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@cotal-ai/cli@0.133.2
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 4d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged behaviors serve the CLI’s setup and extension-management purpose and are reached through user-run commands; reviewed setup writes are limited to Cotal-authored skills. The manifest declares no install lifecycle scripts, and no concrete malicious behavior was found in the inspected paths.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
Import registers commands; setup, extension management, feedback, and persona editing run when their respective commands are requested.
Impact
No unauthorized credential collection, unrelated network contact, or unrequested account action was found in the inspected paths.
Mechanism
The CLI writes its authored skill files to the documented skills directory, can install its own package globally during npx setup, and launches the user-configured editor for persona editing.
AI rationale
The flagged behaviors serve the CLI’s setup and extension-management purpose and are reached through user-run commands; reviewed setup writes are limited to Cotal-authored skills. The manifest declares no install lifecycle scripts, and no concrete malicious behavior was found in the inspected paths.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 94.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package exposes a CLI entrypoint that registers commands when imported; its manifest declares no lifecycle scripts.
- Agent skill files are reconciled only through the explicit `setup` command or `setup --skills`; the reconciler manages Cotal-authored skill files under `~/.agents/skills`.
- The global npm install runs only during an npx setup when the CLI is not already on PATH, and interactive setup asks before installing.
- Persona editing invokes the configured editor only when the explicit edit operation runs.
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@0.133.2.
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