---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@telora/daemon"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@telora/daemon/v/0.24.29.md"
package: "@telora/daemon"
report_status: "published"
title: "@telora/daemon@0.24.29 npm security report"
verdict: "policy_finding"
version: "0.24.29"
---

# @telora/daemon@0.24.29 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Claude Code automatically invokes the added commands during prompt and tool events.

- **Verdict:** AI-agent control-surface policy finding
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn by default; block when configured
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 0.24.29
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This finding concerns changes to an AI agent's instructions or configuration without explicit user action. It does not by itself establish malware intent. The CLI warns by default and blocks when configured for this policy.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The dependency's automatic postinstall mutates global Claude Code hook configuration without user consent. This meets the policy for blocking unconsented lifecycle mutation of an AI-agent control surface.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-21T13:56:36.920Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-21T13:57:45.855Z
- **Download time:** 2558 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6165 ms
- **AI review time:** 60211 ms
- **Total time:** 68935 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A dependency's automatic install hook changes global Claude Code settings and registers Telora commands for prompt submission and tool use.

- **Trigger:** Installing the package when both Telora hook binaries are on PATH.

- **Impact:** Claude Code automatically invokes the added commands during prompt and tool events.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-85837d12-38e3-4a17-b571-05db037eee5b/2/npm-linux/package.json, .lpm-dependency-evidence-85837d12-38e3-4a17-b571-05db037eee5b/2/npm-linux/scripts/postinstall.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-21T13:57:45.855Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The dependency postinstall adds commands to the global Claude Code hook arrays and writes the settings file without asking for consent.

- **Attack narrative:** Installing this package can run its declared dependency's postinstall automatically. When both Telora hook binaries are available on PATH, that script updates global Claude Code settings and registers commands for prompt and tool events without an affirmative consent step. This is an unconsented change to an agent control surface.

- **Rationale:** The dependency's automatic postinstall mutates global Claude Code hook configuration without user consent. This meets the policy for blocking unconsented lifecycle mutation of an AI-agent control surface.

- **Files touched:** ~/.claude/settings.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for policy risk:** The package declares @telora/mcp-products as a runtime dependency, and that dependency runs a postinstall script., The postinstall script adds hook commands to global Claude Code settings when both Telora hook binaries are on PATH; it has no consent prompt., The script adds hooks for PostToolUse and UserPromptSubmit with an empty matcher, then writes the settings file.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @telora/daemon@0.24.29.

- Avoid installing @telora/daemon@0.24.29. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## 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:** dist/update/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/update/self-update.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: */
L28: import { execFileSync, execFile } from 'node:child_process';
L29: import { existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
```

### 4. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/verify/attribution/verification-baseline-run.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L251: // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
L252: /** Spawn `sh -c command` in cwd and capture the FULL combined stdout+stderr and how it ended. */
L253: export function runShellCapture(command, cwd, timeoutMs) {
```

### 5. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/completion/team-progress/team-progress-measure.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/completion/team-progress/team-progress-measure.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L315: * 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
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 9. High: Runtime Package Install
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/update/self-update.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/update/self-update.js>)

Package source invokes a package manager install command at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: * 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';
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = scripts/telora-daemon-wrapper.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 1248
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. 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.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/audit/audit-phase.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/audit/audit-phase.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 41
```

### 15. Critical: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** dist/composition/execution-spawn-context.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/dist/composition/execution-spawn-context.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = @telora/daemon@0.24.25
matchedIdentity = npm:QHRlbG9yYS9kYWVtb24:0.24.25
similarity = 0.917
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 16. Critical: Known Malicious Dependency Insertion
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@telora/daemon@0.24.29/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
dependencies.@telora/mcp-products = ^0.23.14
previous = ^0.23.13
independentlyConfirmedMalicious = @telora/mcp-products@0.23.14 (lpm_ai_confirmed)
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 5
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 5
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5

### Published dependency entries
- @telora/daemon-core ^0.3.2 (Dependency)
- @telora/mcp-products ^0.23.14 (Dependency)
- commander ^14.0.3 (Dependency)
- yaml ^2.4.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.3.6 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @telora/daemon
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.24.29
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-21T13:53:31.434Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T22:49:27.720Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-22T00:33:13.654Z
- **Known versions:** 106
- **Latest version:** 0.24.36
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Agent orchestration daemon for Telora - spawns and manages Claude Code instances
- **Author:** Syntelyos
- **Keywords:** telora, agent, claude, claude-code, orchestration, ai-agent
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 3890
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,024,133 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@telora/daemon/v/0.24.29>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/syntelyos/telora.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/syntelyos/telora/tree/main/packages/daemon#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/syntelyos/telora/issues>)
