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@cotal-ai/cli@0.133.11
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 4d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-skill writes, npm install, and feedback POST are reachable through explicit CLI commands. The inspected code limits the skill reconciliation to Cotal-authored files and uses feedback data for the stated submission flow.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
The user runs cotal setup (including --skills), or explicitly submits cotal feedback.
Impact
These paths perform expected CLI setup and feedback functions; no malicious behavior was identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal-authored skill files under ~/.agents/skills and may offer or perform a global install of cotal-ai during an npx setup. Feedback posts the user-provided report to its configured intake.
AI rationale
The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-skill writes, npm install, and feedback POST are reachable through explicit CLI commands. The inspected code limits the skill reconciliation to Cotal-authored files and uses feedback data for the stated submission flow.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.aicotal.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 94.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest points to dist/index.js and has no preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook.
- The registered setup command exposes --skills; its handler runs the skill reconciliation only when setup is invoked with that flag.
- Skill reconciliation reads the package’s canonical skills and writes their SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills, backing up divergent existing content.
- The global npm install is for cotal-ai itself and is limited to an npx setup flow when cotal is not already on PATH.
- Feedback is a user-invoked command that sends the supplied report to the selected intake; the source contains no automatic credential or project-data collection flow.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
6 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
5 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
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@0.133.11.
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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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