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@cotal-ai/cli@0.132.5
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 5d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged capabilities serve the CLI's setup, extension, and feedback functions, and the reviewed paths tie them to user-invoked operations. No malicious install-time behavior, credential exfiltration, or hidden default account action was identified.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
An explicit `cotal setup`, feedback submission, or command that reconciles bundled connectors.
Impact
These actions can write agent skills, transmit feedback, or install bundled connectors as part of their stated functions; no unauthorized collection or unrelated execution was found.
Mechanism
Setup installs Cotal-authored skills, feedback sends a user-submitted report, and connector reconciliation stages bundled payloads for the CLI's extension installer.
AI rationale
The flagged capabilities serve the CLI's setup, extension, and feedback functions, and the reviewed paths tie them to user-invoked operations. No malicious install-time behavior, credential exfiltration, or hidden default account action was identified.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints2
broker.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 entry points are JavaScript modules; the manifest declares no install lifecycle scripts.
- The CLI describes its effects as occurring only after a validated invocation.
- Cross-vendor agent skills are reconciled by the explicit `cotal setup` flow.
- Feedback submission is an explicit command and sends one request without redirects or automatic retry.
- Connector seeding stages bundled payloads and invokes the CLI's own `ext add` command.
Evidence against
- Setup writes Cotal-authored skills into `~/.agents/skills`, a directory read by multiple AI-agent harnesses.
- The feedback command can send a configured feedback credential and report details to `broker.cotal.ai`.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
7 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
1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/commands/up.js
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
MediumDynamic Requiredist/lib/nats-bin.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.132.5.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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