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@cotal-ai/cli@0.129.7
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 6d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged agent configuration writes occur through the user's explicit setup command and are constrained to Cotal-authored skill files. Telemetry is disclosed, scrubbed, and can be reduced or disabled; feedback submission is explicit.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
The user invokes setup, feedback, or a CLI command that uses disclosed runtime telemetry.
Impact
No malicious behavior identified in the reviewed paths.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles authored skills in the agent skills directory; feedback submits user-provided content; telemetry sends disclosed, scrubbed usage data to Cotal.
AI rationale
The flagged agent configuration writes occur through the user's explicit setup command and are constrained to Cotal-authored skill files. Telemetry is disclosed, scrubbed, and can be reduced or disabled; feedback submission is explicit.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal
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
- Agent-skill reconciliation runs through the explicit `setup` command; `--skills` runs only that reconciliation.
- The skill manager limits writes to Cotal-authored `SKILL.md` files under `~/.agents/skills/` and documents symlink and hard-link safeguards.
- Runtime telemetry is disclosed, masks identifying values, and provides `minimal` and `off` settings.
- Feedback submission is an explicit command that sends the submitted feedback to the configured or Cotal intake.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
18 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
17 High4 Medium4 Low
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
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/telemetry.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/commands/up.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/lib/self-exec.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/lib/service-process.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/commands/ext.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/commands/setup-start.js
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.129.7.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.129.7 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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