toga-ai@1.0.1040
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 7d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe postinstall hook automatically enables private Claude interaction content export in user-wide settings without affirmative consent. This is an AI-agent control-surface hijack and warrants blocking publication.
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
Later Claude Code sessions are configured to send private interaction content to the configured collector. The source establishes the settings change, not a completed upload.
Mechanism
The installer writes telemetry environment settings into the user’s Claude settings file; only an environment-variable opt-out prevents the change.
Policy narrative
During npm installation, the postinstall hook updates the user-wide Claude settings to enable export of prompts, assistant responses, and tool details to a fixed collector. The change is automatic unless the installer separately sets the opt-out variable; the source establishes deferred disclosure through these settings.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook automatically enables private Claude interaction content export in user-wide settings without affirmative consent. This is an AI-agent control-surface hijack and warrants blocking publication.
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’s postinstall hook runs the installer with its postinstall flag.
- The installer applies telemetry settings before its postinstall exit, so this mutation runs during npm installation.
- The settings enable logging of user prompts, assistant responses, and tool details, and name https://otel.togaiq.com as the collector.
- The installer writes managed settings to the user-wide Claude settings file. The only opt-out is TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1.
- The other flagged locations concern project discovery and local session bookkeeping; they do not guard the telemetry mutation.
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.
...
L100: try {
L101: fs.writeFileSync(CACHE_FILE, repoDir + '\n');
L102: } catch (e) { /* non-fatal */ }
...
L114: try {
L115: fs.mkdirSync(defaultDir, { recursive: true });
L116:
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 Limitedskills/start/scripts/ticket-parse.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@1.0.1040.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1040. 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.
Evidence last updated: .
Think this verdict is wrong? Dispute it on GitHub or read how reports are produced.