:28:52.152Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-24T09:05:54.755Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.0.13
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** TokenTrail CLI - AI Coding Agent Usage & Observability Platform
- **Author:** TokenTrail Team
- **Keywords:** tokentrail, ai-observability, token-tracker, claude-code, copilot, gemini, antigravity, mcp
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 110,751 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@rajatpal96/tokentrail/v/1.0.13>)