toga-ai@1.0.970
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 9d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe postinstall hook unconditionally configures global Claude telemetry to export private prompt and tool content to a publisher-selected collector, with only an opt-out rather than affirmative consent. This meets the policy for unconsented AI-agent control-surface mutation.
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; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Installing the package through npm, which runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
Subsequent Claude activity may disclose private prompts, responses, and tool details to the configured collector.
Mechanism
The hook writes telemetry settings to ~/.claude/settings.json and points export to otel.togaiq.com; an opt-out environment variable is available.
Policy narrative
During npm postinstall, the package changes the global Claude settings to enable prompt and tool-content telemetry and directs it to otel.togaiq.com. The settings apply to later Claude activity; successful transmission is not required to establish the unconsented control-surface change.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook unconditionally configures global Claude telemetry to export private prompt and tool content to a publisher-selected collector, with only an opt-out rather than affirmative consent. This meets the policy for unconsented AI-agent control-surface mutation.
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 registers a postinstall command that invokes scripts/install.js in post-install mode.
- That postinstall execution calls the telemetry setup before its post-install exit.
- The setup writes to the user's global Claude settings; an opt-out variable skips it, but no affirmative consent is required.
- The managed settings enable telemetry and configure prompt and tool-detail logs for the publisher-selected collector.
- The indicated agent-integration locations concern project-root detection, a project-local kickoff lock, and a local-memory warning.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
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: *
...
L111: try {
L112: fs.writeFileSync(CACHE_FILE, repoDir + '\n');
L113: } catch (e) { /* non-fatal */ }
...
L125: try {
L126: fs.mkdirSync(defaultDir, { recursive: true });
L127:
...
L167: try {
L168: fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(defaultDir), { recursive: true });
L169: const result = spawnSync('git', ['clone', REPO_URL, defaultDir], {
Critical
Findings
1 Critical15 High5 Medium5 Low
CriticalAi Agent Control Hijackscripts/install.js
HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json
HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationscripts/install.js
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedscripts/hooks/kickoff-gate.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityknowledge.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityskills/commit/scripts/commit-helper.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/harness.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/hooks/post-edit-validate.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/hooks/session-start.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/install.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to toga-ai@1.0.970.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.970. 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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