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@cotal-ai/cli@0.132.0
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 Skills writes serve CLI setup and extension management, with no install hook or hidden attack chain found. Runtime telemetry is disclosed and has an off setting; setup and feedback behavior is tied to user-run commands.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Telemetry is sent when a CLI command exits; skill reconciliation and optional global installation run through setup.
Impact
No malicious impact identified. Telemetry can be disabled, and setup’s file changes are limited to its managed skill files.
Mechanism
Telemetry posts documented usage events to Cotal’s service. Setup manages its shipped skill files, and the global install uses npm for the CLI package.
AI rationale
The flagged process execution and Agent Skills writes serve CLI setup and extension management, with no install hook or hidden attack chain found. Runtime telemetry is disclosed and has an off setting; setup and feedback behavior is tied to user-run commands.
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 96.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package manifest defines development scripts and no install lifecycle hook.
- Runtime telemetry is disclosed as anonymous, and the source says it avoids arguments, paths, names and content while masking error text.
- The CLI exposes telemetry settings for off, minimal or regular; the command event sends command and outcome data, with additional metadata at regular level.
- Skill reconciliation runs as part of an explicit setup flow and manages only Cotal’s SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills.
- The global npm install is a setup convenience offered when running through npx and no global cotal command is available.
Evidence against
- Regular telemetry sends command metadata and a daily install summary by default; the package provides an off setting.
- Setup can write Agent Skills into ~/.agents/skills when the user runs setup.
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@0.132.0.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.132.0 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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