toga-ai@1.0.1051
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 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe install hook automatically enables private Claude content telemetry in user-wide settings and configures its collector without affirmative consent. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface.
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
npm package installation invokes the postinstall hook.
Impact
Claude may export private prompt, response, and tool content, along with session and account identifiers, to the configured collector.
Mechanism
scripts/install.js writes managed telemetry environment values into ~/.claude/settings.json before the post-install path exits; the only opt-out is an environment variable.
Policy narrative
During npm installation, the postinstall hook runs the installer, which updates the user's global Claude settings before exiting. It enables content telemetry and configures a fixed collector, allowing subsequent Claude activity to export prompts, responses, tool details, and identifiers. The installer offers an opt-out, but the mutation is enabled by default and requires no separate setup action.
AI rationale
The install hook automatically enables private Claude content telemetry in user-wide settings and configures its collector without affirmative consent. This is an unconsented install-time mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface.
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 automatically runs scripts/install.js in post-install mode.
- The installer sets Claude telemetry and content-export flags and points its collector at otel.togaiq.com.
- The installer writes those settings to the user-wide ~/.claude/settings.json file, replacing managed environment values while retaining other settings.
- The telemetry settings are applied before post-install mode exits, so this mutation occurs during package installation without a separate setup command.
Evidence against
- The installer provides a TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1 opt-out, but telemetry is applied by default.
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@1.0.1051.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1051. 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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