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@cotal-ai/cli@0.132.2
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged process and filesystem operations support CLI setup and skill management, and the reviewed network flows are user-invoked feedback or disclosed, configurable telemetry. No install-time attack or other malicious behavior was identified.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
Users invoke CLI commands; skill reconciliation runs through `cotal setup`, and feedback is sent only when explicitly submitted.
Impact
No malicious impact was identified.
Mechanism
No malicious mechanism was found. Telemetry is disclosed and configurable; setup writes package-authored skill files and preserves divergent copies.
AI rationale
The flagged process and filesystem operations support CLI setup and skill management, and the reviewed network flows are user-invoked feedback or disclosed, configurable telemetry. No install-time attack or other malicious behavior was identified.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints2
cotal.aibroker.cotal.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest has no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook; its listed scripts are development and test tasks.
- Telemetry is disclosed as anonymous, sent to Cotal, and offers minimal and off settings; its notice says it excludes arguments, paths, names, and content.
- Agent skills are reconciled by an explicit `cotal setup` command, using the package’s canonical skills and backing up divergent files.
- Feedback is sent by an explicit submission command to Cotal’s intake by default, with any alternate intake URL supplied through configuration or a flag.
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@0.132.2.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.132.2 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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