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@cotal-ai/cli@0.121.4
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged behaviors align with the CLI’s stated purpose: disclosed, opt-out usage telemetry and user-invoked setup of its own agent skills. I found no install-time attack or unrelated credential or account activity in the reviewed paths.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Telemetry is armed during command dispatch and sent at process exit; skill files are reconciled by `cotal setup`.
Impact
No malicious behavior identified in the reviewed paths.
Mechanism
Telemetry posts usage and installation events to Cotal’s endpoint. Setup writes the package’s canonical skill files to the cross-vendor skills directory, with file-level ownership safeguards.
AI rationale
The flagged behaviors align with the CLI’s stated purpose: disclosed, opt-out usage telemetry and user-invoked setup of its own agent skills. I found no install-time attack or unrelated credential or account activity in the reviewed paths.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints1
cotal.ai/v1/telemetry
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 88.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes the CLI entry points and declares no install lifecycle hook.
- Telemetry is disclosed as anonymous usage data, masks values and paths in errors, and offers `cotal telemetry minimal` or `off`.
- The CLI arms telemetry when a command is dispatched; sends occur on process exit and telemetry failures are swallowed.
- Agent-skill reconciliation is part of the explicit `cotal setup` flow.
- The skill reconciler limits its writes to Cotal-owned `SKILL.md` files and protects existing divergent content with backups.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
7 flaggeddist/seed/reconcile.jsView file
1import { existsSync, renameSync } from "node:fs";
L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L3: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
dist/seed/reconcile.jsView on unpkg · L1dist/lib/persona-files.jsView file
274process.on(signal, pass);
L275: const child = program ? spawn(program, [draft], { stdio: "inherit" }) : spawn(`${editor} ${quoted}`, { shell: true, stdio: "inherit" });
L276: return new Promise(resolve => {
High
dist/lib/nats-bin.jsView file
Findings
1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/telemetry.js
HighChild Processdist/seed/reconcile.js
HighShelldist/lib/persona-files.js
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/lib/agent-skills.js
HighRuntime Package Installdist/commands/setup.js
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/commands/ext.js
MediumDynamic Requiredist/lib/nats-bin.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.121.4.
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