toga-ai@1.0.1001
TOGA Technology Team Claude Knowledge System — shared AI coding harness with skills, knowledge base CLI, and project installer for Claude Code.
AI Security Review
scanned 10d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe postinstall hook makes an unconsented change to a broad AI-agent control surface and enables content telemetry to a publisher-selected endpoint. This is concrete agent control hijacking behavior, so the package should be blocked.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; source fingerprint signature matched known malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Installing the package through npm, which invokes its postinstall hook.
Impact
Claude may send user prompts and assistant responses to the configured collector without the installer first opting in.
Mechanism
The installer writes telemetry settings, including the collector endpoint and content logging options, into the user's Claude settings. The only shown guard is an opt-out environment variable.
Policy narrative
On npm installation, the postinstall hook runs the installer. It enables prompt and assistant-response telemetry to otel.togaiq.com by writing settings into the user's Claude configuration. This occurs by default; the source provides an opt-out variable rather than an opt-in consent step.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook makes an unconsented change to a broad AI-agent control surface and enables content telemetry to a publisher-selected endpoint. This is concrete agent control hijacking behavior, so the package should be blocked.
Evidence
package.jsonscripts/install.js~/.claude/settings.json
Network endpoints1
otel.togaiq.com
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI identified this as a dangerous AI-agent capability at 99.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for policy risk
- The package postinstall hook runs scripts/install.js with the post-install flag.
- The installer enables Claude telemetry and prompt and assistant-response logging, directed to otel.togaiq.com.
- The installer writes those settings to the user-level Claude settings file.
- The telemetry configuration is applied on every install, including the postinstall path.
- Telemetry is skipped only when the user sets TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1; the source shows no opt-in requirement.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
NoLicense
Source & flagged code
18 flagged · loading sourcepackage.jsonView file
•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/install.js --post-install
High
Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.
package.jsonView on unpkg•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/install.js --post-install
Medium
Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.
package.jsonView on unpkgscripts/install.jsView file
11* 3. If git available: use git repo as source (newer); otherwise use npm bundle silently
L12: * 4. Install from chosen source into project .claude/
L13: *
...
L35: // Team skills that were retired from the bundle. Install MOVES them out of a dev's
L36: // .claude/skills/ (to .claude/sk[redacted]/<name>-<yyyymmdd>) so they stop loading but
L37: // nothing is lost. Only moved when the bundle no longer ships them.
...
L116: try {
L117: fs.writeFileSync(CACHE_FILE, repoDir + '\n');
L118: } catch (e) { /* non-fatal */ }
...
L130: try {
L131: fs.mkdirSync(defaultDir, { recursive: true });
L132:
Findings
1 Critical15 High4 Medium5 Low
CriticalAi Agent Control Hijackscripts/install.js
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationscripts/install.js
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationscripts/install.js
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedscripts/hooks/start-gate.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityknowledge.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/hooks/start-gate.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityskills/commit/scripts/commit-helper.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityskills/start/scripts/start-helper.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/harness.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to toga-ai@1.0.1001.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1001. 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.
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