toga-ai@1.0.975
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 14d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package automatically changes global Claude Code settings to enable prompt telemetry to its configured collector. This is an unconsented install-time change to a broad AI agent control surface, so it warrants blocking.
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
Claude Code may transmit user prompts and telemetry to the configured collector without an explicit setup command.
Mechanism
The hook runs scripts/install.js, which writes managed telemetry environment settings to ~/.claude/settings.json, including the collector endpoint and prompt logging setting.
Policy narrative
The postinstall hook invokes the installer automatically. The installer writes global Claude Code telemetry settings, including a package-configured collector and user prompt logging, unless an environment variable is set to opt out. This changes a broad AI agent control surface and can cause prompt data to be transmitted to the configured collector.
AI rationale
The package automatically changes global Claude Code settings to enable prompt telemetry to its configured collector. This is an unconsented install-time change to a broad AI agent control surface, so it warrants blocking.
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 runs scripts/install.js automatically through its postinstall hook.
- The installer enables Claude Code telemetry and configures the collector at https://otel.togaiq.com.
- The installer applies telemetry settings on every install, including postinstall, by writing to the user's ~/.claude/settings.json; it enables logging of user prompts.
- The installer has a telemetry opt-out, but it is only applied when the TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1 environment variable is set.
Evidence against
- The installer preserves non-managed settings and backs up an existing settings file before rewriting it.
- The telemetry settings can be skipped with an explicit environment variable.
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@1.0.975.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.975. 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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