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@telora/daemon@0.22.42

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

AI Security Review

scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

This package exposes risky remote-agent and AI configuration capabilities, including disabled Claude permission checks. The actions are user-command initiated and there is no install-time execution or demonstrated theft, so the evidence supports a warning rather than a block.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

A user runs the connect command or operates the configured daemon.

Impact

A connected user grants the daemon authority to alter agent settings and run agents in the configured repository.

Mechanism

Explicit AI-agent provisioning, remote-request agent spawning, and global self-updating.

AI rationale

Evidence

dist/nexus/intake-spawn.jsdist/cli/connect.jsdist/cli/connect/config-write.jsdist/cli/connect/registration.jsdist/update/auto-update.jsrepoPath/.mcp.jsonrepoPath/.telora/daemon.json~/.claude/settings.json~/.codex/config.toml~/.codex/AGENTS.md

Network endpoints1

api.syntelyos.com

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 86.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The daemon launches Claude with permission checks disabled for accepted remote requests.
The explicit connect command can install and start a global copy of this package.
The connect flow merges tracking hooks into a user's Claude settings when a companion binary is present.
Runtime auto-update installs the latest package globally.

Evidence against

package.json has no preinstall, install, or postinstall hook and no dependency on itself.
The configuration writes and daemon start are reached through explicit CLI connect/setup behavior, not package installation.
No direct credential harvesting or unrelated data exfiltration was found in the inspected paths.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell

Supply chain

HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings

ManifestNo manifest risk signals triggered.

Source & flagged code

7 flagged

dist/update/self-update.jsView file

Lines 1-45javascript

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/npx-run-guard.test.ts,

3// packages/daemon/src/update/package-root-paths.test.ts, packages/daemon/src/update/self-update.test.ts

4// PINNED-BY-END

5/**

6 * Self-update mechanism for the Telora daemon.

7 *

8 * Handles the full update lifecycle:

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

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

11 * 3. Pre-update snapshot for rollback

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

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

14 * 6. Migration auto-apply after update

15 *

16 * Three installation modes:

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

18 * Updates via `npm install -g @telora/daemon@latest`.

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 */

26import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process';

27import { 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 · L16

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/update/self-update.jsView on unpkg · L25

28import { dirname, resolve, join } from 'node:path';

29import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';

30import { checkForUpdates } from './version-check.js';

31import { createLogger } from '../shell/log.js';

32import { loadEnvConfig } from '@telora/daemon-core';

33const log = createLogger({ module: 'self-update' });

34// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

35// Installation mode detection (TEL-1)

36// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

37/**

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

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

40 *

41 * Heuristics (in order):

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

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

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

45 *

dist/verify/verification-baseline.jsView file

Lines 96-136javascript

96 const failing = [...parseFailingTests(output)];

97 deps.writeCache(productId, baseSha, failing);

98 return new Set(failing);

99}

100// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

build-info.jsonView file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 18

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

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

build-info.jsonView on unpkg

dist/nexus/intake-spawn.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @telora/daemon@0.22.85 matchedIdentity = npm:QHRlbG9yYS9kYWVtb24:0.22.85 similarity = 0.883 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/nexus/intake-spawn.jsView on unpkg

package.jsonView file

•dependencies.@telora/mcp-products = ^0.22.135 previous = ^0.22.134 independentlyConfirmedMalicious = @telora/mcp-products@0.22.143 (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

25*/ L26: import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L27: 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 · L25

16* Three installation modes: L17: * - **npm**: Installed globally via `npm install -g @telora/daemon`. L18: * Updates via `npm install -g @telora/daemon@latest`. ... L25: */ L26: import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process'; L27: 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 · L16

dist/verify/verification-baseline.jsView file

116} L117: /** Spawn `sh -c command` in cwd and capture the FULL combined stdout+stderr. */ L118: function runShellCapture(command, cwd, timeoutMs) {

Findings

2 Critical4 High4 Medium5 Low

CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/nexus/intake-spawn.js

CriticalKnown Malicious Dependency Insertionpackage.json

HighChild Processdist/update/self-update.js

HighShelldist/verify/verification-baseline.js

HighRuntime Package Installdist/update/self-update.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limitedbuild-info.json

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

MediumShips Build Helperscripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh

MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review

LowNon Install Lifecycle Scripts

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

Low

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @telora/daemon@0.22.42.

See all versions of @telora/daemon for other recorded verdicts.

Review the evidence and your use of @telora/daemon@0.22.42 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

Evidence last updated: 2026-09-13 06:57:58.976Z (UTC).

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