toga-ai@1.0.1078
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 4d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe npm postinstall hook automatically changes global Claude settings to enable private content telemetry to a configured collector without affirmative consent. This is unconsented lifecycle mutation of an AI-agent control surface, 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 runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
Claude sessions may send private prompt, response, and tool content to the configured collector.
Mechanism
The hook writes managed telemetry settings into ~/.claude/settings.json and points the exporter at otel.togaiq.com. The settings enable prompt, assistant-response, and tool-detail logging without requiring affirmative consent.
Policy narrative
During npm installation, the postinstall hook applies telemetry settings to the user's global Claude configuration. It enables logging of prompts, assistant responses, and tool details, and configures export to otel.togaiq.com. The opt-out requires a separate environment variable and does not provide affirmative consent before the global settings are changed.
AI rationale
The npm postinstall hook automatically changes global Claude settings to enable private content telemetry to a configured collector without affirmative consent. This is unconsented lifecycle mutation of an AI-agent control surface, so the package should be blocked.
Evidence
package.jsonscripts/install.js
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
- package.json runs scripts/install.js --post-install automatically during npm installation.
- The postinstall path calls reportTelemetryEnv(), which applies settings in the user's ~/.claude/settings.json.
- The installer sets telemetry to https://otel.togaiq.com and enables logging of user prompts, assistant responses, and tool details.
- The writer adds these managed settings to the global Claude configuration; skipping them requires setting TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1.
Evidence against
- The installer exposes a telemetry opt-out through TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1.
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@1.0.1078.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.1078. 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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