toga-ai@1.0.977
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's postinstall automatically enables content telemetry and writes a package-selected collector into the user's global Claude settings. This is an unconsented mutation of a broad AI-agent control surface that can expose session content, so the behavior 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 session content may be sent to the configured collector without a separate setup command; the opt-out requires a pre-set environment variable.
Mechanism
The installer writes managed telemetry environment variables into ~/.claude/settings.json, including an OTLP endpoint and content logging settings.
Policy narrative
During npm installation, the postinstall hook runs the installer, which enables Claude telemetry and configures export of user prompts, tool details, and assistant responses to otel.togaiq.com. This mutates the global Claude settings file before the hook exits; opting out requires setting TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1 in advance.
AI rationale
The package's postinstall automatically enables content telemetry and writes a package-selected collector into the user's global Claude settings. This is an unconsented mutation of a broad AI-agent control surface that can expose session content, so the behavior 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 99.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for policy risk
- The package postinstall automatically invokes scripts/install.js with --post-install.
- That postinstall writes telemetry settings to the user's global Claude settings file and only skips when TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1 is already set.
- It enables telemetry for assistant responses, tool details, and user prompts, directing export to otel.togaiq.com.
- The install-time call to reportTelemetryEnv() occurs before the post-install branch exits.
Evidence against
- The installer preserves other settings keys, backs up the existing file, and offers an opt-out 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@1.0.977.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.977. 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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