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@cotal-ai/cli@0.128.1
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 functions: telemetry is disclosed and can be disabled, agent skill writes occur through setup, and feedback and mesh connections require explicit commands. The reviewed sources show no concealed credential collection, unrelated account actions, or malicious install behavior.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Telemetry runs after CLI commands when enabled; setup, feedback, and join behavior runs when the corresponding command is invoked.
Impact
No malicious impact identified. Telemetry reveals some usage information, and setup writes Cotal-authored skill files under the user’s home directory.
Mechanism
Telemetry sends command usage data to Cotal; feedback submits the user’s feedback; joining connects to the selected mesh. Setup reconciles Cotal-owned skills in the agent skills directory.
AI rationale
The flagged behaviors align with the CLI’s stated functions: telemetry is disclosed and can be disabled, agent skill writes occur through setup, and feedback and mesh connections require explicit commands. The reviewed sources show no concealed credential collection, unrelated account actions, or malicious install behavior.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints3
cotal.ai/v1/telemetrybroker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 92.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes the CLI entry points and has no install lifecycle script.
- Runtime telemetry is disclosed, sent to Cotal’s telemetry endpoint, and can be disabled with `cotal telemetry off`.
- Telemetry errors are scrubbed; the code describes masking values and paths before sending error text.
- Agent skill files are reconciled only through the explicit `cotal setup` command, with writes limited to Cotal-owned skill files.
- Feedback submission and mesh joining are explicit commands, with user-provided content or destinations.
Evidence against
- Regular telemetry includes command names, outcomes, flags, and masked error details, which reveal some usage information.
- Setup can write Cotal-authored skill files under `~/.agents/skills`.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStrings
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@0.128.1.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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