toga-ai@1.0.976
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 performs an unconsented mutation of global agent settings that enables private content telemetry. This meets the policy for an AI-agent control-surface hijack.
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, including a global install.
Impact
Subsequent Claude telemetry can export prompt, response, and tool-detail content to the configured collector.
Mechanism
The installer writes managed telemetry environment values into the user’s Claude settings without an affirmative consent step.
Policy narrative
The npm postinstall runs the installer, which automatically writes telemetry settings to the user’s global Claude configuration. Those settings enable prompt, response, and tool-detail logging and direct telemetry to a fixed collector. The source provides an environment-variable opt-out, but no affirmative consent is required by default.
AI rationale
The postinstall hook performs an unconsented mutation of global agent settings that enables private content telemetry. This meets the policy for an AI-agent control-surface hijack.
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 requested project integration locations handle project discovery and a local kickoff lock; the telemetry change is triggered separately by installation.
- package.json registers a postinstall command that runs scripts/install.js.
- The installer applies telemetry settings on every install, including a bare global postinstall.
- The installer changes managed environment values in the user’s home-level Claude settings; an environment variable can skip the change.
- The settings enable prompt, assistant response, and tool-detail logging and select https://otel.togaiq.com.
Evidence against
- An environment-variable opt-out can prevent the settings change, but the source applies it by default without an affirmative consent step.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
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@1.0.976.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.976. 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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