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@cotal-ai/cli@0.131.1
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 are associated with user-invoked setup, and feedback is an explicit submission. Runtime telemetry is documented and can be disabled; the reviewed evidence does not show credential theft or unrelated automatic actions.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Explicit CLI commands: setup, feedback submission, and ordinary command completion for telemetry.
Impact
No malicious impact identified in the inspected paths.
Mechanism
Setup may reconcile the package's agent skill and offer a global npm install; feedback sends the submitted report; runtime telemetry sends documented usage events and can be disabled.
AI rationale
The flagged process execution and agent-skill writes are associated with user-invoked setup, and feedback is an explicit submission. Runtime telemetry is documented and can be disabled; the reviewed evidence does not show credential theft or unrelated automatic actions.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints3
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/telemetry
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 88.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package declares no lifecycle scripts; its main entry is the CLI module.
- Agent skills are copied to ~/.agents/skills by the explicit setup flow, with divergent files backed up and only managed SKILL.md files changed.
- The optional global npm install is offered only when setup runs under npx and the CLI is not already on PATH.
- Feedback transmission happens only when the feedback command is explicitly submitted; a configured key is sent to the intake URL.
- Runtime telemetry is documented as anonymous, can be disabled, and skips sending when telemetry is off.
Evidence against
- The CLI sends runtime telemetry to its own service, including command and install events.
- Setup can install the CLI globally when run through npx; in non-interactive mode it accepts the default yes.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
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@0.131.1.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.131.1 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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