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@cotal-ai/cli@0.130.0
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged process execution and agent-skill writes support explicit CLI setup and service-management actions. Telemetry is disclosed, sent to Cotal's own endpoint, and has settings to reduce or disable it.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Setup, explicit feedback submission, or a CLI command when telemetry is enabled.
Impact
Expected installation convenience, agent-skill setup, and disclosed usage reporting; no concrete malicious behavior was found.
Mechanism
Setup can install the CLI globally in an npx flow and reconcile Cotal-authored skills; runtime telemetry reports command metadata to Cotal's telemetry endpoint under the configured telemetry level.
AI rationale
The flagged process execution and agent-skill writes support explicit CLI setup and service-management actions. Telemetry is disclosed, sent to Cotal's own endpoint, and has settings to reduce or disable it.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
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 package exports its CLI entry points and declares no install lifecycle scripts.
- Global installation is offered only during an npx setup flow and uses a user confirmation prompt in interactive mode.
- Cross-vendor agent skills are reconciled by the setup command, which writes the package's canonical skill files.
- Skill reconciliation backs up divergent files and only manages its own SKILL.md entries.
- Runtime telemetry is sent to the package's own Cotal endpoint and is disclosed with settings to reduce it or turn it off.
- Telemetry sends command metadata at process exit when the effective telemetry setting is enabled.
Evidence against
- The CLI includes shell/process execution and writes files under the user's agent skills directory as part of its intended setup and service-management functions.
- The feedback command can read a protected key, but the inspected path is part of an explicit feedback submission flow.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVars
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@0.130.0.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.130.0 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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