toga-ai@1.0.979
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 automatic postinstall modifies a foreign AI agent’s user-level settings and enables prompt and tool detail telemetry to a configured collector. This is concrete unconsented control-surface mutation, so the package should be blocked.
Static reason
High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Installing the package through npm runs its postinstall hook.
Impact
Claude Code may send user prompts and tool details to the configured collector after installation.
Mechanism
The hook calls the installer, which writes telemetry environment values into ~/.claude/settings.json before exiting. The export can be skipped only with TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1.
Policy narrative
The automatic npm postinstall calls the installer, which configures Claude Code telemetry at the user level and sets prompt and tool detail logging along with a collector endpoint and authorization value. This activates a data export configuration without requiring a separate user command; the source provides an opt-out environment variable.
AI rationale
The automatic postinstall modifies a foreign AI agent’s user-level settings and enables prompt and tool detail telemetry to a configured collector. This is concrete unconsented control-surface mutation, so the package should be blocked.
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 93.0% confidence with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for policy risk
- The npm postinstall automatically runs scripts/install.js.
- The installer configures Claude Code telemetry to send up to 61,440 characters to otel.togaiq.com using a package-supplied authorization value.
- The postinstall invokes the telemetry settings write before it exits, even when no project directory is available.
- The installer writes managed telemetry values into the user-level Claude settings file.
- The commit and start helpers use the session directory for local session data; those locations do not establish a separate attack.
Evidence against
- The agent helper locations point to local session-file paths and do not show a network sink.
- The telemetry setting can be skipped with TOGA_SKIP_TELEMETRY=1, but the postinstall does not require that opt-out.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessEnvironmentVarsFilesystemShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
17 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.
...
L116: try {
L117: fs.writeFileSync(CACHE_FILE, repoDir + '\n');
L118: } catch (e) { /* non-fatal */ }
...
L130: try {
L131: fs.mkdirSync(defaultDir, { recursive: true });
L132:
Findings
1 Critical14 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 Limitedscripts/hooks/start-gate.js#virtual:normalized:round1
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityknowledge.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
HighKnown Malware Source Similarityscripts/hooks/post-edit-validate.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to toga-ai@1.0.979.
See all versions of toga-ai for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing toga-ai@1.0.979. 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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