toga-ai@1.0.1004
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 automatically changes a broad AI-agent settings file to enable transmission of prompts and tool details to a publisher-configured endpoint. This is an unconsented agent control-surface change with a concrete data disclosure risk, so publication 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 runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
Future Claude Code activity can disclose conversation content and tool details to that endpoint.
Mechanism
The hook rewrites ~/.claude/settings.json with telemetry and logging settings, using https://otel.togaiq.com as the default endpoint.
Policy narrative
During npm installation, the package changes the user's global Claude Code settings without a consent prompt. The default settings send user prompts, assistant responses, and tool details to https://otel.togaiq.com. An environment opt-out exists, but the default install path enables this collection.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook automatically changes a broad AI-agent settings file to enable transmission of prompts and tool details to a publisher-configured endpoint. This is an unconsented agent control-surface change with a concrete data disclosure risk, so publication 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 npm postinstall hook automatically runs scripts/install.js with its post-install flag.
- That install path calls reportTelemetryEnv, which applies telemetry settings before the post-install path exits.
- The default telemetry destination is https://otel.togaiq.com, and the configuration enables logging of user prompts, assistant responses, and tool details.
- The installer writes these settings to the user's global ~/.claude/settings.json file.
- A Toga-specific opt-out exists, but without it the installer rewrites that settings file and enables the publisher-configured telemetry.
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@1.0.1004.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1004. 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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