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@cotal-ai/cli@0.128.2
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged process execution and agent-surface writes serve connector maintenance and explicit setup flows. Runtime telemetry is disclosed, scoped to command and runtime metadata with scrubbed errors, and can be turned off; the inspected source shows no malicious behavior.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Telemetry is armed during CLI command dispatch and sent on process exit when telemetry settings enable it; skill reconciliation runs through setup flows.
Impact
No malicious impact identified in the reviewed paths.
Mechanism
Telemetry targets https://cotal.ai/v1/telemetry and reports command/runtime metadata. Setup reconciles Cotal skills under ~/.agents/skills, limited to owned SKILL.md files.
AI rationale
The flagged process execution and agent-surface writes serve connector maintenance and explicit setup flows. Runtime telemetry is disclosed, scoped to command and runtime metadata with scrubbed errors, and can be turned off; the inspected source shows no malicious behavior.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints1
cotal.ai/v1/telemetry
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package has no install lifecycle scripts; its manifest exposes CLI entry points and standard build/test scripts.
- Runtime telemetry exits early when disabled or settings are unavailable, and sends to the declared Cotal telemetry endpoint when enabled.
- Telemetry reports package/runtime and platform details plus command names, outcomes, flags, and scrubbed error text; the source describes the collection and opt-out command.
- Cross-vendor skills are written by setup flows to the documented skills directory, with writes limited to Cotal-owned skill files.
Evidence against
- The source includes process execution and writes to AI-agent skill surfaces, but the inspected calls are for connector seeding and explicit setup behavior.
- The static hints do not establish an install-time data transfer or an automatic account action.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
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@0.128.2.
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