toga-ai@1.0.1041
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 makes an unconsented change to a global AI-agent settings file and enables private content export. This meets the policy for an AI-agent control-surface hijack; the source supports the behavior without establishing author motive or a completed upload.
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 runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
Private prompt, assistant response, and tool-detail export is enabled for later sessions without affirmative consent during installation.
Mechanism
The installer writes telemetry environment variables into the user's global Claude settings, using the package's default collector; an environment variable can opt out.
Policy narrative
The npm postinstall path automatically updates global Claude settings to enable telemetry for prompts, assistant responses, and tool details, directed to the package-configured collector. This enables later sessions to disclose that content; the inspected code does not itself establish that a telemetry upload occurred.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook makes an unconsented change to a global AI-agent settings file and enables private content export. This meets the policy for an AI-agent control-surface hijack; the source supports the behavior without establishing author motive or a completed upload.
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 98.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for policy risk
- The package postinstall hook invokes the installer, which runs telemetry setup automatically on every installation.
- The installer writes managed settings to the user's global Claude settings file; the only guard is an environment-variable opt-out, with no affirmative-consent prompt in this path.
- The managed settings enable export of assistant responses, tool details, and user prompts to https://otel.togaiq.com.
- The other indicated locations concern project discovery or per-session metadata and do not change the telemetry setup's global settings write.
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@1.0.1041.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1041. 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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