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@telora/daemon@0.22.290

Agent orchestration daemon for Telora - spawns and manages Claude Code instances

AI Security Review

scanned 15d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The package provides an explicit setup command that writes agent and IDE configuration, a guarded capability that warrants a warning under the agent integration policy. The inspected lifecycle metadata and source do not establish an install-time attack or malicious behavior.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.

Trigger

An operator runs the telora-daemon connect command with a connect token.

Impact

The integration changes local agent and IDE configuration and enables those tools to use the Telora daemon.

Mechanism

The command provisions daemon configuration and registers Telora MCP settings and context for supported agent and IDE integrations.

AI rationale

Evidence

dist/cli/connect.jsdist/cli/connect/agents.jsdist/cli/connect/claude.jsdist/cli/connect/cline.jsdist/cli/connect/codex.jsdist/cli/connect/config-write.jsdist/cli/connect/gitignore-convergence.jsdist/cli/connect/ide.js

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 85.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The connect flow is an explicit CLI setup that registers the daemon and starts it.
The connector seeds Codex agent context in a file outside the repository root.
The Claude connector merges project settings and hooks.
Cline configuration uses credentials from the daemon’s Telora config.
Codex registers the Telora MCP server with the human profile.
Connect writes daemon configuration under the operator’s home directory.
The connector adds generated MCP configuration paths to .gitignore.
The IDE connector registers the Telora MCP server in project IDE configuration.

Evidence against

The only manifest lifecycle hook is prepublishOnly, which builds and stamps package metadata.
The inspected self-update install runs from the daemon’s update path; no automatic install-time agent configuration mutation was identified.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell

Source & flagged code

7 flagged

dist/update/self-update.jsView file

Lines 1-47javascript

1// PINNED-BY-BEGIN (generated by gen:pinned-by -- do not hand-edit; checked by lint:pinned-by)

2// Pinned by: packages/daemon/src/update/auto-update.test.ts,

3// packages/daemon/src/update/npx-run-guard.test.ts, packages/daemon/src/update/package-root-paths.test.ts,

4// packages/daemon/src/update/self-update.test.ts

5// PINNED-BY-END

6/**

7 * Self-update mechanism for the Telora daemon.

8 *

9 * Handles the full update lifecycle:

10 * 1. Detect installation mode (npm global, npx cache, or git source)

11 * 2. Dependency-ordered rebuild chain for git source mode

12 * 3. Pre-update snapshot for rollback

13 * 4. Update orchestration (stop engines, update, restart)

14 * 5. Version check and up-to-date detection

15 * 6. Migration auto-apply after update

16 *

17 * Three installation modes:

18 * - **npm**: Installed globally via `npm install -g @telora/daemon`.

19 * Updates via `npm install -g --@telora:registry=<channel> @telora/daemon@latest`

20 * (the update channel: npmjs unless TELORA_REGISTRY_URL overrides it).

21 * - **npx**: Running from an ephemeral npx cache (`~/.npm/_npx/<hash>/`).

22 * Self-update can't replace the running binary in place. The update path

23 * clears the npx cache and instructs the user to re-run via `npx`, which

24 * will then fetch the latest version. Auto-update is disabled.

25 * - **git**: Running from a git checkout (development mode).

26 * Updates via `git pull` + dependency-ordered rebuild.

27 */

28import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process';

29import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';

High

Runtime Package Install

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

dist/update/self-update.jsView on unpkg · L17

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/update/self-update.jsView on unpkg · L27

30import { dirname, resolve, join } from 'node:path';

31import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';

32import { checkForUpdates } from './version-check.js';

33import { resolveUpdateChannelUrl, scopedInstallArgs, scopedInstallCommand, } from '../config/update-channel.js';

34import { createLogger } from '../log/daemon-log.js';

35import { loadEnvConfig } from '@telora/daemon-core';

36const log = createLogger({ module: 'self-update' });

37// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

38// Installation mode detection (TEL-1)

39// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

40/**

41 * Detect whether the daemon is running from an npm global install,

42 * an ephemeral npx cache, or a git source checkout.

43 *

44 * Heuristics (in order):

45 * - Path contains `/_npx/` -> npx mode (ephemeral cache).

46 * - Source directory contains a `.git` directory (or a parent does) -> git mode.

47 * - Otherwise -> npm mode (global install, project node_modules, etc.).

dist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

248// --------------------------------------------------------------------------- L249: /** Spawn `sh -c command` in cwd and capture the FULL combined stdout+stderr and how it ended. */ L250: export function runShellCapture(command, cwd, timeoutMs) {

High

Shell

Package source references shell execution.

dist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg · L248

dist/completion/team-progress/team-progress-measure.jsView file

315* staged index entries (`git diff --cached --raw`: the index blob of each staged L316: * change), so a staged-only change moves it too. Content, not metadata: two L317: * different edits of the same size under the same mtime still move it. Reads

Low

Weak Crypto

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

dist/completion/team-progress/team-progress-measure.jsView on unpkg · L315

scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.shView file

•path = scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 774 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.shView on unpkg

dist/audit/audit-phase.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 37

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

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

dist/audit/audit-phase.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

package.jsonView file

•dependencies.@telora/mcp-products = ^0.22.169 previous = ^0.22.168 independentlyConfirmedMalicious = @telora/mcp-products@0.22.170 (lpm_ai_confirmed)

Critical

Known Malicious Dependency Insertion

A newly added or changed runtime dependency can resolve to an independently confirmed malicious package version.

package.jsonView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

7 flagged · loading source

dist/update/self-update.jsView file

27*/ L28: import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L29: import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/update/self-update.jsView on unpkg · L27

17* Three installation modes: L18: * - **npm**: Installed globally via `npm install -g @telora/daemon`. L19: * Updates via `npm install -g --@telora:registry=<channel> @telora/daemon@latest` ... L27: */ L28: import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L29: import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';

High

Runtime Package Install

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

dist/update/self-update.jsView on unpkg · L17

dist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

Findings

1 Critical4 High4 Medium6 Low

CriticalKnown Malicious Dependency Insertionpackage.json

HighChild Processdist/update/self-update.js

HighShelldist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighRuntime Package Installdist/update/self-update.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/audit/audit-phase.js#virtual:normalized:round1

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumShips Build Helperscripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh

MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review

LowNon Install Lifecycle Scripts

LowScripts Present

LowWeak Cryptodist/completion/team-progress/team-progress-measure.js

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @telora/daemon@0.22.290.

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Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

Evidence last updated: 2026-10-07 20:51:06.298Z (UTC).

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