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@cotal-ai/cli@0.131.6
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged operations match CLI features: skill reconciliation is user-invoked and restricted to managed files, while telemetry is disclosed and can be disabled. No install hook or concrete attack chain was found.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Skill reconciliation runs through `cotal setup`; persona editing runs when requested; telemetry runs with CLI commands while enabled.
Impact
These operations have their described feature effects; no malicious behavior was found.
Mechanism
The CLI manages its authored skill files, launches the configured editor, and sends disclosed usage telemetry to Cotal.
AI rationale
The flagged operations match CLI features: skill reconciliation is user-invoked and restricted to managed files, while telemetry is disclosed and can be disabled. No install hook or concrete attack chain was found.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json~/.cotal/telemetry.json
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 manifest lists no install, preinstall, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
- Skill reconciliation is an explicit `cotal setup` feature and manages Cotal-authored skill files.
- Skill reconciliation backs up divergent files and limits writes and removals to managed SKILL.md files.
- Runtime telemetry is disclosed, can be turned off, and is sent to the package's own Cotal endpoint.
Evidence against
- The flagged shell execution launches the configured editor for an explicit persona-edit operation.
- The setup flow's optional global install is limited to running through npx without `cotal` on PATH; interactive use prompts first.
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@0.131.6.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.131.6 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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