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@cotal-ai/cli@0.128.6
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged behavior is consistent with a CLI: disclosed telemetry goes to Cotal and can be disabled, feedback is an explicit command, and skill management is part of setup. The manifest has no install hooks, and the inspected code showed no unrelated credential or account action.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Telemetry runs on command exit; feedback and setup actions require invoking their respective commands.
Impact
No unauthorized credential disclosure, account action, or broader agent configuration change was identified.
Mechanism
Telemetry reports masked usage data to Cotal, feedback submits a user-provided report, and setup manages the CLI’s own agent skill files.
AI rationale
The flagged behavior is consistent with a CLI: disclosed telemetry goes to Cotal and can be disabled, feedback is an explicit command, and skill management is part of setup. The manifest has no install hooks, and the inspected code showed no unrelated credential or account action.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills
Network endpoints3
cotal.ai/v1/telemetrybroker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest points to dist/index.js and declares no install lifecycle scripts.
- The telemetry module describes command and daily install events, masks error details, and says it does not read argument values, paths, or names.
- Regular telemetry goes to https://cotal.ai/v1/telemetry and is disclosed with a setting to turn it off.
- Feedback sends only when its command is run and directs reports to the Cotal feedback intake.
- Agent skill management is a setup operation that manages only SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills, preserving divergent copies 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@0.128.6.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.128.6 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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